Category: The World
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Natural Beauty: Landscapes

For #WorldWatercolorGroup Today’s theme… Landscapes. A very, very quick watercolour today as I try to fit the above image into an A4 size piece of paper… I got most of the features and none of the detail. Ah well, you have to actually be out there to appreciate it properly! It was raining when I…
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Natural Beauty: Fossils

Fossil Inspired, anyhow. Today’s #WORLDWATERCOLORGROUP watercolour has been inspired by the Asteroceras Obtusym, otherwise known as the Obtuse Star Ammonite, which I’m taking to be a well-known fact. According to Wikipedia, this is an extinct species of cephalopod of the Ammonite sub-class. They were carnivores, nektonic at that. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived around the…
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Natural Beauty: Sea Life

I’ve gotten the old paintbrushes out again, and splodged a few watercolours around a piece of paper. It’s Natural Beauty time over at Doodlewash with today’s theme being Sea Life, so I thought I’d venture down that old road again. As usual, I had an idea as to what I wanted in my head… dolphins…
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Yet Another Milestone Reached!

The final stats-related milestone has now been reached, for the time being, as it stands. I have now clocked up 25,000 visitors. Now, I’m not exactly one-hundred per cent sure on the difference between a visitor and a view, but looking at these figures I’m told that each visitor on average has viewed something on…
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Cute Critter Friday: A Bug’s Life of Riley

Pottering the other day, I came across this little Green Shield Bug having an afternoon snooze. I thought he was hibernating at first, but I soon realised he was only dozing as he began to wave his antenna at me. I didn’t want to annoy him any longer so I left him be. Apparently, this…