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Once a bookseller, always booky, so you'll see some of that here. Also trained in horticulture. Now making art among other things. UK

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angerj@angerj· 27d

Collected from the #library today. I've been meaning to read this since it came out.

Photo of the front cover of a book, Nation of Strangers: rebuilding Home in the 21st Century by Ece Temelkuran.

Photo of the back cover of a book, Nation of Strangers: rebuilding Home in the 21st Century by Ece Temelkuran.

angerj@angerj· Jul 17

Trying to simplify an enticing view that in the end proved too complex!

Four thumbnail sketches of the same scene, but progressively simplified. Looking through and under a parasol umbrella down a garden path with a washing line on the left.

angerj@angerj· Jul 15

Well this is exciting. A delivery from @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social of a book about Lois Dodd, an artist I've only just recently read about. Her life and work look inspiring.

A photo of a book about Lous Dodd, by Faye Hirsch. The cover depicts a painting of the side of a building clad in wooden shingles, with a single window.

angerj@angerj· Jul 12

The local reservoir again, using just one tool for each drawing.

A drawing of a line of trees beyond which is a reservoir, with distant trees and hills in the background. Graphite pencil.

A drawing of a line of trees beyond which is a reservoir, with distant trees and hills in the background. Blue Inktense pencil.

angerj@angerj· Jul 7

Just playing, while it's too hot to be outside, while watching the tennis....

Photo of an A4 sketchbook page with a drawing of a base of flowers on a green background. Neocolor Aquarelle crayons.

angerj@angerj· Jul 2

Textures, textures. So tricky to be restrained.

Sketch of a house roof with trees around and shrubs in front.

Drawing of trees and shrubs with fence behind.

angerj@angerj· Jul 1

Mmmm, here's a puzzle. Lots of my ripe pink gooseberries have been picked off the bush and the seeds eaten, leaving the flesh lying on the ground. Never happened before. Mice? Fruit was netted. # gooseberries #orchards 🌱🌱

A photo of gooseberry halves lying on the ground, the seeds having been neatly extracted.

angerj@angerj· Jun 24

On not having edges....

Small A5 pencil drawing of, from left to right, a bowl and vase and then a jug and lidded pot.

Small A5 'scribble drawing of the same items.

angerj@angerj· Jun 18

Been up in a high rocky place to loosen up. Artgraf, ink, some pastel. #humanmadeart

An A4 sketchbook open to A3. Loose landscape.

An A4 sketchbook open to A3. Loose landscape with rocks.

angerj@angerj· Jun 14

Immersed I am. Ali Smith is one of our finest writers.

Photo of a book on a bedspread. The book is Glyph by Ali Smith. The cover is cardboard with a semi-circle cut out. Through this you can see a horse's head.

angerj@angerj· Jun 11

It's been raining all day. I could do cleaning but instead I've been cropping and adding to some ink drawings. Small studies of the local reservoir. Ink and pastel.

Photo of a small drawing. Trees in the foreground with a blueish reservoir in the mid ground. The far bank has more trees and in the distance is the haze of distant landscape.

Another small study of the same reservoir.

angerj@angerj· Jun 2

I had great fun on the London Drawing Group class on gestural drawing. 30 second and 2-3 minute drawings.

angerj@angerj· Jun 1

Textures...

Photo of the rocks on top of a dry stone wall with the bark of a tree behind.

Photo of a dry stone walk in front and a tree behind.

angerj@angerj· May 27

Tickets are now on sale for the Penzance LitFest, taking place from 7-11 July. pzlitfest.co.uk

A montage of photos of authors appearing at the festival.

angerj@angerj· May 18

I've been looking forward to reading this so much. Collected today from my local #library.

Photo of the book The Given World by Melissa Harrison. The cover illustration is of an abstracted bird, head down. Images of landscape appear within the shape of the bird.

angerj@angerj· May 16

It's May, so I'm learning about greens with artist Jo Blaker. Mixing, matching, playing with grounds and combinations.

Photo of my art desk showing various workings out of colour swatches in sketchbooks. There is an assortment of art materials on the table too. Top left shows part of the 'greenish' composition I was drawing.

angerj@angerj· May 10

The greens. Discovering raw umber and raw sienna. Gouache. #humanmadeart

Photo of an A4 sketchbook page with a roughly painted sketch of a landscape. Trees in the middle distance.

angerj@angerj· May 5

The froth of hawthorn and cow parsley is a wonder....

Photo of a single hawthorn tree in flower just over the brow of a hill in which cow parsley's white froth of flowers has been encouraged to thrive.

angerj@angerj· May 4

We're looking at greens this month with artist Jo Blaker. They are so elusive. Most premade greens are not great. It'll be good to make time to look and swatch the grey greens, the blue greens, the apple greens etc. Suspect layering and mixing will be key.

A piece of white paper is on the table, with several green leaves laid on it. Above the paper on the table is a selection of green drawing media.

angerj@angerj· Apr 29

This month our theme for Jo Blaker's Scribbles in the Sky sessions has been people. It's been great fun. Next month, the theme is Green.#humanmadeart

A4 sketchbook with a paint study of a figure with her left shoulder angled slightly towards us. Background is yellow. The figure is painted in blues.

A4 sketchbook study of a woman in a colourful swimsuit. Blues, oranges and pink.

2 Monoprints in blue, one very scribbly of a woman dancing and the other a line based drawing of a woman's face. She has her hair up.

angerj@angerj· Apr 23

Currently reading Wild Cities by Chris Fitch. Inspiring, realistic.

Photo of the book cover depicting urban blocks of flats, foliage.

angerj@angerj· Apr 22

I need to draw more clouds. They are so endlessly interesting. These are from my month of drawing them in January.

A pencil drawing of mostly clouds. Some trees in the foreground.

Another pencil drawing of mostly clouds, this time with a hill in the foreground. Intimations of trees on the horizon.

angerj@angerj· Apr 20

Have finally found a way to loosen up when drawing a local landscape. Monoprint.

Monoprint in blue ink of a roughly drawn landscape with trees on the skyline and some scrubby trees in the left foreground.

Monoprint in blue ink with some young trees on the skyline and in the left foreground.

Monoprint in blue ink of a very roughly drawn fence in the foreground, which curves from right to left and then round to the right again in the middle ground, around a field. Rough trees and sky in background. Grasses etc in foreground.

angerj@angerj· Apr 16

Some talk of a mass bot attack. They are on it.

angerj@angerj· Apr 7

Photo of garden trees, their branches picked out by morning light.

angerj@angerj· Apr 5

My day with the cloudscape. Magnificent.

A photo of a gently rolling Wolds landscape with fields, hedges and trees in the fore and middle ground. A large expansive blue sky is full of well defined white and grey clouds.

angerj@angerj· Apr 3

Using up some wet media (Artgraf) with #collage. I like the tones and colour mixing experiments. #Humanmade

Photo of a sketch book with a 4 panelled fold out page, on which I'v collaged and painted an abstracted trees etc.

angerj@angerj· Mar 31

At the orchestra. Just working up some ideas.

Photo of 2 wet media studies, both being an impressionistic study of the shapes, colours and movements. Broadly, cellos on the right, violins etc on the left. The bottom picture has a blue jacketed conductor in the centre.

angerj@angerj· Mar 30

Drawing from drawings. 1 minute and 3 minute drawings. Great for loosening up.

4 loose drawings in wet media (Artgraf) all from one sketch. The scene is a fence in the foreground curving right and glimpsed round the path bearing left. Marks for trees, grasses.

angerj@angerj· Mar 24

The theme this month for Jo Blaker's ongoing Scribbles in the Sky sessions is Use it Up! The energy you bring when you are 'just using up' is looser and playful and interesting. I'm using up old pastels, watercolour paper 'kept for best'. Lots of fun.