Out with the old, in with the new.

Or, as Elvis once sang, "the future looks bright ahead".

Who knows where the time goes?

It is one year since the publication of my first book, “46 Contemporary Poems in Various Styles”.

It’s been a year of sketchbooks, keeping my Twitter / X page active, as a place to promote my book and my art. One might say it’s been a year of promotions. But it’s also been a year, at least the last few months, of starting my second book. And this I have done.

So, I’m thinking the New Year is going to be in need of a new blog. The blog you are reading now is totally public. The new blog won’t be for a while yet.

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#Sketchbook November.

 

Top to bottom: Parliament Oak, the Major Oak, a witch, and Byron's Oak (only the stump remains).

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#Sketchbook October.

 

A woolly hat might be a good idea in the cold weather, but perhaps not in blue...

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#Sketchbook September.

Sketchbook pages from my walks around Thoresby Park.

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Twitter / X musings.

 

More Twitter / X silliness. The challenge was to interpret a famous art work.

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Aliens.

 

Some silliness on Twitter / X, when I know I really should be writing. This is the problem with social media, even when one is not really sociable. The urge to get noticed overrides all sense.

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My garden.

 

Top: If garden benches could only speak, what stories they could tell.

Bottom: I had to replace the heavy stone with an alternative arrangement in my tree-stump sculpture.

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Spring 2024.

 

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Looking at things a different way.

 

 Bored (for a while) with observational drawing, I decided on marker pens, imagination, cardboard sheets, and see what happens.

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Landscapes in March.

 

March is my favourite month. The bleakness of January and February hopefully passed.

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