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I’ve updated my portfolio for 2024. Do have a little look through! (Click on the image below to open it.)

This year, I wasn’t too grabbed by the official Inktober2024 prompts. So I decided for October to do an alphabet: an Alphabestiary of Badly Stuffed Beasts – seen mostly in Natural History Museums over the years. So here they are. … Continue reading →

Brought to you by the Onion Power of AF Harrold with scribblings by me, this book has something for everyone and not entirely useful advice for every occasion.

Welcome to Sketching Weakly! Well Spring is really Springing, and here at Sketching Weakly we’ve been trying to learn to recognise more birds. At the top here you can see some of the birdlife from the cover of Money-Go-Round – … Continue reading →

Continuing Sketching Weakly’s ongoing mission to Rule the World. This post is continuing from Less Carbon Dioxide, and If Sketching Weakly Ruled the World.... Nature is our climate crash mat. Nature, in so many ways, can help buffer the world … Continue reading →

Continuing Sketching Weakly’s mission to Rule the World. This post follows on from If Sketching Weakly Ruled the World, and precedes More Nature. I was lucky enough to be part of the Oxford Citizen’s Assembly on Climate Change. It was … Continue reading →

…well, it would be a disaster, wouldn’t it? But every now and then, a bit like daydreaming about what one’s Desert Island Disc choices would be, it’s nice to imagine what one would do if unwisely left in charge of … Continue reading →

This post first appeared on Picture Book Den’s Blogspot My First Maps My first map-love as a child was my grandfather’s Reader’s Digest Atlas of the World. Now I own it, but I used to just visit it at my Grandpa’s … Continue reading →

A wander into the world of Wind in the Willows This post first appeared on Picture Book Den’s Blogspot. As a child I watched far too much TV. There was a show called Tales of the Riverbank. The stars of … Continue reading →