This weekend I went to stay with my friend (and very talented mixed media artist) Jeanette Maisy House in Shaftesbury. The lovely girl bought me a new A5 handmade sketchbook, made by Helen Smith of Hypsela to match the smaller A6 one I had bought a few weeks ago. Whilst there, we spent some time (so I could take photographs) in the three acre landscaped garden of her parents called Breachfield. Sadly, I didn’t have a lens with me that could capture good shots of the garden, and also the light was very bad, but I did gets some great close up, bokeh and macro shots, which I will blog soon. I did a small line drawing based on some of the daisies I saw there in the A5 sketchbook she gave me.

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