The peppers here are so huge (no doubt full of chemicals and not the slightest bit organic) that the obvious thing to cook with them is to suff them. These two were leftovers…I haven’t got into the habit of cooking for one, and I made enough to last several days!
Thu-5-Mar-2020
Here is a little sketch I did one morning (sticking to my habit of sketching before work while I still have jet lag) of my fruit bowl. Somehow my sketch made it look like I was hovering above the fruit – hence the title. I beefed up the colour with some scribbles of watercolour pencils…I do like the way I can get that dense layered look with them.
Wed-4-Mar-2020
So here I am back in Turks and Caicos (not to have a holiday on the beach but to work), staying in a place I have stayed before. One of the (very) few advantages of jet lag is that I am up early and have time to sketch before I go to work. This one was done sitting on my veranda in the morning while having coffee. I didn’t see this plant last time I was here…perhaps I wasn’t looking!
Tues-3-Mar-2020
Here is my last sketch in Turks and Caicos for a while – at the airport of course. In the background behind people queuing up for their flight is a souvenir shop selling lots of knick-knacks …hope you can spot the fish.
Thu-6-Feb-2020
My trip to Grand Turk was short but sweet – just two nights. This sketch was done on my way back to Providenciales. There is a bar at the airport called ‘The Cockpit’ and I had a coffee while waiting. This group of people decided to have a few beers while waiting….maybe they are nervous flyers…I can understand that, given the tiny weeny planes that fly between islands in TCI.
Tue-4-Feb-2020
While in Grand Turk I stayed in yet another Airbnb place and did this sketch. It was actually much nicer than it looks in this gloomy drawing, but the living room was dominated by an enormous TV, only a few feet from the couch!
Mon-3-Feb-2020
On Sunday I took a short trip to Grand Turk (even though it is south of Providenciales, they say going ‘up’ to Grand Turk here…I guess because that is where the capital is?). Anyway it was nice to be going to a different island for a change. This sketch is not of the plane I was on….for my flight we took a tiny turboprop plane, with a little door so low that I brained myself on the way in.
Sun-2-Feb-2020
I got bitten by a huge yellow wasp-like insect when hanging up the laundry last Saturday (it drew blood so bitten is more accurate than stung). It hurt like I’d had a red hot needle jabbed into my foot. Luckily by the time I drew this the swelling had gone down.
Sat-1-Feb-2020
Last sketch for the #PantryArtProject, done after a long tiring week of field visits – visiting schools. In TCI I buy drinking water in these big tubs – but as with all things plastic, I can’t bring myself to throw them away as there is no recycling here.
Fri-31-Jan-2020