Scribbly

Our week 2 holiday house, Le Bourg, St Projet. Drawn with a superb scribbly ballpoint, whose kind donor was subsequently - accidentally - locked in the cellar, mid foreground. Apologies again.

Another Point of View

A quiet, hot morning in the Tarn Gorges last week. Vultures sliding past on the thermals. Drawn between coffee and lunch in Japanese album Moleskine.

A Point of View

From the Saut de la Mounine viewpoint over the Lot. Favourite cycle routes and La Paregude visible. Beneath our feet clear air and sand martins.

Najac

Najac Castle. Rain and sun alternating. Drawn from restaurant terrace towards the end of two weeks on the Lot and Aveyron. A theatre troupe were dining next to us, preparing to wrap themselves in clingfilm and comedically demonstrate the liberation of a generation of French women. Nearby a parent admonished his child that clingfilm should never be wrapped around the head. 'Jamais, jamais, jamais.'

Cloud shadow, plane shadow

Road to Coveney

Big cloud shadows from the back road to Coveney. The fullness of May.

When in doubt, I remind myself - DRAW.

Browsing at the Sketchbook Project, Brooklyn

Down under Manhattan Bridge

Tokyo 2004

Sekiguchi, Tokyo, 2004.

Casa Mezcal

Bottles and ephemera at Casa Mezcal, Orchard Street. The haze of happiness accompanying this lunch momentarily confused me geographically. Manhattan, not Brooklyn.

Chrysler Building from Empire State

Very cold and windy on the Empire State Building. Ice and snow on the observation deck.

Cutting a block

After a gap of some six years - and now in possession of some decent 9mm birch ply - it's good to be cutting a woodblock again. Therapeutically calming once the shavings start to fly...