Brian's Notebook

Two small paintings in the post-impressionist style. Oil on canvas board, 10 x 10 cm ( 4 x 4 inch).

I have been trying to use bold, black charcoal outlines to create something of an expressionist style. I have seen extremely detailed, refin...

Compound leaf of a carob tree ( Ceratonia siliqua ). As I mentioned before, I just love old, well weathered leaves as subjects for drawing! ...

Back to my series of drawings from direct observation. I have become badly rusty, I fear.

Found a whole carpet of these colourful flowers under a tree. I have no idea what kind of tree, but they made for a nice subject for a few s...

Saw two somewhat unusual things today. The first, a halo around the Sun, which I photographed from two different sides of a building, trying...

HB mechanical pencil on printer paper, 18cm x 12cm: