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Just added more. One waiting to be oiled and another roughed out ready to start carving.

Working from a musician absorbed in playing. I did this on my iPod with Procreate. I hadn’t used that programme for years but another member of the group was using it and had a really appealing and sensitive line. I’m really enjoying it. It is great to use with an apple pencil. Below is a…

Getting on with the bog oak spoon family

I joined a drawing group in a back room of the Horse and Groom in St Leonard’s. Just people who want to draw and organised by Teressa. Loved it. This was all quite liberating and I’ve done another 10 drawings since then. Mostly out and about with a fountain pen and some finished later with…

I’ve just finished resetting all the AI stuff into a new website so it doesn’t get confused with my spoons and stuff. I’ve been working on it quite intensively for three or four months now. Partly writing it, then restructuring the content for the web rather than paper, and lastly having to relearn WordPress. Here…

That’s the second of, what feels like, a family of spoons from these two pieces of bog oak. I’ve also got another two pieces ready to carve. I don’t think they can take fine carving. The old wood is too fragile for that, so they will stay rustic. I rather like the way they stand…

Just blocking out the basic structure of another small bog oak spoon.

I’ve just been grazing through a book of David Hockney’s drawings from the late 1960’s early 1970’s. They were shockingly familiar because I had bought the first Hockney book – a significant expense and my first major art book purchase. What was strange was how looking back on these old 1970’s drawings of Mo, Celia,…

This morning the UK government issued a press release setting out a blueprint to turbocharge AI. This appears to herald a dramatic change to the approach adopted by the previous administration. The earlier approach was measured and gave equal emphasis to dangers and safeguarding concerns while accepting the advantages. The government now declares the intention…

Used my iPad app to work up this page of drawings for a family of spoons. These were based on the first bog oak spoon I made last week. I did make a very small one from a chip of wood but I tested it to destruction and it broke. I think these bog oak…