This is just a short blog this week.

I often sketch food. It is there, I am used to drawing it and enjoy it.

Most of the time it is the meal I am eating. or perhaps not eating, as it goes cold in front of me. Sometimes these are more studied, depending on the time I have and how hungry I am.

Other food sketches are when I am out with friends. They are often a quick sketch and are all about capturing the moment and occasion on the page. It doesn’t matter how detailed, it is more about being there. I can look back at the page in years to come and it will bring back memories of the occasion.

This is a drawing after an event. I brought home a few of the leftover quiche slices I took to a lunch on Sunday. I could write a very long philosophical and contemplative page about how important these lunches are. But not today.

And if you are interested, here are the colours:

FaberCastell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils

• Ivory – I use this all the time
• Creme – a newish discovery that I am using more
• Light yellow glaze – I could have used one of a few yellows from the range here
• Orange glaze – in my kit!
• Burnt ochre – I use this a lot
• Brown ochre – useful colour, not too yellow
• Walnut brown – in my kit
• Pine green – I used this for the bit of green in the quiche
• Payne’s grey – shadows
• Caput mortuum – a red-y brown – very useful for all sorts of things. This was for the pepper in the quiche