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doodles from the recent van trip

After a wet and wild trip to the north of the UK we get home to a glorious Bank holiday weekend for a change - and how welcome was it.. Dr Fred and I spent most of it pottering around the garden and doing nice things like lunch with friends and reading books.  I have been drawing - still trying to define my concept for the coming year... it has to be personal to me and meaningful as the whole years work revolves around it!!!
Somewhere in here if you squint there are 2 pairs of shoes the washing up and a bag of rubbish -  combo of 2 x timed min continuous line drawings while camping in rain....

I'm finding it difficult to pin down - it needs to take in my love of nature and my love of travel, we've done quite a bit of nature recently but our travel has been limited due to unforeseen family constraints - I do have a lot of historical resources to draw on and next week I'm going to be looking over my past photographs and journals and hope that something jumps out and say YES WHAT A BRILLIANT IDEA!!!!

seaweed and pebbles - doodling on the beach...

Meanwhile I am trying to draw every day, mainly flora and fauna, sometimes odd things to do with our camper van travels, and hopefully the concept will emerge!  most of the imagery is just quick sketches to keep in practice - its hard to keep up the momentum without the discipline of college.... so contemplation and reflection... how to marry nature and travel... and make it coherent so I can develop it and make wonderful art!!!

doodles turned into repeat pattern using phone app 

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