Thursday 5 January 2012

Spring has arrived!

Well ok it has arrived in UFO land

 Little petals are painting in the leaves after school

 The cat, I wanted a Meg and Mog style cat
(although a little less eek as Mog so rightly looks perched on Megs broom)
it was ok up to here, but then I added dark pink stripes
and it will HAVE to be redone, me no likey.
 The owl relocated to a higher branch for safety.
 The castle is coming on,
can't do the door as littlest Petal has reserved the rights.
 I decided not to outline in black as it can make or break a picture and I rather thought break would be the case here, so I went for the same colour as the tree and I'm rather chuffed with my choice.
 After school and we crack on, I have to say she was rather good. 
I love this pic as is shows the scale, I hadnt noticed how the earlier pics don't highlight this.

 Castle is almost there now, just needs some light reflections and detail on the door and flags, plus a few more windows and perhaps a damsel in the tower?

 I want to do a fairy but I struggle with faces and bodies, I have been trawling through some of littlest's library books which have some fantastic sketches/artwork in them.  Fairy Bears are amazing, but not really something I am up to recreating.  I love the butterflies here (on an ancient T-shirt of mine) the swirly theme fits but I only want their wings.
This is my sketchy idea, I can swirly it up once on the wall.

One last thing in case any dog lovers are reading.  No 4. on my list I think - Puppypie has visited the vet and is now on a 21 day course of antibiotics I am several £££ lighter and hoping this will sort her tummy out once and for all - here's to the 15 following years in good health.

Keep reading. xxx

4 comments:

  1. Lucky little petals. What a great job.
    On the doggie front..is yours insured? We haven't sorted any out yet and can't decide. Vet is very expensive isn't it but so is insurance!

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  2. Love it! LOVE IT!!!!!
    Reflections????? can you teach me please? am okish on shading but i can only do a reflection on an apple.... for shame and i say i can draw.....
    Great job - cant wait to see the end result. How lovely that the children have had a hand in it too.
    Mxxxx

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  3. You've certainly been hiding your talents under a bushell, I'm really amazed at your creativity. Love Liz x

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  4. x Yes Lollipop is insured thank goodness. Little Petal JUST LOVES IT MUMMY - yay I'm very pleased. More to do at the weekend though.
    x Reflections - I'm going to have a stab at it and then ask K to sort it out for me if I mess up.
    x Thanks Liz, lovely to hear from you, hope you're all well, Corky included.

    Nik

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