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.