Brian's Notebook

Sketched at Pretoria Botanical Gardens. HB pencil on printer paper, size A5:

An empty mustard jar and penny whistle. Couldn't quite capture the metallic look of the whistle's tube. lots of other problems I can...

Let's see if Blogger will let me post pictures now. Two recent still life setups, neither really particularly successful:

Here we go again: I try to upload a picture to the blog, but the software simply flatly refuses. Well, I'll give blogger a day or two to...

I have been struggling to draw this particular cultivar of apple ("Royal Gala"- they are difficult to draw but absolutely deliciou...

Battled a bit with this one, but I think I did learn the one and other. For example, if you want white objects to look like they are white i...

About A5 in size; HB mechanical pencil on printer paper: