Just Chillin'

It's the school holidays here at the moment. So far we've caught up with a few friends, but generally just hanging out at home chilling out.

The weather has continued to be gorgeous - we're getting just the most perfect winter days.

Today my djembe drum turned up, along with my ukelele. What I love about adding these instruments to our home is that the kids can just pick them up and have a go as well. The size of the instrument is not an issue, and both can be mastered at their own levels.

Danielle seems intent on holding it the leftie's way.

Both kids seem to be a bit of a natural with the drum, and have their own unique rhythms going on. I also taught Nathan the rhythms that I learnt at my workshop.

We headed down to the beach with a picnic lunch and a quick play.

I've been contining on with my drawing course, and heading towards the end now - currently working on portraits and facial proportions when drawing from different views/angles. I've now bought myself a little sketch pad to keep in my bag if we're out places (I took it with me to the beach today and had a go at drawing what was in front of me).

Pretty happy with these, although the 2nd one of Simon I can see I haven't given enough width to his face (gap between back of ear to inside eye should be the same distance as from the eye down to the chin) along with a few other issues (size of eyes, length of chin).