Sketchbook Update 105 (Patreon)

I'm onto a new sketchbook, and I thought it'd be fun to do another stack photo, it's creeping higher! This is all of my personal sketchbooks from 2012 onwards, the summer before university when I started numbering them! (I was 19) so its … 14 years worth! This is sketchbook number 34.

I decorated a bit differently this time, making card collectors weep by cutting up pokemon cards and gluing cigarette cards that I think matched them.

Some haybales I really felt looked very…private? Serious? I'm really pleased with how this turned out, the unsuitable watercolour paper meant the brushstrokes are very alive and kinda smeary in a good way.

Doing plein air and then trying to take a photo reminds me of why I do it. What I can see is always so much different from how the photo turns out. Those minty green shadows were nowhere to be seen.

Castle Howard! My mum likes to take me to National Trust places, and I am not complaining. The algae was beautiful, I want to try drawing it more.

A day trip to Scarborough! I had a little dream checklist in my head (arcades, waffles, beach, fish and chips, dragon boats) and we did all of them which was honestly pretty amazing. Peasholme Park has these great dragon pedal boats, and a little orchestra in a bandstand on the lake, its very cute.

I'm wearing the same clothes...I just noticed. Lmao. That shirt is falling apart and I'm gutted, I've had it for ten years!

Absolutely laden with fruit, vegetables, and pickles this month.

  I deliver the parish newsletter, which means I talk to a lot of people, and I mentioned to an old couple that their courgettes were looking great- and they gave me one, along with some cucumber pickles! After that I ran into two sweet gossipy old ladies I'm friends with who were going to the pub to celebrate their hard gardening morning and they bought me a half pint. I also looked after a neighbours garden when she was away and was told to pick blackberries, cucumber and tomatoes. Riches.

And also! For walking a friends dog I was gifted veg from her allotment- spinach, carrots and runner beans. They were so beautiful I wanted to paint them before they got eaten!

I've never cooked runner beans before and it was amazing. We boiled and then fried them in butter onion and garlic.

My pastel collection grows...that little elephant was in a supermarket at half price, and I was insanely lucky- I didn't love any of the other options and I got the one I really wanted. Forever weak to blue and baby themes lol. I'm trying not to buy into to the rapidly increasing blind box industry too much because at the end of the day its all landfill, but when I see them in real life…hard mode.

I've been playing Fields of Mistria, Peak, and Big Walk lately! I feel spoiled for choice at the moment and I'm also so excited for Ocarina remake…Links design is sooo cute. Pinches his cheeks. Aa.

Josie making some excellent shapes.

It's autumn finally, I'm very excited for soup and jumpers and picking fruit, the period between October and November is my FAV so I'm very hyped. I hope the weather is good and I can paint a lot.

the blackberries are actually finished now but. the photo vibes are good... forgive me.

I hope you all have a good month or so!

Thanks for the support <3