I've more hobbies and interests than I know what to do with and I honestly don't know how I fit them all in. Apart from my love of drawing and painting, other things I do for relaxation is to play the classical and flamenco guitar and I try to get an hour of play in each day. My favourite classical guitarist is Julian bream, see a video excerpt


 

Birdwatching is a great hobby to do and which gets me out of doors and gives me some good exercise, birding makes you alert to what's going on around you, it has also its surprising moments and gives you a good sound knowledge of nature which can only and does help my drawing and painting. Sometimes I go out birdwatching and I suddenly see a scene which I would love to draw or paint so its a toss up in what gets the nod but usually drawing or painting wins the day and out comes the pencils and paints and away goes the binoculars.

Photography is another interest of mine and I use the camera mainly for taking pictures to draw or paint and photographing birds but mainly I try to take some good pictures of landscapes to paint, again it is good for my artwork as it helps you to compose a picture. I have an Olympus 410 which I think is adequate for taking photographs of birds and landscapes amongst other things.

Other smaller interesting hobbies that I have are digital photograph restoration and there are some examples of this type of work here  >>  tropical fish keeping is another lesser hobby of mine, I am also a very good improver of things, for example my website, I like to make it more interesting in both content and design for you the reader and a week doesn't go by without me putting up something new or different even if its just changing text to something that may sound and look better.

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