"Inside the box": yellow

 "Indian Yellow" is one of my go-to tubes of paint. Here it celebrates the new flower on the peace lily, inside an amoxycillin box -

Something new...

...this is the first time I used packaging from a vaping product; since then I've picked up dozens from the road. They usually open quite cleanly and are a good size; a series is growing...

This shape used to be a punnet holding tomatoes - turned upside down, it (or its cousin) looks rather like a kimono -

In this box were chocolate eclairs -

More vaping boxes, auditioning for parts in the chorus line -

A King Oscar sardines box -

"Inside the box"

Drawing on recycled packaging that has been opened out. My first attempt, on a box that held chocolate ginger biscuits, was unspectacular - the waxy surface of the box repelled the ink, leaving tiny dots of a very pale grey.

Solid backgrounds, like these sketchbook drawings, were what I was aiming for - 

This box had a hole cut in the shape of a fish - it wrapped smoked salmon -

...the fish is camouflaged among the leaves ...

Another house plant; inside a box of cough syrup

In my window box, cyclamens with seedheads had survived till June - 

Transforming a tissue box -

... with two background colours...

More to come! Since June I've been producing several of these every week. Drawing is with a sharpie and the paint is either acrylic ink or watercolour.

Chair du semaine

 Judy and I agreed to draw something every week, but what - ok, a chair. There's always a chair around somewhere, waiting to be drawn. 

Armchair Traveller

A little book made with maps of different floors of

the V&A - I couldn't find an old atlas to cut up. A good

museum is comparable to an exotic trip

Book of the chair

It's tiny and I wasn't careful about fitting the

chair on the page. Perhaps should have persevered

and put some part of a chair on all pages...

In Aladdin's Cafe [cave, geddit?]

The coffee shop has an "antique" shop attached - actually

the antique shop was there first, and the cafe was added. The 

chairs and tables change regularly. I'd just has flu and booster

jabs, and used the info leaflet to draw on 

Yesterday

 Just another lovely day. I'd done nearly 15K steps at the end of it, and wasted a lot of time in the charity shops of Crouch End as part of the walk. Walking round the neighbourhood seems to need some sort of purpose...

In the morning, though - painting a couple of geometry patterns -

Then off to the doctor for flu jab and covid booster - when I left  it was raining, so I ducked into the nearest cafe, Aladdin's Cafe, which has a junk shop attached, to wait it out. Drew a few chairs, very quickly -

Back in the studio late afternoon, greeted by a rainbow -

And later, arrival of my son after a day in the woodwork shop, using their big machines to cut stuff etc and take it all back to the next job in Cheltenham. We went to Korean/Japanese restaurant Dotori for a quick bite. Probably my last tempura, deep fry has unwelcome after-effects....

And so to bed.

Trees, trees, trees

 Recent drawings; water-soluble pencils and/or ink.