Equipment

I won £50 on a local lottery recently and spent the lot on paper.  It's not that much paper as it happens, not when the paper is hot pressed Fabriano.  Whenever I make an order from +Jackson's Art Supplies I add on a few coloured pencils (to make the postage worthwhile).  Most of my art stuff is gathered along the way.  I buy sketchbooks at The Cube, pencils and brushes from the shop in Folkestone's Old High Street, a feather from the garden, a magnifying glass from Specsavers.
We have a new lady in class.  She arrives and sets up a very posh big magnifying glass on a stand.  It has a row of LED lights.  Then she stacks up her black zipped cases of pencils and brushes.  There are four of them, identical and pristine.  She has a plastic storage box - not a rejected tupperware job like mine, but a proper affair with trays and drawers.  She comes and goes with a small suitcase on wheels to carry all her gear.  At home she has a workshop in which to artisticate.  I have a small table squeezed between the spare bed and the window, and a daylight lamp from Amazon.  No wonder the bed is strewn with materials and work in progress.
I think I shall start referring to the spare room as 'my studio'.

Working on three pictures in my 'True Facts From Nature' series (see +Rory McEwen ).  One is from our garden, one from Monk's House, Rodmell - home of Virginia Woolf - and the third is from Toby and Zenah's garden.  Also on the go - 'Seed shells' in ink.  Wish I had more time though.  The dark evenings are a struggle even with my daylight lamp.