Matthew Midgley Illustration

Lunch at a Bistro pub in Hebden Bridge – delicious food and a warm and cosy atmosphere.

I stumbled across the website Color Hunt the other day – https://colorhunt.co/

With thousands of free colour palettes, under a range of categories.

Each of the palettes has a range of 4 colours within the theme and there are a multitude of palettes for each theme.

Well, I’ve taken a leap – and for me, a pretty huge one! After years of working purely in sketchbooks, I’ve started working digitally.

I’ve written before about finding it harder and harder to see my own drawing work close up, and I haven’t been posting, well, because my drawing work kind of dried up. I hadn’t considered moving to digital work because I’d always avoided working on my drawings to…

Pork Pie with Stilton

Bought from my local, friendly farm shop.

Sometimes it’s nice to have the simple things in life; the simplicity of a pork pie, on it’s own. Delicious

  Actually, sketching this out reminded me that I’ve got a pork pie tin somewhere in the kitchen – I went on a pork pie making course a couple of years ago (incredibly easy to do) but I’ve never delved into having a go at following the course at…

So … how’ve you been?

Okay, okay … I know it’s been a while. In fact, it’s been a long, long while. But not without reason, unfortunately. About mid-November, last year, I noticed that I was having to take off my glasses to read. I went for an eye test and the optician suggested that a new pair of glasses wasn’t really necessary and that taking off my glasses to read would suffice. The trouble with this diagnosis was…

So, with a distinctly sprouty feel – I present my Christmas cards – all shiny and new and ready for boiling for 5-10 minutes.

Christmas Card Designs 2016

Well, that’s my Christmas Cards designed for this year. Just need to get them sent off to be printed.   I’ve gone for a sprout theme

Recipe card for Chicken and Sweet Potato Curry

I’ve written about this recipe before; a Vietnamese Chicken and Sweet potato curry. The last time I illustrated it, it was in the dimensions for They Draw And Cook, for which I had to adhere to specific dimensions;  except I worked on the dimensions in portrait, rather than landscape. I liked the way that the ingredients are all tumbling into the cooking pan at the bottom. I’ve recently…

A week of meals

Last year I had a fun time drawing my food for a week –  over a double A4 spread. So, I’m about to embark on it again – I’ll try to keep you a bit more up to date on this wacky drawing.  

Ooh! My notebook arrived!

A couple of weeks ago I brought you up to speed with a little project I’ve been working on for the past couple of weeks. A bit of a crazy notebook thing .. It all looks pretty normal on the outside. I’ve enjoyed planning out one or two projects using notebooks and thought it would be quite fun to try to design a notebook that I can use to project plan. Now, I prefer to use A5 notebooks that I can…

Over the Summer I’ve been tussling to create some kind of products. I produced a couple of little booklets about drawing food earlier in the year, for an online Sketching course I was on with Sketchbook Skool. Focus and Location And from those I created a little deck of drawing cards, which are quite fun to shake things up a bit with your drawing. (And then there’s my ‘naughty “50 Shades of…

Hmm, not quite sure what I am anymore …

We’re talking 2009 when I discovered Danny Gregory’s approach to drawing when I first started drawing again. (I realise that it is grammatically impossible to ‘first start drawing again’, but my pre-2009 drawing wasn’t really, truly drawing for a purpose, it was aimless drawing, drawing for the sake of producing a picture of a pretty scene. I was going through the motions, but I didn’t know who I…