Summer sketchbook, profile.

Short hot spell, 31°C,

Final version. Sorted the ear out and worked in with pthalo blue, including hair highlights.

Final? The photo seems a bit cold, maybe an edit is in order.

Plastering and spawning.

17°C, light W, mostly sunny.

Ants’ nest

They are spawning, the ants. In this tussock they build a pyramid of soil and winged males and females are all over it. I didn’t realise what was going on at first and accidentally disturbed the structure. I side were eggs and more drones. The cone of soil seems quite fragile, I have not seen one before like this. I’m used to seeing spawning from paving slabs, but not this.

Last hole.

Today, I removed the dining room radiator ready for wallpapering. This is the third radiator that hides damaged plaster in this house. This time, the resulting hole is small, only he size of my hand. Newly plastered, it’s drying now. I hope to finish this room by Thursday.

Acrylic A4: fixing errors

I still make mistakes with proportions early on in a picture. It’s annoying because I’d like to avoid making them.

A4 acrylic.

On the plus side- I tried working without the reference for a while to concentrate on thinking in colour. I may do a bit more on this one.