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Day 23: When #Autumnwatch meets #inktober. Still learning to draw figures but my camera did recognise the faces of @chris.packham and Martin… #inktober2017
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Day 22: #inktober #inktober2017 Getting really brace tonight with figurework by trying a #selfportrait of flautist me. With apologies to @lualadu but if you will share my stand…
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Day 21: #inktober #inktober2017 My exploration of figure drawing continues, this time my Dad walking up the beach with my cousin Melkorka… #penandink #penandinkdrawing #amdrawing @drifaadals
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Another week, another week closer to adulthood… #duck????
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Day 20: Wondering if I’m beginning to stretch myself too far with doing pictures of people I actually know… What do you think @jefferyshelen77, anyone you know? #inktober #inktober2017 #amdrawing #penandink #penandinkdrawing
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Day 19: Our last rehearsal tonight before Neil leaves us for a few months for basic training with the army. I hope he will forgive me tonight’s #inktober sketch! #inktober2017 #conductor @abingdonconcertband #NeilBrownless #penandink #penandinkdrawing #amdrawing
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17 years on the waiting. Are you sitting comfortably? Then it’s time begin… #TheBookofDust #amreading
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Shop window to die for, and I really, really want that book in the middle for Christmas!
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Love my favourite #indie bookshop. Now to brew the pot of tea, settle back, and enjoy… #indiebookstores #personaltouch #shoplocal #philippullman #labellesauvage #thebookofdust #books
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Day 18: Watching Philip Pullman and Anna Maxwell Martin at the live launch of The Book of Dust #inktober #inktober2017 #philippullman???? #TheBookofDust
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It’s publicationeve for #TheBookOfDust. Really hope it’s worth the wait and that it doesn’t dissaoint, @philippullman
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Day 17: Worcester College, 4 May 2016 #inktober #inktober2017 #penandink #penandinkdrawing #amdrawing
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Day 16: #OTD #onthisday in 1900 Edward Ardizzone was born. For today’s #inktober I try a scene from #MrTumnal in his style. How did I do? #inktober2017 #penandink #penandinkdrawing #amdrawing
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Born #OTD #onthisday in 1900 Edward Ardizzone is an absolute favourite illustrator of mine. I really need to work on my personal collection. I did name #MrTumnal’s faithful bear after him though!
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Who else has found today’s weather inspirational for their writing? I managed about 400 words snatched in a busy refectory during lunch… #amwriting
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It’s been an odd kind of day… #redsky #ophelia #nofilter
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The end of the world is nigh… #redsky #ophelia #nofilter #saharasand
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Weird apocalyptic light up there today! #yellowsky
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The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman This is the book that concludes Philip Pullman’s epic trilogy, and it is the most complex of the three. In Northern Lights we are introduced to the recognisable but different Oxford of Lyra Belaqua’s world with a self-contained,…
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Day 15: A wren for Mr Tumnal… #inktober #inktober2017 #penandink #penandinkdrawing #woodcut #amdrawing
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