beneath my feet	thumbnails
	artist	Robyn Gardner
	title	Blackberries
	description	I drew this while staying with my brother's in the southern highlands. It was high summer and the countryside looked lovely. When I drove to pick my nephews up from school I would vary my route each afternoon, taking the opportunity to sketch whatever took my fancy on the way.   On one of those trips I found myself near a field covered in clumps of ripe blackberries. Dressed as I was in shorts and thongs, I wasn't properly clothed for blackberry picking, so I ended up with thorns in my toes and scratches on my legs as I waded through the grass. The blackberry bushes looked so lush and the berries were delicious, so I made a quick sketch of them hanging in the late afternoon sunshine, half expecting at any minute to encounter a snake making the most of the summer warmth.   (I've since realised that I fell into a classic trap for inexperienced sketchers - I got the light reflections in the berries all wrong - but I still like this reminder of the day.)