What would seven days in your life look like without colour, without people? Here are my pictures of a monochromatic week in the life of one @mjcarty. Fresh from last month’s #Inktober daily drawing challenge, my lovely friend Kate Griffiths-Lambeth set me another challenge, one that she herself was also undertaking. Take a photograph a day […]
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Sweet emotion
What is it to feel? What puts you in direct touch with your feelings, your emotions? Serendipity around sweet emotion inspired this post. For me and for so many people, music is the most direct route to the sweetest emotion. Music is a language that cannot be spoken. Yet it can say everything that needs […]
Light in the dark, window into the soul
There is always light to be found. There is always light trying to find you. The light can change you, transform you. Wednesday, I glimpsed the lovely sight of a row of commuters through a train window. Each finding their own fuel for the freezing morning grind in the light emanating from the rectangles in […]
#Inktober 5: Pumpkins, poppies, pink balaclavas
My final selection of pictures drawn for #Inktober – a month-long challenge to produce an ink picture every single day. I made it through! Viewers of a sensitive disposition be warned: Pink balaclavas are to be found herein… Sunday 29 October 2017 Decaying open-air coffeeshop pumpkin flower vases of our time. Based on a photo […]
#Inktober 4: Buddha, Vader, Frank Furter
Inktober – a month-long challenge to create an ink drawing every day throughout the month of October. This is my first ever time Inktober-ing – and this post is my fourth weekly round-up of pics! Absolutely anyone can Inktober. If you’ve not yet done so and fancy giving it a while, why not, eh? I’d […]
#Inktober 3: Draw another day
Fancy giving drawing a go, or getting back on the metaphorical drawing horse? Why not try #Inktober? I’m having a go at this 31-day exercise in producing a drawing a day as a way to “develop positive drawing habits”. You can, too! Here’s my third weekly round-up of #Inktober scrawlings. Now with added Force. Sunday […]
#Inktober 2: Conan Doyle, felines, fish
I’m giving #Inktober a go this year – a 31-day challenge created by one Jake Parker to help “develop positive drawing habits”. The idea is to produce one ink drawing a day throughout the month of October. This post collects my scrawlings since the first selection – entitled My #Inktober Symphony – which I posted […]
My #Inktober symphony
I thought I’d give #Inktober a go this year. I used to draw all the time when I was young. But I fell badly out of the habit a long time ago. This past year, I’ve been trying to get back into the drawing habit. “Anyone can do Inktober, just pick up a pen and […]
Of struggle, gratitude and the elk
Are you content with your level in life? No-one owes you a single, solitary bean. It’s all down to you: The level you are on, what you make of it, and the gratitude you feel. It’s fair to say that podcaster Joe Rogan and his friend, bowhunter Cameron Hanes, are on a different level to […]
The moment summer ended
What does summer mean to you? What time of the year is truly your time? And the most important question of all: What’s next? Summer is most folks’ favourite time of the year, but it is most definitely not my cup of coffee. Too hot, too bright, too much pollen for hayfevery me. Nonetheless, if […]
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