Living day to day
I have been wearing TomboyX boy shorts for a number of years now. Long enough for my favourite pairs to develop holes and need to be thrown away. Except, I decided to try my hand at making a pattern from the old pair, reuse the elastic, and making a new pair from a t-shirt that [ ] The post Upcycled Undies appeared first on Life on Mars .
A little figure drawing action. We ve been hard at work in the garden today, I m a little low on energy. 10 minutes felt like an age! I should have spent longer on the dimensions maybe. The post 10 minute bodies appeared first on Life on Mars .
One of the fun things about having time off is that I can do these mid-afternoon workshops on the spur of the moment. Koosje Koene is an artist I ve been following on YouTube and Instagram for a while. This was one of her monthly online workshops, and today was all about focusing on the shadows. [ ] The post Koosje Koene Monthly Workshop appeared first on Life on Mars .
I ve got some time right now because I m on a three month sabbatical. One of my (very loose) goals is to improve my watercolour painting. This is a first attempt in a new sketchbook. I need to mix more of any colour. I almost always run out, and remixing is hard. I think I m overworking [ ] The post Watercolour practice British Camp appeared first on Life on Mars .
I meant to draw something else today, but honestly that s been the story of the day. Start one thing, get distracted by something else, start that And repeat. So I ended up doing a random doodle. And I didn t even fill the page. The post Random doodle appeared first on Life on Mars .
Cricket week is over, and we are back home. I m very sleepy, we re catching up on some highlights of the professional cricket, and I ve doodled this. The post Back home appeared first on Life on Mars .
Apparently these chicks are too new to be left alone without lots of water, and too small for a large water bowl. So they re living in a trailer on the side of the pitch for the week. They are extremely cute. Although one did, sadly, die. Apparently that s the way with chicks. The post Coral s Chicks appeared first on Life on Mars .
British camp is rumoured to be the location of the final stand of Caractacus against the Romans, but I m not sure there s a lot of evidence. It is definitely shaped. I ve not done a great job of picking out the levels. Worth an attempt though. The post British camp appeared first on Life on Mars .
It s cricket week. This is a critical piece of infrastructure for our campsite. Mind you, it s very warm, and the drought means the grass is a pale yellow. We re looking forward to some slightly cooler weather later in the week, when we can stop fighting over the shade! The post Camp Kettle appeared first on Life on Mars .
We got given a couple of tickets to see Suzanne Vega in Aylesbury tonight. This was a giant spinning wheel that is up to advertise their panto this Christmas: Sleeping Beauty. I really needed to get some of the background in, I think, but the support act was starting and my time was up! Maybe [ ] The post Aylesbury Panto appeared first on Life on Mars .