Hope is the thing with feathers

Where are the eagles and the trumpets?

Lots of new projects under way here:  playing around with a 'skyline' theme for a Studio12 show next year, and also getting back to my less definite shapes and shadows of people in doorways and windows.  Playing also with some urban landscapes too, but these are still at sketchbook phase.  Also went to life drawing today (the first time since last Autumn I think).  Good good.  And no eagles or trumpets.  Yet.

oil sketches

are done!  Putting the lemon turps away now, and getting back to the kinder but less effective (when lifting off pigment) odourless solvent