I feel at the moment a little bit like I did once I go into my stride with the 30x30 direct watercolour challenge last year. Which, come to think if it, is only a couple of weeks away this year. I only wet back to watercolour to compare how well it works in some of the different sketchbooks I've accrued over the years. I liked a couple of the ones I made a fortnight or so ago that I've done more since - a couple more last weekend for example, and I also used watercolour and ink to fill in a couple of the gaps with my monopoly series. And do you know what? I really like having some colourful sketches in my sketchbook. I my current Seawhite sketchbook five out of the last nine have had watercolour applied to them. The way that dots of ink show through on purely ink sketches mean I can't really use both sides of the page anyway. So these are the coloured sketches from the Seawhite book

 This is another nostalgic sketch for me, since Osterley in Hounslow where this is set is only a couple of miles from Hanwell where I grew up. 

I've loved steam engines for a very long time, so it made sense to move on from the coaches and buses for this sketch

If you've read my blog in the last few days you've already seen this one.

The first time that I ever went abroad was to Greece in 1982 when I was 18. I had a return plane ticket to Athens, and my goal was to backpack to Crete. I really wanted to see Knossos - and I made it! 

Roll on the 30x30 challenge!