iPad drawings

The wonder of a Christmas gifts growing lush green leaves and the gradual opening of the Carmine Red Amaryllis flowers casting a shadow on the wall.
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Inspired by the cover of the Golden Bough I created this illustration for my book. Using Mistletoe as a complementary therapy alongside my cancer treatments I found that is not just for kissing under.
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Walking around my garden I still get taken aback when I come across this flower. It’s beauty and subtle fragrance fills me with joy. At first it struggled but then it found it’s feet.
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An Allium head from the garden is a ball of white flowers. Looking close-up, seeing the stamens and seed pods, you know it is ripe for REPRODUCTION - all the equipment is at the end of a stem.
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Looking the peonie rose bloom I noticed the centre with it’s halo of orange stamens were the seeds, looking like a nest of hungry birds, with a CUCKOO in their midst.
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The Beano and Dennis the Menace is my reaction to the beetle sitting on the tiny Allium flower. What mischief can he make and like the comic character the beetle is wearing a stripy jumper.
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Over the last few year I have worked with a friend of mine with illustrations and layout for the stories she has written for her grandson, and the tortoise is one of his countryside friends.
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The owl is another good companion to have on an adventure as he can see in the dark and also fly ahead to spot any dangers they may beset his friends.
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A moo cow in the field is curious to see the good companions tramping across the field and being extra careful not to step in any cow pats. They are heading for the trees.
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I know Tiggers don’t climb trees, but this one does, and calls to the friends as he wants to join the merry band as they continue on their quest.
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This reflection in my mirror was my comb over breakdown moment when my hair started to fall out. As I gingerly brushed, it reminded me of a certain orange ex-Apprentice host …
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After any adventure there is a always afternoon tea. Spiders chips for the Owl, lettuce for the Tortoise, a sausage for Tigger and a big juicy earthworm for Mole.
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Narrative Life Drawing with Trixie - 8th September 2022.
Trixie responds to a phrase chosen from a list for the first 10 minute pose, and you have to work fast.

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Narrative Life Drawing with Trixie - 8th September 2022.
This phrase came from suggestions posted on the chat line. I had my own iPad demon when my pen tool froze, the bucket and implements were coloured later.

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Narrative Life Drawing with Trixie - 8th September 2022.
Trixie imaginatively responds to a phrase this time from the chat line suggestions. It is a very interactive evening.
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Narrative Life Drawing with Trixie - 8th September 2022.
Trixie having a session with a face mask in this pose - think her phone in the fore-ground is a link with the Zoom close.
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Narrative Life Drawing with Trixie - 8th September 2022.
Trixie imaginatively responds to a phrase. I think I’m finally beginning to enjoy using my i-Pad.
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Narrative Life Drawing with Trixie - 8th September 2022. Her head being cut off by the camera angle left a row of heads of those on the call. Later I included an old zoom screenshot of my friends.
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Narrative Life Drawing with Trixie - 8th September 2022.
The last of the poses, a portrait with a complicated leopard print on the trow. Think I need a lie down now.
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Lockdown 2020. Using my iPad Pro birthday present this image is one of my first drawings and I had to discover a new way to draw. Online Zoom Portrait and Life Drawing classes were a life-saver for someone who likes to draw.
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One of a series of three drawing from a Monday night Zoom class. This was the first pose andI need to speed up with my decision making. Is it charcoal, pastel or pencil? Need to get a move on as it is a quick one.
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Choices, choices - vector or pixel, brushes or lines, texture or water colour, it is a maze of options before you can begin drawing and it is only a 15 minute pose.
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The last pose is a portrait and I decided to stick with one drawing tool, charcoal. Sorta found my mojo, much easier with one decision apart from the red lipstick.
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Narrative Life Drawing with Trixie - 2021.
Trixie Divine’s first pose is a response to a phrase provided herself the others from the Zoom group. Two colours, one drawing tool.
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Narrative Life Drawing with Trixie Divine - 2021.
Is it a mirror or painting that is in front of Trixie, I can’t remember, and was her coat shiny gold with black lining.With wings to fly away.
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Narrative Life Drawing with Trixie Divine - 2021.
Lost the full list of the sentence. This cute pose and reminded me of a song from 1958 - The Lollipop song.
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Narrative Life Drawing with Trixie Divine - 2021.
A lovely pose from Trixie and and I can only remember the apples. My early Life Drawing classes at Art School would be whole days where you could luxuriate on long poses.
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Narrative Life Drawing with Trixie Divine - 2021.
This was the title and one of her amazing quick changes - is it real Brave Heart woad. The last pose of the class an for this portrait I got more loose with my drawing.
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The hospital in Taunton is a labyrinth of buildings that sprung up in the grounds around the old 1942 hospital, with the building maze linked by corridors and walkways. All very Greek.
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Odyssey: My Journey Back home. This is the front cover illustration from my book which references Greek Mythology, astrological cancer sign and a crab.
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in my ODYSSEY book this is the drawing about the beginning of my journey in April 2021. The biopsy cut needed to investigate the tumour that was slowing growing in my left breast.
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This was my later response to the biopsy result, carrying my iPad where all the drawings were made. Placing myself this is the way to Breast Care Clinic where I got the news.
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After all my treatments this was our meet-up place, the M&S Cafe in the hospital, where we shared all my news. The young girl is an image of our daughter who drove me to one appointment there.
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Seeing the large polo shaped CT scanner I knew I would be meeting the Cyclopes as in the Homeric epic of my journey back home. This is a line drawing using photos from my iPhone.
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Here’s my hero who drove me to all appointments in the West Country Fair, from Devon to Stroud with Somerset in between, except for just one, and you can read about that in my book.
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Passing through the cave of STRONG MAGNETIC FIELDS was my next Cyclopes - a very noisy full body MRI scan. This drawing is based on my reflected image in the changing-room mirror.
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Walking to the room for my first Chemo Session I had a strong memory of my mum holding my hand as we walked into hospital for my tonsil operation, aged 7. This is me in my party dress.
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This reflection in my mirror at home was my comb-over breakdown moment when my hair started to fall out. As I gingerly brushed, it reminded me of a certain orange ex-Apprentice host.
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So this is me and my girl in our FRUITY PINK and ‘Blade Runner’ style wigs. Find more about that in the book as you sing “Put on your red dress baby, and wear your Wig Hat on your head”.
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On the invitation of my Macmillan nurse I attended a ZOOM call with a make-up expert. One really helpful exercise was how to draw eyebrows, especially useful as they disappear.
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Sitting in my red ChemoSabe chair undergoing the first cocktail of 3 powerful drugs. This multi headed monster I named SCYLLA and like Odysseus I have to fight it through 4 long sessions.
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This was my statement look throughout my treatment, a pink wig and sunglasses. During the month of August many birthdays are celebrated, unfortunately one of my star earrings got broken.
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My 4th session of the single Chemo drug. It was a fierce monster and aptly named CHARYBDIS, like the whirlpool encountered in Homer’s tale. This was the day my PICC line was removed.
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Sunday, the night before my mastectomy operation and we take a mould of my breasts. My plan was to cast the left one in CHOCOLATE and I am still waiting to get round to doing it.
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On becoming an Amazon - another Greek myth - on the wrong side for archer! Taken on the day my bandage was removed I was shocked by it’s brutal stark reality, but I’m still standing.
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This was the start of my post-treatment iPad drawings. My hair has began to grow and I mimicked GLADYS’ pout. I loved the vector colours and chose 2 that repeat throughout my book.
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Now travelling through the constellations of Pheonix, Pegasus and Orion as I underwent my final treatments of Radiotherapy. The three machines I visited were named after these stars.
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Standing in my garden a whole year has passed since my initial appointment at the Breast Care Clinic. My hair is now fashionably cropped, salt and pepper grey and the news is ‘thumbs up’ good.
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This is the day I have a mammogram check-up. It is the first of the 5 yearly appointments that you get after breast cancer. And that day it was for only one, my right breast, and it was clear.
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