Happy New Year! Somewhat late are my 2019 Christmas tags – 4 little drawings of some family dogs you can download in a trimmable (trimable?) tag format. This is one of them – “Ollie”, the newest addition, a mutt of no particular breed but quite charming, sketched in pen, scanned and painted using a watercolour brush in Photoshop.

Now, New Year’s Resolutions. I only have one, and that’s to draw stuff for the sake of drawing stuff. I have this “purpose” idea – a drawing should be for a purpose. But I was watching an old movie recently (“When You’re in Love”, Cary Grant and Grace Moore, 1937) and there’s this scene when Cary Grant encourages Grace Moore (the opera singer) to sing just for the heck of it. Actually, for the joy of it. A bit like when you’re a kid, I think. So, in that spirit I drew Venus (Botticelli’s, that is) wearing an Edwardian gown. Fun, right?