Bramble and Burdock

Today was spent listening to music... ... and reflecting...

Another effort for IF . I made this a while ago hoping to turn it into a T-shirt design, but as usual never got around to it. I was reading a book about Marx and sketched a quick charicature from a photo of him. He's always depicted with that serious look, hence the captions. He had a hard life, but I think he would have had a chuckle now and then - and he'd certainly appreciate all the bloggers who are "rising up" and producing their own content...!

Somewhere in between card-making and sleeping, I found time to do a quick sketch for the topic "Vacant" for this week's Illustration Friday . Sharks always seem to have vacant eyes, which tends to make them seem scarier (that and the fact that a lot of them have huge teeth!), but actually I quite like them! For this illo I took a pic of my drawing (for lack of a scanner) and inverted the colours using GIMP to make it look like it's looming out of the dark.

It's very difficult to concentrate on making Christmas cards when cows keep wandering across to see what you're doing...

October seems to be the best month for colour photography. I spent the weekend capturing the changing foliage!

Well, autumn is well and truly here in my part of the world. Soon it'll be time to start thinking about Christmas!

A silly one for IF . Possible alternate tagline - "Lemon suspected nepotism was the explanation for such a quick promotion..."