I have a deep-seated dislike of artificial sweeteners. The taste of most (all?) of them makes me wince, and one in particular (aspartame) triggers migraines. So it’s getting increasingly frustrating that soft drink manufacturers are swapping out real sugar in their drinks and replacing it with artificial sweeteners. Barrs, I’m looking at you. Stop trying to avoid the sugar tax and just give us our sugar, don’t you realise people will rather pay more for a beverage they can drink without making themselves ill?
Archive for August, 2017
Street Art #175
Posted in Street Art, tagged art, graffiti, ha'penny steps, harrow road, london, mural, street art, w9 on August 18, 2017| Leave a Comment »
A quickie this week, this one is just near the fish on the canal towpath by the ha’penny steps (Harrow Road, W9).
Sunday Sketchblog #158 (part 2)
Posted in Sketchbook, tagged art, drawing, duolingo, italian, language learning, learn italian, painting, sketch, sketchblog, sketchbook, watercolour on August 13, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Once upon a time (three years ago, if you want me to be precise) I started trying to learn Italian. Again. I had a plan, I’d paint myself a vocabulary guide, thus neatly killing due ucelli with one stone. Alas the best laid plans of topi e uomini and all that!
I have returned to Italian once more this year, and this time I’m using DuoLingo and it’s going great. I’m 109 days in and really do feel like I’m retaining the knowledge. I did, however, add some more paintings to my vocabulary book when I first started using DuoLingo and thought I might as well pop them on here. I have vague ideas of illustrating some of the odder sentences that the app comes up with (“the penguin eats fruit” – no, no it does not!), because actually I think there’s probably a pretty funny story behind things like “the watch is in the wine” (it had to have been a hell of a party eh?).
Sunday Sketchblog #158 (part 1)
Posted in Sketchbook, tagged drawing, idraulici, idraulico, italian, learn italian, luigi, Mario, sketch, sketchbook, sketching, super mario bros on August 13, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Street Art #174
Posted in Street Art, tagged art, graffiti, london, mural, street art, tooting on August 11, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Another nice selection of street art spotted by my friend Mark. This little lot was found in Tooting (I love the first one).
Sunday Sketchblog #157
Posted in Sketchbook, tagged art, artist's block, drawing, fear of a blank canvas, fear of a blank page, fountain pen, noodler's ink, pen and ink, sketch, sketchblog, sketchbook, sketchbooks as art on August 6, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Street Art #173
Posted in Street Art, tagged art, camden, canal, graffiti, kings cross, london, street art on August 4, 2017| Leave a Comment »
A few bits and pieces I picked up on the canal while walking from Kings Cross to Camden.
