It's always exciting when I start a new #sketchbook.
The last one - Volume 16 - lasted 20 months which is slightly longer than average.

All my sketchbooks are in the same 148 X 130mm format, they are Daler- Rowney Ebony books which have 150g/m2 acid free paper.

Volume 16 (just finished) started in Glenfield, Leicestershire, England and went with me via Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Grand Cayman, Jamaica, Cuba & Mexico as well as the English counties of Kent, Norfolk, Sussex, Northamptonshire & Lincolnshire back to the last scribble in the book within 500 metres of the first in the book.

I can't boast of any great skill, but it's something I enjoy doing and the books help me to remember our past, and our holidays to distant places.
I would love my grandchildren (and their children) to discover the world through them.

I can't imagine where the next book will accompany me to!

#travelSketch #CarnetDeVoyages #drawing #UrbanSketching

I've been out with my #sketchbook today. This is the garden at Canons Ashby, a National Trust place in #northamptonshire.
It was chilly sitting outside #sketching soil perhaps didn't make the most of my time there.
Mrs Mike and our daughter went round the house.
The snowdrops in the grounds were well worth seeing.

#travelDrawing #travelSketch #CarnetDeVoyages

I've been to collect our daughter, as she's spending the night with us.
On the way I had to stop off in #northampton while she went to visit someone.
I did this #drawing of a pretty grim street scene while I was waiting.
I'm quite pleased with it, given the poor subject matter.

#urbanSketching #sketchbook #travelDrawing #CarnetDeVoyages #monochrome #pen