Brian's Notebook

 At least for the moment, I have decided to tone down all efforts at producing or selling marketable work. It's much more fun doing what...

Sketches, mostly birds, in ballpoint pen and colored pencil:

I have been taking a break from painting in order to study up on some aspects of art that have always eluded me. How long I'll be busy w...

After an evening storm, another batch of fallen leaves and blooms. Ballpoint pen and watercolor pencil on paper:

Autumn in the southern hemisphere. I have long loved weathered late-season leaves, and this time of year there is such a glut one doesn'...

I went out into the garden, and sketched whatever caught my eye. Ballpoint pen with watercolor pencil.

I have been rather busy, getting my latest children's book ready for publication. It's the first one with lots of color pictures, so...

I have been rather busy drawing illustrations for the latest children's book I'm working on. In between, made time for the Instagram...

A few more sketches for the Instagram "100 heads" challenge thing: And some more illustrations for my latest children's b...

Another batch of illustrations for my soon-to-be-available children's book The Garden Gnome's Journey . Watch this space for updates...

Studies of marabous: And a helicopter: Pen and watercolor on printer paper.

Some more random sketches in ballpoint pen and watercolor, on printer paper:

Some sketches in watercolor on printer paper (which works perfectly fine for watercolor sketching, if you don't mind a bit of warping an...

In the  previous part  of this project, I worked on the page layout of my fake parchment. For the next part, the instructor wanted students ...