Take A Leaf Out of His Book

15 min watersoluble pencil sketch on sketchpaper.

I have discovered that I rather like sketching open books. I like these quick sketches, they are opening my eyes to the things I like and the things I don't like.

When you think of taking a leaf out of someone else's book it's because you think they have got things right, so you want to emulate it. Trouble with me is I am very independent and stubborn which means I cannot take a leaf out of anybody else's book, because I'm too busy writing my own! I like the saying all the same.

Life is an Open Book

10 min watersoluble pencil on sketch paper.

Letters and appointments... all part of life.

Always exciting when the post arrives though slightly disappointing if it happens to be bills - still we live in hope and feel excitement rising whenever we hear the letterbox.

Appointments are similar... some good, some bad... we hope for the best but expect the worst. It's nice when something we are dreading turns out to be much better than expected - not disappointing after all, but instead a pleasant surprise.

The Bookshop

30 min watersoluble pencil on cold pressed watercolour paper.

On reading a book you step into another world and take on a new life.

The best books are like good friends, I visit them time and again and feel reluctant to leave.

The bookshop is the place to visit to begin a new life.