a couple of apples -- obviously. The 'adacd' stands for 'another day, another crap drawing' -- it is motivational. The idea is that you have to draw every day (or write, if you are a writer, etc) and not worry about the quality. Worrying about quality undermines your ability to work. The idea is: do the work and let the quality worry about itself. Totally liberating! For more read "The War of Art" by Stephen Pressfield. It was life-changing for me. I refer to it as 'the Screwtape Letters for artists'.

looking along Dallas road breakwater -- my neighbourhood!

scanned crooked -- I am really bad at this stuff -- anyway, another view from down the street. You can drink coffee in a glassed-in deck while you look at this! The distant hills are in the US Olympic peninsula.

a lunch hour drawing (did I realize how lucky I was?!) in Greyfriar's kirk yard, Edinburgh. I was working at the Museum of Scotland gift shop. A cool job when it wasn't stultifyingly boring. Love the museum though -- if you are going to Edinburgh don't miss it! It is extraordinarily terrific!

a pretty naff drawing of New College, Edinburgh -- I am fairly uncomfortable still drawing architecture, which is unfortunate because I love it. As William Morris said to his wife Jane, "I love you but I cannot paint you".

a swooshy drawing of George IV Bridge in Edinburgh

a spectacular tree outside Victoria -- I drew it while waiting for Ella and her dad to go around the Observatory/star museum thing

an attempt at an Arts and Crafts treatment of -- well, a bush

bluebell study

carnation study