This Week's Visual Journal

Week 24 of 2024

Highlights of this week:

• the smell of freshly pulled rhubarb.

• the ever increasing awareness of patterns including reds, ochres and pinks.

• a Saturday doing lots of jobs around the house with a trip to pick up some school shoes and a visit to a play park and sweetie shop.

• a week of mornings in the studio working on the Wesley house commission on plants and remedies of the 18th Century. The work included the illustration of a red hollyhock.

• painting my nails felt really nice (which already isn’t looking great anymore haha).

• Nathan’s 11th birthday and his cozy popcorn Jellycat soft toy.

And for those who encouraged me last week, after I voiced frustration over my spread, thank you! In the end, I decided to dedicate a whole other double page to my trip to Paris. I realised we’re nearly half way through the year and I still have plenty more pages left in this Royal Talens sketchbook to complete the year, plus more (a lot more). So of course, now I’m thinking I may do this much more often!! That turning of the page to try again is just so very liberating. That’s the essence of a sketchbook. So maybe this is where chronological diary meets sketchbook. Anyway, I drew poplars reflected in water from a picture I took at the Parc de Sceaux and a cool bicycle we saw at the flew market. And I’m much happier now that there’s a little more blue and green in there to represent our springtime adventures in Paris.

Have a lovely weekend xx