Stars are the New Dots!

So this is the start of a 150cm x 150cm ink drawing.

It takes time, but strangely it's quite therapeutic and some what addictive.

 I need some colour inners,

 I am yet to let the kids loose on it. 

I don't trust them to not go over the edges.

Daisy said it looks like something else.

I said yes it is from the Mimi and Itchygritt story.

So the stars have re-appeared.

Ordered Chaos or Just a Mess!!

And now for a fresh clean start.....

For a new 150cm x 150cm Ink drawing - But where to start?

In the Garden Relaxing in the Sun!

 This fox looks very happy!

It was only when we moved, almost two years ago that I found out that the Iris comes out in May. On Iris's last two birthday the first of many types of Iris's come into flower. 

My Paintings Have Been Spoonflowered!

I've been having fun playing around with my paintings on Spoonflower. Here are some of the results on fabric. The colour is off, quite dull but you can get an idea of what it could be like. 

Back to Painting Big!

My Canvas has arrived!

Back to my favourite size 1m x1m. 

I started sketching this yesterday and today I've started adding colour on the base layer. 

There is no plan it is all spontaneous - 

While eating Chocolate and Cheese and drinking Green Tea!

Stop Making Excuses and Avoiding the Issue - Start With Red.

Today, like Monday I am trying to do anything but this - 

The excuses are endless.

Here are some of them.

I'm just looking for some inspiration on the computer.
I'm just waiting for the kettle to boil again as my tea has now gone cold.
Daisy has taken all the pencils to school- I can't do it then, -
Oh yes the one and only pencil left in the house is by the computer.
I need to clear my paints to use the dinning room (I do but that is a week away)
I see something about paper cutting, I then need to do more research - because that is what I should be doing or I would like to do,  I then buy a book on it anyway (despite trying 3 years ago, failing miserably)
I need to think and work out another story.
(Secretly I wish it would make me tidy up instead - but it hasn't - yet.)
The painting part is too much and too hard

So - Someone said to me yesterday, just get on with it there are no excuses - just do it the easiest possible way. It is true of course and so I have started with red and now I've started it doesn't seem so much, so hard or overwhelming.

Now for the next colour, yellow.

Mimi and Itchygritt Page 1, 3 and 4

One hot, sweaty summer’s night Mimi couldn’t sleep.

(Pg 2: 
She snuck out of her bedroom and crept quietly down stairs. She didn’t want anyone to hear her so she tiptoed into the kitchen and very carefully opened the back door.)

 Luckily the stars lit up the pathway as she ran to her most favourite place on Earth. 

She gazed at the moon.  

It was like she had never seen it before, all big and yellow.

Suddenly she heard rustling of leaves. 

There was definitely something there.

What was it?

Pg 3 and 4 as a double spread.

(The gaps in the pictures are where the text will go)