Day #158 Blue Plastic Miners lamp

I found this when we moved in to our house, it was languishing underneath the oven.

Day#157 Pencil Rubber End

I like these as objects but they are usually terrible rubbers.

Day #156 Penknife

Not just any old penknife, oh no, this one has had a new handle made out of our old willow tree, by me! I had a wonderful day whittling this out of a willow branch.... I hope it doesn't warp itself off!

Day #155 Chopsticks

We've got beef stir fry tonight mm mmmm... I'm going to use these to eat it with. I will also get my bib out. (any excuse for a painting)

Day #154 Dog Biscuit

I *may* have *mentioned* to our neighbour that their dog *might* need to stop barking at us every time we go outside....oh dear.

Day #153 Chalk

The charcoal was begging for some chalk to be laid across it. I duly obliged.

Day #152 Watering Can Rose

I watered the garden tonight, I love watering the garden after work, very relaxing....

Day #151 Amoxycillin

Nearly finished my antibiotics.

Day #150 Cue Chalk

While I was thinking about today's painting all I could think about was finishing it and watching some snooker, I know, I know. I am the most exciting person you know about.

Day #149 Chives

Chives in our salad and in my painting from the garden.

Day #148 Weed

It's time to weed the garden, it almost seems a shame to pull these little purple chaps out. Almost.

Day #147 Garlic bulb

It is national garlic day today! Not much to add to that except, Hooray.

Day 146 Black Cloth

Well it looks like this is the highest contrast area of the painting.

Day #145 Apple Core

I love apples, this one used to be a cox.

Day #144 Candle

I might light it another day....

Day #143 Ladder

A bit of a flight of fancy today, I wanted a way of linking the shelf and the table top, and a ladder seemed to me to be the obvious solution.

Day #142 Tulip

I am spending the afternoon watching the Amstel Gold race which is a Dutch classic. So, I painted a tulip from the garden, which is also a Dutch classic!

Day #141 Shelf

I have run out of places to put things so I have painted a shelf, to put things on.

Day #140 Ear Plugs

The only way to sleep sometimes....

Day #139 Stone Mouse

This little chappie was painted by Debbie when she was a little stone painter.

Day #138 Dead fly

I can't believe it has taken me this long to paint an insect!

Day #137 Solera

If I wasn't painting everyday I would probably be making guitars and ukeleles and other exciting stringed instruments. This solera is used in acoustic instrument building this one I made for a ukeleles I am planning, these things take time you know!

Day #136 Canary

So, today is national 'Draw a Bird' day. Yep its a real thing! You can find out about it here, http://www.dabday.com/ I know I have twisted the idea a little and painted a stitched bird! But I don't think anyone will mind, particularly any Norwich City fans out there!

Day #135 Mushroom

Nearly time to eat em!

Day #134 Chopped Wood

We spent a good portion of the day chopping down a pair of trees from the back garden then the rest of the day moving bit of the trees from the back garden and recovering from chopping down the trees from the back garden. Here I have painted a piece of the tree from the .... You get the idea..

Day #133 Feather

I was doing a bit of feather dusting today, unfortunately our feather duster is shedding its feathers... It must be summer!

Day #132 Dead E string

I couldn't tune my E string today, so I took it off and ordered a new set. Simple.

Day #131 Balloon

I simply can't come up a reason for painting a deflating balloon. But that hasn't stopped me before!

Day #130 Packing Tape

This stuff gets everywhere! I've painted this today as I took down and packed up my #CotswoldLandscapes show, a little sad to see it taken down but looking forward to a 'lie in' tomorrow! Roll on the next show - 'Dan Young, Daily 5 years and Counting' 27th November to 3rd December later this year. In which I will be showing a selection of every year of DYD.

Day #129 Oyster Mushrooms

It is very exciting in our mushroom growing area! These little fellows (aka primordium) have started to poke their mushrooms heads up over the past couple of days. I can't wait for our first homegrown mushroom omelette!