Dartmoor sketchbook: Christmas Day 2023

Big thanks to the Reeve family for hosting Stuart and me again this Christmas! We don’t stay as long as we used to, since we live just down the road now, but we love seeing them, and watching Frodo the poodle go nuts, ripping up all the discarded giftwrap.

Let’s see, for New Year’s Resolutions, aside from my regular work, I’m hoping to:

* Use my new Pooki Press for the first time with some linocut prints
* Sand down and paint some of the wooden pieces I’ve been hoarding this year
* Draw some more Devon community scenes
* Possibly come up with some more booklets/zines in the same vein as the Bovey Bestiary
* Do some more outdoor tree drawings on Dartmoor, starting with a particular line of beeches near Castle Drogo

…And outside of artwork goals:
* Learn how to ring Plain Hunt and possibly one other method on tower bells
* Be able at least to keep up with all the over 65’s in my new Pilates class