Saturday morning was firstly spent in the studio practising sketching. I draw a still life (very badly) of a wine bottle and a teapot. The bottle wasn't too bad, but the teapot looked a little odd! I enjoyed shading though. Next i braved the outdoors and sat down on my waterproof picnic rug and drew the outside of the stone farm building. It was about practising perspective and it came out quite well. Then i drew a tree and went indoors again and drew some views from the studio window. This was my favourite part. I drew a lovely stone wall with plants and flowers in ink pen, and did some shading my using a damp paint brush.

Then it was time for a lunch, which consisted of a roll and some crisps. This was just enough after the cooked breakfast! Spurred on by another cup of tea with started using some pastels. I produced another view of the stone wall, which had a lot of energy (scribbly!).

Before the evening meal i did my first watercolour. It was a copy of a picture of a lake and was all in one colour, but using different tones. It came out quite well.

Then it was time for tea; didn't time fly!