Deb won a Christmas layout competition in ‘Scrapbook Magazine’ and amongst the prizes was a ticket to a papercraft show in Birmingham. The show was yesterday, so I drove her down and whilst she was there Mia and I drove around the Forest of Arden area, east of Birmingham. This sketch is of somewhere near Fillongley, I think, and it’s where we stopped for dinner (cheese sandwich for me, broccoli & cheese baby food for Mia). Drawn in Derwent soft drawing pencils, they give any sketch a muted, soft focus sort of feel.
It’s hard to believe that just 20 minutes from the centre of Birmingham and Coventry, you can be surrounded by the most lush farmland and deciduous woodland imaginable. The air was filled with a sumptuous mix of birdsong, Mia cooing and the cup final radio commentary. Heaven.
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