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