How do I get over this damn' fence...?

I rather like this Robert and I don't think I've seen you use watercolour very often? Great title too and I can spot the rat! The only thing I'm not sure about is what looks like, to me anyway, a giant cockerel running up the distant hill but I think is meant to be a bird in flight?

Yes a common problem he is facing - the fence. Know that well. I like the work though.

Lovely sunny scene, perhaps the rat will give him some clues eh Robert?

Hee hee....... quite made my morning, that cockerel - yes, the brush was too big for the job in hand, but this was a bit of a basic stab at the paper, so I didn't bother to lift him out.... Perhaps I will now! The rat, of course, being humane and kindly - as all rats are - will probably chew through the wire for the old gent.

I love this, Robert! There is definitely something quaintly Victorian about it, laced with your usual humor, It just makes the piece irresistible. Super work!

Well, he certainly isn't going to vault over, is he, lol! I like the narrative quality of this one, Robert - puts the house, trees etc into context, which is great.

Fences, like clubs and societies, serve one of two purposes: for keeping 'trespassers' out or 'members' in (which ultimately amounts to the same thing). Unless he's paying his neighbour a visit, I suspect this Caspar David Friedrich-like wanderer belongs to the former category. The rat is a symbolc of intelligence, energy and idealism, so he can be relied on to find a solution (like the tree he's crouching under?). Otherwise, hard cheese... PS. Lovely russet quality to it all.

Number one - I have expunged the charging cockerel going up the far hill: I couldn't get the image out of my head when Christine (evil woman; very bad.....) put it there.... And number two, Kim - you haven't been delving about inside my mind, have you? Dangerous place to be, you know....

Beautiful and accomplished work Robert and what a terrific portfolio