One of my new years resolutions is to continue doing a sketch a day in my diary…hoping this year they will be less covid lockdown related more painting and climate action related!
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January guests
Way way back in BC time (Before Corona) my friend Elly visited us with her daughter Sophie who is only five days older than Peach. I’ve been meaning to draw this cartoon of the visit ever since.
Updated website!
I’ve updated my website! I hope you like it. There is a new look homepage, my art gallery has been updated and there are prices and contact information if you would like to buy any of my acrylic paintings or watercolours. I’ve also updated my commissions page and if you have any cartoon requests pleaseContinue reading “Updated website!”
Messing around in the ‘studio’ with my daughter
In September 2018 we demolished our old asbestos ridden garage and turned it into a new half bikes & gardening stuff storage space half art studio for myself and our daughters. Peach at 16 months old is a bit too young yet to do any painting, but because of the bonus half term week thatContinue reading “Messing around in the ‘studio’ with my daughter”
Collage
My five year old and I made a collage of a select few of her artworks (I serruptitiously binned the rest otherwise our house would be knee deep in her drawings within a few years) . I think my favourite period of her work so far is the way she drew people at age threeContinue reading “Collage”
Clock change
Now that I have two small children I hate the winter clock change with a passion. This year it has taken more than two weeks for Peach (the youngest, 16 months) to wake up past 6 a.m..
Twins birthday gift
For privacy I haven’t included the final image, but I edited my drawing on the computer so that the twins names and date of birth were written on the tree trunk. And voila! a (only slightly!) belated birthday gift for my friend’s daughters.
Trying to concentrate but..
At the moment I have no idea how long I have before one of us gets sick, someone in our bubble gets sick and we have to quarantine, or Belgium goes into full on lockdown mode again and we have no more help with childcare.
Sketch a day
My new year’s resolution was to draw a sketch a day in my diary of something that had happened during that day. During lockdown it was one of the few things that helped to keep me sane, and it’s been a really nice way of recording our second daughters progress.
