Without Words Challenge for August

Hello there, yep it is that time of the month for a new challenge over at 

Without Words

the theme is

"Anything Clean and Simple Goes"

(Choose from a previous theme)

cool eh!

I chose to use 

 January 2014 Challenge - Spots and or Stripes

Here they are in close up

"Did you hear" by Mo Manning

in coloured pencil on kraft

Our sponsor this month is

so go on have a go - you have lots of themes to choose from and you never know you could be the lucky winner of a £10 voucher to spend in the store!

Please post your entries HERE

Well that's all folks!

I'm probably going to be a little quiet this month with the old blogging as we are in the midst of harvest and the boys are keeping me very busy - so lets hope the warm, sunny weather stays so hubby can get the crops harvested uber early!

Water Colour Markers

Have any of you tried Winsor & Newton Water Colour Markers yet?

I have been lucky to have the opportunity to do so over the past couple of days
and I have to say I am rather impressed.

For anyone who is interested, they have a brush tip at one end and a small bullet tip at the other.

And here is what I created

Clueless by SCACD

Now I confess this is not pure water colour marker, I have filled in the colour gaps with a couple of tubes of Winsor and Newton Professional Water Colour which blended with the markers seamlessly.

Off for an ice cream to cool down - loving the sunshine.

Tally ho

Oh boy, I have been struggling to get this post written, for a while now I have been unable to upload images via IE but today Blogger is being a pain even on Chrome - it's driving me nuts!

So here is a quick post with a cute image from Nellie Snellen

hope you like it

Scoffie's Skating

(coloured pencils on Winsor & Newton smooth surface heavy weight cartridge paper)

Thanks for dropping by

here is hoping Blogger behaves when I come back with my next post!