RASPBERRY COCKTAIL ....

Here's the third addition to the Cocktail Collection ....

It's a bit more classic than the other 2 pairs ... now should it be a Raspberry Bellini or a Kir Royale ... any other suggestions?

SPRING SHOES 2

Spring is in the air again.

Second in the new series ... maybe the cocktail collection ....

Watch this space!

A SPRING IN MY STEP!

Oh dear .... scraping the barrel with that pun!

A nice spring-like shoe portrait to put me in the mood for some decent weather!

Much cleaner portrait as a start of a potential new card series .... clean illustrations, white background .... we'll see what response it gets.

SPRING FLOWERS

Now for something a bit different.

I really admire the painter Shirley Trevena so thought I'd give her approach a bash on this loose bunch of tulips & hyacinths ... and I enjoyed it!

Odd to start with no final painting in mind - just to throw some colour on paper and take it from there and think about the composition as it happens instead of planning it all. I did go in and draw with some white ink in the end though ... I just had to have a bit of line!!!!

It's still taped to the board here but I think it might work quite well cropped in with a nice big white mount .... very 'springy'! ... unlike the misery I see when I look out of the window!

Might try more like this and see where it goes.

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I THINK IT'S FINISHED ....

It's difficult to know when a painting is finished ... but I think the Ballet Shoes commission is complete.

Am starting to fiddle with bits now and risk losing some of the looseness.

Will live with it in the living room for a day now and if I don't feel pained by any of it, then I think it's done!

... and obviously I DO need the thumbs up from my lovely commissionnee also!

STAGE 3 Ballet Shoes

I believe this is stage 3 ... bit more depth and detail.

STAGE 2 .... AGAIN! Ballet Shoe Commission

OK - think we're on the right track now!

My initial bash at the ballet shoes just wasn't working for me: overworked, overloaded and too tight ... so in my great wisdom on Tuesday, I washed if off and started again ...

It's looking a bit better now, good brushstrokes on the shoes, and happy with the rich red with hints of orange and pink in there.

Lot more work to do but am much happier with this stage now!

Ballet Shoes commission begins

Here is the first stage of the ballet shoe commissioned painting.

It's a bit of a ropey phone photo but its' just to gauge the size and composition at this stage.

Fitting nicely within the 20" x 10" brief