The correct date on this one!

Been making cards and wrapping paper for my best mates birthday

Old sewage pumping station, top of Wheatley Hall road. Just spotted this building recently, revealed by recent work on the area. Been dying to draw it. Found time this weekend over 3 sessions. I love this little architectural treasure. @bluesky.arts #womensart #sketchingoutside

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

Over a couple of chilly sessions. Barnby Dun lifting bridge on the canal. We're spoiled for lovely and useful engineering round here. Everywhere you look there's something cleverly designed and masterfully built. I could spend all my time wandering and capturing these practical, beautiful objects.

"Jesus Christ Superstar Came down from heaven on a Yamaha Pulled a skid Killed a kid And ended up in a dustbin lid." Amen

Another increment of time in a Summer on the walls of Two Doors Studio - Today until Saturday .. www.ianrpearsall.co.uk

If you return unwanted Reform local election leaflets to their party headquarters using their free post address, then it will cost the party £2.50 per envelope. Please don’t share this information; it could cost Nigel Farage a fortune.

Ardagh Glass, Rockware as was, where my Dad worked. Its a bit of a landmark round here and I've always that it has beauty of a sort. Drawn over a couple of days in this lovely bright chill #womensart #sketchingoutside #factory #drawing @blueskyartshow.bsky.social

Struijk to win it....WEMBLEY! #lufc

The pipe bridge at Old Sandall. I'm enjoying drawing a subject over more than one sitting, returning in different light and weather. It does mean things change but it means you feel part of the landscape yourself, as you sweat and are sunblind at one time and shiver and tense the next

There's a magnificent water tower on Ledger Way in Doncaster and I love it. I started drawing it last weekend and it might be finished now. #sketchingOutside @bluesky.arts #Doncaster

Jenrick is truly stupid

Spotted this busy and dynamic twisted willow in the community garden - opposite my house - that's been on my list for a while, first go at it this morning

The other side of the crow tree, from Graham Road, Kirk Sandall, behind the block of flats #sketchingoutside @bluesky.arts #corvids #crowsnest #artistsonbluesky #womensart

Read it, loved it. Tense AND funny. How can that be?

I have no problem admitting I'm not a racist. Why can't the right just admit that they are? We all know it. The bullshit they invent to cover it up is pathetic. Right-wingers: have the courage of your fucking awful convictions.

A good plan

Right big fluffy things

Had plans to go out hunting for beauty then saw that it was all there, just above my garden @bsky.art #sky #clouds #drawingoutside

Been admiring this tree for a while with crow nests and crows - dwarfing houses all around. So I've been using foul language at the wind while I sat shivering and scribbling this morning. Blobs of sunshine teasing but ineffectual. I wanted to draw it before the foliage obscures it @bsky.art

More IWD brew pics.

Mad but joyful tree at the back of Ardagh Glass Sandall industrial estate

3 poplars this grey morning from the playing field in kirk sandall @bsky.art #sketchingoutside #trees

I've missed drawing outside. Bit nippy and drizzly but still, good to be out amongst nature. Eventually mi feet were numb and I cycled home. But a did a sketch of Kirk Bramwith Drain bridge, which I've had my eye on for a while as a potential next lino print @bsky.art ##sketchingoutdoors

New linoprint. 4 colour reduction, waterbased inks. From a pastel I did in '88 looking over to Barnburgh colliery, the year before it closed. @bsky.art #linoprint #Barnburgh #SouthYorkshire #art

Bloody old Lilac tree, but no has been. Give it a couple of months and watch it go. Boom. Best smell ever. Rockery could do with some work, but, can't be arsed. Quick sketch to try out my new outdoor drawing stool. Its smashing #blueskyart @bsky.art #sketchingoutside #springtime #nature

Nanci writing @@bsky.art

I bet he's sweating now

The daft thing is that with Proportional Representation there'd be no need for this self-destructive war within Labour. It could split into its component parts - left and right - and people could vote for what they wanted. It's only First-Past-the-Post that forces these irreconcilables together.

Spent the last 2 days working on a 4 colour reduction linocut. Using Essdee water based inks. Head's spinning from neg/pos thinking. Pretty happy with the results on the whole, having learned loads from the process to apply the next time. @bsky.art #linocut #printing

Quick charcoal sketch. Tulips my colleague's daughter gave to me for help during her work experience @bsky.art #arr #charcoaldrawing

Self portrait with my 50 year old jumper that belongedto my Dad. @bsky.art #drawing #portrait

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Bog roll @bsky.app

Reform taking the cream of the crap from the Tories.

Having a change from drawing. Did my first linocut today. Got an EssDee starter kit from Jacksons Art. Its a beautiful process and im so excited to do more @bky.art

God bless Robert Generic, Britain's favourite Ozempic root vegetable, who has today sacrificed his personal ambitions of political power so he could - let me check my notes - pursue political power.

What a perfect day to sit around in your jammies with a hot water bottle up your jumper, pottering #sketching @bsky.art #StillLife

I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland. Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.

Hardwick Hall. Beautiful place, Utterly beautiful day.

For years I watched established journalists fumble to explain trump. "Maybe he's playing 4D chess," they'd say. No, he's just a stupid, impulsive criminal. And you normalised him.

Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

Still life with empties ##blueskyarts

Full time: 0-0. Leeds fans and players celebrate like it's a win. A monumental result for the club, even with the excellent recent run. Stood tall and defended doggedly all night. Six unbeaten. Seven clear. Fantastic 21 points from first half of the season. #lufc

Last little sketch from 2025

Fountains Abbey this morning before it opened to the public