The thing I particularly love about my mug’s artwork is the colour variations displayed at the point where the various geometric patterns intersect, so I had to have a go at colouring the drawing I did. I was hoping to use watercolour, but I’d already pasted in an article about the Matisse Museum in France having received a donated Matisse-decorated dining room and was concerned about the effect of any excess dampness on the newsprint, so I used coloured pencil again. Will post a scan shortly.

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EDM challenge number 4. My mug is one I bought at the Tate Modern after the Bauhaus exhibition they had there and has one of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy’s designs on it (A 19 from 1927). I’m very fond.

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Or possibly spring onions, depending on where you live. They were left over from the corn chowder and just flopped on the bench, so I figured I might as well practice my pen-drawing. Then played with the coloured pencils trying to capture the right greens for the leaves. Fun!

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I guess it could kind of be considered EDM #130 “Draw some school supplies” but it feels a bit like cheating. I think it will remain an unattached stapler.

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In Switzerland. Walked in the other direction from the last walk, along gentle inclines in the sun. Most of the snow had melted away and the ground was almost dry enough to sit on (almost = I sat on what seemed to be a dry tussock and then had to brush a fair lot of mud off my jeans afterwards, once it had dried enough to do so). So I sat in the sun and drew mountains and a chalet in front of me in my composition notebook with my new sepia pen.

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Sticking with my trying-to-draw-more-stuff-in-pen-without-pencil-underdrawing resolution, I dashed off a teaspoon that was lying folorn post-breakfast.

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In Switzerland. I got up with the others (not being a skiier this trip due to wobbliness in the left leg) at the crack of dawn and the light over the mountains was so stunning that as soon as the others had gone I fetched my new coloured pencils and coloured pastel paper and repaired to the comfy outdoor couches to draw them. Quite pleased with the result. Anna seemed to like it and they’re her mountains, so I guess that’s good.

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Started a new spread to make a special page for my affirmations I just redid, rather than having them on grotty bits of paper drifting about the place. The new pencils are lovely – marvellous rich colours and worked well over the watercolour wash I put down on the pages yesterday. Very happy with them – looking forward to trying them out on real paper (as opposed to thin Moleskine paper).

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I went for a walk and attempted a few quick pen sketches while I was at it. Not fabulous, although I was quite pleased with the quick drawing of a man who was standing staring at the ground, which was encouraging because my figures are usually All Wrong in a big way.

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… while I cooked dinner. I’ve been meaning to start practising drawing directly with a pen, rather than using a pencil underdrawing, so I can loosen up and just practise getting used to judging angles correctly, so I just pulled out the pen and a spare moleskine cahier and did rough sketches of some plates, the pork grilling over the gas and some zucchini in their tray, spending about 2-3 minutes on each (and interspersed with dinnery type activity). They came out OK and once some coloured pencil was added, actually looked pretty convincing. Going to try to do more of this.

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