Went to Dorset last weekend and camped overnight at Langton Matravers near Swanage.This was the view from my tent at about 8am. towards the ridge above Swanage and then out across Studland bay towards Bournemouth.
If ever you come to England this is an area well worth a visit with loads of opportunities for artistic endeavour!
Castles coast and amazing views.
Pen and watercolour

This is the graveyard at Week ST Mary Cornwall.
Drawn from a photo taken just before sunset the flash gun illuminated the gravestones but left the hedge dark because of their distance from the flash.
Had some trouble when I tried to use some masking fluid on damp paper then rubbed it off taking the face of the paper with it!! Had to make the disaster look like damage to the surface of the nearest stone,I think it worked OK for the internet but in the flesh its a bit more obvious.On dry paper the masking fluid works fine.
The gravestones really are tilted over at this crazy angle they’ve been there 150 years or so.

St Mary the Virgin Church at Week St Mary on the Devon Cornwall Border. This was early Morning sitting in the shadow of a large tree on a memorial bench.It was chilly.
There were several rooks about calling and this heightened the atmosphere of this rugged looking Cornish Churchyard.
I cannot remember the rhyme that tells you if they were rooks or crows. I think it goes:- if you see a rook its a crow and if you see several crows they are rooks!
I seem to have done a few religious things lately, purely by coincidence!

WW2 Bomber dropping a mine in a canal at night.

A view of the Market Hotel in Reigate [Surrey England]. From the top of the tunnel over the road below which is now a pedestrian area.There cave entrances in the tunnel below.The caves were originally mines used to get building stone, they run under the old Castle, [the grounds of which I was sitting in to do this].The caves have been used as ammunition stores during the war and wine bars etc since then, they are now closed to the public.I remember my dad driving us through this tunnel on the way to Brighton when I was a kid.

A 1930s type advert for Jelly.My entry for the July theme challenge of desserts. First attempt at combining photoshop and a drawing!!

Faithfull old Roberts radio that sits on our kitchen table.
It has a lovely sound being made of wood and not plastic.Its seen some action over the years hence the missing carrying strap!
This is an attempt at the Tomlinson style hope Joe does not mind.
Using Pitt pens and Letraset manga markers for the red,I did not think they would go through but they did and onto the next page as well! So be careful folks if you use these.

My entry for Junes challenge Sanctuary! The actual stained glass window is of a Bishop of Chichester commemorated in Berwick church Sussex.I hope he does not mind me taking a few liberties with his reading material! It may give him a few different answers to the problems of the world than the original he holds in the church, who knows.
Water colour pencils Faber and Castell tech. pen, pencil and brush pen

Drawing of a wall in Berwick church in West Sussex, this was painted by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell who decorated the inside of the church, some parts were done at a later date by her son.
Vanessa bell was Virginia Woolfs sister.
They were the people at the center of the Bloomsbury group of artists.They lived at a farmhouse just down the road called Charleston [for65 years in all].The inside of the house is decorated top to bottom by them as well, a place well worth a visit its fantastic and so are the gardens.
Reading a book about this group at the moment very bohemian and alternative in their art and relationships!!Their connections read like a who’s who of the early 20th century art and literary world, a great friend of theirs who also spent a lot of time at Charleston was Maynard Keynes.
My family has a very distant tie with this group as my wife is related to the artist Harold Gilman who was a friend of Walter Sickert of the Camden group who influenced the Bloomsbury group.

Outwood windmill, Surrey, England.
Nice old windmill beside the green at Outwood,watercolour sketch in watercolour Moleskine.