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This took a useful while to draw and suggests other ways of working from home from old sketch books and life drawings. The architect in me spent too much time worrying about planes of wall and floor shadows and not enough time on the seated figure which is loosely based on me.

Obviously I could not ‘pose’ the picture or draw it from life. Instead it is composed from other sketches which are grouped below:

Nothing like me but I like the colour. Nose has gone weird. 20 minute drawing before a cup of tea and going to bed. Will try again tomorrow!

A quick drawing early this morning. Still some way off with regard to a likeness. Yasmin thinks I’ve a thicker set jaw and neck. And the face is too long.

It felt great to be drawing again, emptying the mind to look carefully at what you see to draw and not what you might imagine.

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I’ve started to play with blank postcards, experimenting with how water washes and folds distort ink lines and smudges. The pleasure is not knowing quite what you are going to get from the process. I’ve done many more than the ones shown here. They keep suggesting other ways of working, a useful distraction in these Covid-19 times.

I hope you are all safe and well.