Just couldn't resist this - enjoy!!

Bummer!

my laptop has died again, and is going back for repair :(

so no posts for the foreseeable future - sooooo frustrating!!

BUT i do have my new artists brush pens to play with and this fun book to explore, so i won't be idle :)

hope to be back soon...

Virtual Coffee Tuesday

Welcome to my first Virual Coffee Tuesday :)

A couple of weeks ago i discovered Amy over at

Lucky Number 13 and grabbed a button (it's over on my right sidebar, but this the first time i've remembered it - on a Tuesday!! i think it's a great idea to meet with blog friends over a virtual coffee, and Tuesday's as good a day as any...

sooooo, what have you been up to this week?

How's the family/ your work/ your health/ the cat/ the dog/ the budgie....??

Seen any good movies lately?

We all enjoyed this on DVD over the weekend - really funny and only a 12 rating, so we could all enjoy it :)

my kids are 15 and 13, which makes choosing family films quite difficult...

What else....

ooooh! i picked up a real bargain this week on ebay...

i've been coveting these for months and months, but at anywhere from £70--£115, i wasn't going to get them anytime soon :(

but lo and behold, someone was selling their set on ebay, barely used, and i won them for half the price of amazon's!! they arrived safely yesterday, and when i've played with them some more, i'll post some pictures... they have beautiful brush tips, which just glide over the paper *sigh*

also, in yesterday's mail was the lastest issue of this beauty! i know i've waxed lyrical about it before, but it truly is a joyful treasure and i can't praise it enough :)

Well, that's maybe a long enough post... and i've finished my coffee... it was really lovely to meet you, and i'll hope to see you same time, same place next Tuesday...

i'll save you a seat :)

Monday Music

this is the first time i've embedded a video, so we'll see how it goes...

i'm loving the Big C - thursdays on More4 - Laura Linney is one of my favourite actors.

last week i managed to catch who's doing the theme tune, and the Leftover Cuties are fun - my kind of music! sadly they don't have a physical CD to buy yet, but i hope they will have soon...
enjoy :)

Sunday sketch

reading shirley's post at paper and threads, i remembered i did this figure exercise - completing the other side of a face - back in the summer. it's a great way to learn the placings/proportions of a face's features. it's drawn with ordinary coloured pencils - i'd thought they were watercolour pencils, and tried to blend them over the cheek - oops!

the image is from an old toast catalogue. i adore their clothes (and housewares) and keep all their catalogues - beautiful images, wonderfully produced - and the models are beautiful!

Friday Fun: Spot the original :)

Finally, i've got my laptop back!! the nasty noise was a rattly CPU fan - it's been oiled, but may need replacing if it rattles again... still, much cheaper than a new laptop *phew*

i said i'd been drawing :)

playing with copying some favourite artists...

here's van gogh's landscape with cottages - it's on the cover of a great book Van Gogh: The Master Draughtsman

and my take - drawn while half-listening to the footbal commentary...

it's very freeing to just follow the flow of another's vision, but you do have to concentrate to imitate their pen/brush strokes.

Quick hello

i'm borrowing my daughter's laptop as mine is in the repair shop :(
still waiting to hear if it's terminal - it certainly didn't sound good when the hard drive crashed!!
hence no posts or pictures since last week - for some reason i can't post from my husband's computer *weird*
but just to let you know, i'm still here and still drawing...