In the last post I shared some train sketches of passing landscapes out the window, but you'll know I'm just as likely to be drawing what's going on inside the train carriage - i.e. the other passengers. Here's a few recent. Before the rise of smart phones, there was a bit more variation of activity, and hence more interesting poses for obsessive scribblers like me - more people reading books/newspapers, writing, staring out of the window, or even talking to other passengers! Now it seems the...

I've been out and about over the last few weeks, here's some recent sketches through train windows. Often, I've been in carriages either too crowded to easily manoeuvre myself to draw other passengers, or mostly empty with nothing to draw other than the landscape rushing past. So here’s some glances of the East English countryside. You might be wondering how I can sketch anything when the train is flashing past so quickly, but countryside landscapes can be quite repetitive when seen from rail...

Dear friends, It's another scorching summer in these parts. Wherever you are, stay cool and have a splashing time! いよいよ本格的な夏の到来ですね！ 身を守って、涼しくして、水しぶき時間をたのしんでください！ Well readers, you may have noticed it's been quite a while since I updated this blog. It's a symptom of a wider disillusionment I had with social media as a whole over the last few years (due to the increasingly maverick actions of Zuck, Musky, and the AI robber barons). The explosion of generative AI was the big one - fearful of AI...