Strange fact no.1: When you don’t have a notebook or sketchbook on you, there’s loads of stuff you want to note or sketch.
Strange Fact no.2: When you have a sketchbook or notebook on you all the time, there’s nothing that induces you to note or sketch.
The boat is a traditional ‘Oruwa’ Sri Lankan fishing boat. the section attached to the main body, sort of a catamaran, (Outrigger!), is always kept on the windward side, just so we’re clear on that.
Tea plantation workers plodding up a track.
The heron sketch is in fact an Egret. Even a drawing that is not much more than 150mm in height gives no sense of how big it is. In fact they’re quite small and love sitting on water buffalo.