| Hello all from Noreen I hope you enjoyed your day at Abbey Farm. I seriously thought of joinning you, but a walk round my garden told me it was too cold to sit outside for any length of time. As Lesley said, although it was a little warmer than last week, there was still a need for multple layers of clothing. So I stayed at home and did a pen drawing from an old photograph (see right). Then I had a very welcome visit from Avril. Perhaps I'll manage to come next week, but meanwhile I must tell you that Hannah will be taking over the blog again for the month of June. So please remember to send your artwork to her next Thursday. | Click to enlage images.  |
| Carolyn was first with her work for this week, namely of Taz, who was on holiday in the area. He is apparently a lively 13-year old rescue dog now settled in a happy home after a bad start. His owner liked the picture very much, which has led to a commission for another dog, a springer spaniel. Good for you, Carolyn - keep up the winning streak. |   John has done a very good drawing at Abbey Farm today, shown above, capturing a lot of interesting fine detail of the old house. |
  | Diana didn’t get to Hoxne today but has dug out some old ones: first from 2010 at Hoxne, the top of Watermill Lane looking across the Waveney Valley towards the North; the second from 2012 up on the hill behind Becky’s house at Brockdish, looking across the Waveney Valley from the other direction towards the South. Takes us back! |
| Sally P found this subect very difficult to draw! She took her photo of the actual door from a different angle on purpose so that we can’t tell how inaccurate hers is! Crafty - although we don't really need to know if it's an accurate depiction or not!! |   | Hannah, for this week’s contribution, has finished her cherry tree drawing. She says she has tried to warm it up, and thinks it needs more depth of colour too, but some of that is the limitations of coloured pencil, “and some of it me!” (I know what Hannah means as I too thought I’d try the Derwent Procolour pencils and was rather disappointed with the depth of colour.N ) |
| Avril sent two offerings from this morning - two completely different subjects: a very nice plant drawing (not sure what it is) and an excellent, strong painting detail of the Abbey Farm house. |   |
  | From Lesley: "I decided to concentrate on the garden door at Abbey Farm: this is a mix of pencil, watercolour pencil and watercolour on cartridge paper. It’s rather flat, we had another overcast day with no shadows. The promised sun didn’t materialise....." |
Sally T (re second picture above) says: I need to do a bit more to today's picture. Beautiful building but complicated to draw.
 | Emily sent some photos in last week, including some from the Friday Inkie Printers sessions she has been hosting at The Bank Eye. Here is an image of one display. |
Images from Harriet: her offerings are: one from last week, another from earlier this week and two from today. She says, "One of those is not finished, it is a picture of a wisteria, which was a very beautiful blue and white one, I spent quite a long time drawing it and then decided to mask it and put a wash over it, the masking fluid has pulled off some of the drawing, especially the colour. I think it looks interesting enough for the blog but I do intend to do some more work on it." Apologies for the rather unclear reproduction - N.
| Sally P has sent the following general photos from today; note that the first one includes the door referred to above by Sally. She tells us that nine of you dropped in and out throughout the day. Those of you who didn’t make it to Hoxne may like to use such photos for drawing practice and send them in next time? Hannah will be looking forward to hearing from you. |     |
| PS This is from Jackie, unfortunately not seen until too late for inclusion yesterday, sorry Jackie. She says there is still lots to do but it was so good to be painting outside again. |  |
Have a very good week, with fingers crossed for some warm days and more sunshine. Noreen
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