My version of this weeks Thursday #portraitchallenge done in acrylic ink, paint and markers. Salvaged enough spilled ink to do this lovely juicy red jumper.

How's everyone's morning going. I've managed to spill half a bottle of ink. Has the cricket started yet 🤔

From yesterday's dog walk. A smoky sky and thunderstorms building up. Lightning didn't arrive until evening and doggo was supremely unbothered.

Thursdays #portraitchallenge from @studioteabreak.bsky.social on the other site :) My version of 'Sleeping Soldier' by Eric Kennington 1918. My version (I promise) started as a delicate pencil sketch .... but just got more and more grim.

Thursday #portraitchallenge via @studioteabreak.bsky.social on the other site My version in mixed media of Paul Wayland Bartlett by Charles Sprague Pearce 1890

Catching up on Thursday #portraitchallenge 23/10/25 and 30/10/25. 'A Cornish Boy' 1917 and 'The Green Book' 1925 both by Harold Knight My versions in acrylic and pencils in A5 sketchbook.

Why I'm not expecting any trick-or-treaters tonight and am already surrounded by sweet wrappers.

Thursday #portraitchallenge Albert Welti family portrait.1904 Hosted by @studioteabreak.bsky.social over on twitter (link via their bio) My version in watercolour and pencils. I haven't done one of these in a few weeks

Thursday #portraitchallenge Portrait of Ramon Casas, by Santiago Rusiñol in 1890 Challenge set by @studioteabreak.bsky.social My version in acrylic and neocolours in sketchbook

A dangerous(ly adorable) predator approaches…

My doggo's toys collection or their debut album cover. Acrylics in sketchbook.

Continued from yesterday with added brass pencil sharpener. Acrylics in sketchbook.

Still life sketch. The dental cast is a bit ick and I might replace with something cheerier if/when I repaint this in acrylics. Also make the box wonky to match the jam jar.

My version of this week's Thursday #portraitchallenge. Girl with a cabbage, Firmin Baes, 1903.

Unless you're First Nations, you're a descendant of immigrants. No gatekeeping on stolen land 🖤💛❤️

Final! #DrawingAugust Day 31 While our Lime tree blossom is white our Lemon tree has pink tinged flowers.

#DrawingAugust Day 30 Yesterday's drawing of blossom on our Lime tree

Day 29 #DrawingAugust Today has been at least a week long. Here's a tired looking gull who agrees

Thursday #portraitchallenge

My version of today's #portrait challenge and Day 28 of #DrawingAugust. I just used one of those pencils that has four colours in one.

Day 27 #DrawingAugust A throwback to the bananas of day 4, with intense and watercolour pencils

#DrawingAugust Day 26. Intersection minus the buildings and the cars.

Final week of #DrawingAugust Day 25 Magnolia

Day 24 #DrawingAugust more dog walk photo reference

😒 Day 23 #DrawingAugust (got yesterday's number wrong) This was the look on my face when I finished my 1st attempt at today's drawing of a street view. This one was much more fun to make. The exasperated selfie.

My version of yesterday's Thursday #portraitchallenge Day 21 #DrawingAugust

Day 21 #DrawingAugust In no way have I shown how bright these flowers really are. From another dog walk photo.

Live look at our correspondents trying to digest the overwhelming amount of global news, climate data reports, battlefield (Ukr/Gaza/wash DC?) updates, and social media posts. Discl: No baby terns were harmed in this video. A fish was harmed, irreperably.

Day 20 #DrawingAugust My pea plants have outgrown the trellis and are still going. This is from a photo (looking up at them)

A local weekend market that's always packed with people. From photo. #DrawingAugust Day 19

#DrawingAugust Day 18 Another day, another river (from photo).

#DrawingAugust Day 17 Sunday by the river. Sketching in public is not as scary as I thought, will do again. Quick 3-5 min sketches in A6 and big A3 sketchbooks. Watercolour pencils and watercolour.

#DrawingAugust Day 15 A quick beach sketch from a photo that's got to be at least 10 years old.

My version of today's Thursday #portraitchallenge #DrawingAugust day 14. She looks like she turned her head at the last second

Catch up. Day 13 #DrawingAugust cabbages and shadows in the veg garden.

#DrawingAugust Day 12. Drawn from a phone photo. An evening dog walk a few weeks ago. The red spotches in top left are Grevillia flowers.

Day 11 of #DrawingAugust

#DrawingAugust Day 10. The ALT text description tried to autocorrect to "lots of people in the water drown" so that's fun.

#DrawingAugust day 9. View at a local breakfast place.

Day 8 #DrawingAugust I don't know why I took this reference photo. I don't remember why I kept this photo, it was 2023.

For #DrawingAugust day 7 and this week's Thursday #portraitchallenge. My version of La Donna Velata by Raphael. Pencils over a watercolour background on sketchbook paper.

Day 6 # #DrawingAugust pencils over watercolour.

#DrawingAugust day 5 Neopastel 2s on gouache and coloured pencils.

Even former Foreign Minister Bob Carr is quoted today in the media saying Albo was wasting his breath. Less talk, more action @albomp @senatorpennywong

Kitchen table still life. Day 4 #DrawingAugust. Including the scratches in the table :)

#DrawingAugust #DrawingAugust2025 Day 3 Ramdom street view to the rescue again.

Two for the second( this won't continue). #DrawingAugust Day 2. #DrawingAugust2025 I had more fun with the fruit and fishes but found the pen work of the farm very relaxing. Random street view for the farm and Pinterest for the others.

#DrawingAugust Day 1 My dog turns 6 tomorrow. He came away from the groomers today with his head and feet shaved, looking like a big baked potato. #spoodle Here he is looking a bit shaggier

Thursday #portraitchallenge. My version is in acrylics on paper.

Flipping through old sketchbooks for #DrawingAugust inspo and found the Barnaby Joyce beetroot spread. #netzerobarnaby