#343 Pylon

A countryside monument to electrical power.

#342 Sprig of Bay

We have been assaulting the back garden today, this is a sprig of bay that I have cut back and plan on drying out for use during the winter.

#341 Bread

Mmmmm home made bread, that I haven't had to knead!

#340 Pizza

I have made a load of pizzas today which are now safely tucked up in the freezer, apart from this one which is being slowly consumed.

#339 Bread knife

I have cut something much better than mere bread today. All I'm saying is that I made chocolate brownies this afternoon. Swoon.

#338 Paperclip Pot

I have a wonderful array of pencil pots and pen pots and brush pots. This is my garishly painted Paperclip pot.

#337 Walking Man

A red man usually means you can't walk but in this instance it means you can and should walk here. Good eh?

#336 Three Cones

One of the perks of working at a University is that there is rarely a shortage of cones. A dubious perk but a perk nonetheless. I like this selection of three different styles. Eeeeep a month from today I will be starting my next daily painting project, more info about that if you click the picture of me on the right hand side of this website. I can't wait to get going on it...

#335 Shadow of Jam Sieve & Chinois

I love shadows, strangely I have never spotted this one before from the kitchen. I have now. By the way, if you don't know what a chinois is it is like a sieve but more solid and you put gravy through it, or custard, to get the lumps out. Not that we have lumpy gravy or custard.

#334 Pepper Mill

The pepper mill has to be one of my favourite kitchen tools.

#333 Fog

Lovely morning for fog lovers!

#332 Cactus

Not sure what its real name is but this is called an 'old man hairy cactus' in our house.

#331 Ralph Mayer the Artist's Handbook

This where I get my painting secrets from, if they are not in here I make them up. I've not been caught out yet!

#330 Tree

But not just any tree, this is my favourite tree in Cheltenham. It is one that most closely resembles a bonsai tree.

#329 Fire ALARM

Go on 'break glass' see what happens!

#328 Spanners

Who wants to see my spanner collection, you do. Here you go.

#327 Easel part

My day has been mostly been about easels; moving them, fixing them, getting splinters from them and now drawing them.

#326 Spiky leaves

No idea what this plant is but it is definitely spiky and it looks good with sunlight coming through the kitchen window.

#325 Canvas

Canvas is ready.

#324 Pop

It must be a human flaw that when you feel awful you crave the worst food for your recovery?

#323 Gloves

Not a good day for drying the gardening gloves.....

#322 Taco

I seem to be playing 'what did we have for dinner' a lot recently!

#321 Bug

A bitey one I think, eek!

#320 Portion of Chips

Guess what we had for tea....

#319 Snapdragon

An untidy but pretty little corner of the garden, this snapdragon has been growing and flowering all summer. It was planted, and flowered, last year! Good value.

#318 Glue Pot

The next stage in preparation of next years daily canvas. Today is glue making day. I have to be careful not to burn it because it stinks.

#317 Scissors

Zoomed into yesterday's picture and plucked my favourite scissors for today's picture.

#316 Canvas and Tools

I am fifty days away from completing this years daily digital drawings. So, I am also fifty days away from starting next years single painting, more details on my sponsorship page on the right or visit the page here . Aaaanyway this is the actual canvas I will be using for next years picture, I can't wait to get started. Priming next.

#315 Capsicum

I can't believe I haven't 'done' a capsicum pepper this year, a staple of Dan Young, Daily over the years. It's usually about this time of year I start to think about those things that I may not have painted yet but wanted to....

#314 Popcorn

I got my appetite back today, hooray. I actually fancied some popcorn, hooray. We had some popcorn, hooray. Not hooray. It had gone stale and wouldn't pop. This picture represents pretty much all I got.

#313 Grape Stalk

This is the first ever bunch of grapes I have ever been involved in growing. As I was picking off the tiny fruits I thought 'this would have made a great subject for today's 'daily' '. It may have been better with more grapes on? But I have always liked grape stalks with their gnarly bark like branches.