Strawberrykitten

Well yesterday began with a sale, fantastic! Sales seemed to have slowed over the past week, other than one I sold to a friend and a special one I’m working on for a friend at work, it was good to know they are still selling to the outside world.

So work was brilliant yesterday as we did a ‘stop the track’ day where we did nice little activities all day. I chose to do floristry and life drawing. Floristry was harder than I thought it would be, but really enjoyable, here’s my bouquet

Life drawiing in the afternoon was fantastic, with me trying to draw a lot more at the moment it was one I was really looking forward to. Plus it was with all my old art tutors who made me feel really good and welcome I forgot how hard and exhausting it was, but I’d love to keep it up with an evening course maybe. Here’s my favourite drawing I did

On an annoying note the Market stall has run out of (and might not get more for months) the brown fur I use. So I’m going to have to source it from somewhere else, otherwise I might have to take Frank the bear out of the shop which would be a shame as he’s my favourite.

I think i’m behind with this post – i’ve had a few issues with my back due to being 7 months pregnant and it’s getting quite difficult to sit at a desk for a prolonged length of time.  So crafting and blogging is being done a bit at a time!

Here’s this weeks etsy favourites…

[left] how pretty is this necklace? And the color is stunning! It’s by bbel [middle] what an awesome idea, I love it! And it actually works as a phone too! It’s by freelandstudios [right] this is such a sweet little ladybug keychain by leatherprince.

[left] I love the pink blossom blowing off this tree wall decal, it’s by nouwall [middle] I have a real thing for animal themed jewellery at the moment and just love this simple fox pendant, it’s by joannarutter [right] I am in need of an iphone case at the moment and how stunning is this one!?! I love the leather work and pattern – check out the ipad cases in the shop too, just need a ipad! Hehe it’s by tovicorrie

Just a quick post tonight – I wanted to share my racoon sketch – every spare minute I get, after resting my extremely painful back and ribs (struggling with pregnancy at the min :/ ) I’m really trying to get some drawing done. today I’ve worked on a bit of character development, it needs a lot of work but it’s enjoyable work

I don’t know what made me do the first little bear painting, but I enjoyed and liked him so much I decided to start something I’ve always wanted to do – make a picture book. Now I have a serious picture fetish! Love love love the illustrations – here’s some of my absolute faves…

So because I’m trying to get my bears selling I decided to make Frank the brown bear one of the charactors. The other charactors are taken from this photo of my mum and her cat.

[I adore this photo!!]

here’s my illustrated version of her that i’ve been working on, bear in mind it’s a work in progress so far, have lots of experiments to do before i find the right medium for my style, although i do love watercolours…

I really hate showing this kind of work, i find it embarrassing, this post is the first time my husbands even seen this image too as i prefer to have a final finished product to show off, but everyone at work (while using works reprographics department) were very complimentary so i decided to share

I’m hoping this will transpire into paper goods I can sell in my shop, along with stickers and prints etc all centred around these few characters.

I’ll keep you posted on the books progress – i’m sure it will be a lengthy one!