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The Ritual Year

Big Reveal 🥳🥳🥳

For today & tomorrow's #dailydrawing, here is the cover of our new book (out in August), featuring some of my illustrations from within!

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January 29, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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Grey Heron and snow
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A tiny doodle in waiting for grander ideas ...🤔
#Heron #watercolour
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January 28, 2026 at 8:47 PM
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Dark-bellied Brent goose

From a 📷 by @martynhayes.bsky.social with thanks.

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Watercolour of goose walking to the left, through brown muddy water. Black head, neck and chest, fading to paler grey over belly and back. Black wing feathers at the back and mostly white tail.
January 28, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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Godwit

A linocut I did 3 years ago.

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White image on black background, of wading bird standing on one leg, looking to the right. It has a very long thin beak, white head, breast and tail, and the rest of the plumage is shaded using white stripes. (An actual godwit's plumage is mottled browns and russets with a pink beak.)
January 27, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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Queen of the Night

From my archive. Felt like some lush colour today.

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Two tulip flowers, in deep black-crimson. Same colour splashed across the image.
January 26, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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Redpoll
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I got lucky to get really close to one
#watercolour #redpoll 🦉
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January 25, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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Rook

I was watching rooks recently and tho' I've painted them often before, they still fascinate me as a bird & a subject.

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Circular paper with rook's profile looking left. Curved grey beak shading into pale buff where it meets the bird's feathers. Black plumage.
January 25, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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Gnarled apple tree
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There are some beautiful old apple trees on campus. Some are hollow but still bear fruit
Tits don't care if it's cold or snow. They are singing to the light returning 🦉
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January 24, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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Snipe

From my archive. (A 'snipe day' is always a good day 😊)

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Watercolour of sitting bird, facing to left, with very long, thin beak, and generally brown plumage. Clear brown and beige stripes over the head. Paint splatters across the whole image.
January 24, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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Roman brooch & Roman/early med(?) whistle.

For #drawingdiggingforbritain and #diggingforbritain, I eschewed the bone box & went for these finds from Broadway.

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Watercolour of section of pale yellow bone on left, wtih two holes drilled in the centre. To the right is a copper alloy (pale blue/green) brooch with a central curved pin and thinner sharp wire that would have pierced the cloth, attached to a cross bar of wire twisted around and covered by more slightly-decorated copper alloy.
January 23, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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Peahen

Well after the peacock of a couple of days ago, seems only fair to have the female version.

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Bird profile facing to left with brown stripes across top of head and cheek, white between, changing to rich blue and green on neck. Has numerous feathers forming a crest and a downturned, pointy beak.
January 21, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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Fieldfare
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#watercolour #bird #fieldfare

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January 20, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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Melting snow and sea ice or old boat house
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It's too early to hope for spring but the 60 cm if snow has almost gone. Colder weather is on its way
Tiny #watercolour
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January 19, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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Mermaid's purse

I have a fascination for these shark egg cases, which wash up on the beach. Kind friends sometimes find them for me too.😏

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Painting of black, oval-shaped, dried egg-case, with a long, thin, curved 'horn' emerging from each corder, all pointing upwards.
January 19, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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Sóc un patata fent paisatge, però hem vingut a jugar.
Becadells (Gallinago gallinago) al crepuscle.
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January 17, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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Peacock

That blue...🥰

From a lovely 📷 by @rina2012.bsky.social with thanks.

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Pen and ink painting of head and breast of bird, facing viewer but looking up to left, deep cobalt blue breast in foreground, blue and black-shaded head, with white stripe below and above eye, and pointed, curved beak in pale grey and pink. On top of head are a series of modified feathers, just 'stalks' which end in a 'feather duster' of blue feathers.
January 17, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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Heron

From my archive.

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Loose sketch of grey and white bird on long legs, facing to left. Has a long, yellow beak, black crest and black feathers along edge of wing.
January 16, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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Primary colours
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Played with primary colours, no inspiration and a headache. Then these small blobs begged for #dragons A6
#yellowochre #winsorred #frenchultramarine
#LetThereBeDragons
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January 15, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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Avocet portrait

From a lovely 📷 by @helenbennett.bsky.social with thanks.

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Circular paper with painting of bird's head, looking to left, with narrow black upturned beak, black top of head and back of neck, white elsewhere. That's all!
January 15, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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Bath huts
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Snow but still a memory of summer
I love the windswept pines
Tiny doodle

#watercolour #Falsterbo
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January 14, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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Roman brooch

For #drawingdiggingforbritain and #diggingforbritain, which is on tv again tonight. Resisted the temptation of the #carnyx 😇. @richardosgood.bsky.social

Did this one early, as I've got a long day digging on site tomorrow, which usu leaves me too tired and cold to paint🙄😀
Copper alloy brooch made of gently curved metal bar, ending in a pierced triangle of metal at the bottom and several coiled pieces of metal 'wire' at the top, from which protrudes a thin pin. The whole in red and brown, with small areas of oxidised blue copper.
January 14, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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Tiny barn owl

Not easy, working at such a small scale. But from a lovely 📷 by @briancondra.bsky.social with thanks.

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Circular paper with barn owl facing viewer. The breast and belly is white but grey with shadow, the wings around the edge are orangey brown. Heart-shaped face with black eyes brown head top.
January 13, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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Short-eared Owl
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Little doodle on new A6 paper. Testing testing...
@drrjwarren.bsky.social sent this beautiful photo reminding us on great encounter
#bird #watercolour
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January 12, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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Winter king

Another round little bird for a round little bit of paper😀

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Small brown bird looking down at ground to the left, with short upright tail and brown, striated plumage.
January 12, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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Falsterbo Lighthouse in January
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#watercolour #Lighthouse #Falsterbo
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January 11, 2026 at 7:22 PM