Violet...

Now things have settled down a bit since last month's slew of terrible things, I have had more time to spend at the drawing board.  I am still trying to get a commission finished that I started far too long ago, but I took a break over the weekend to draw this one.

Violet is a very special little person to me,and I did this picture as a birthday present for her mother. I used Derwent Coloursoft and Drawing pencils on a blue-grey pastel paper.  I thoroughly enjoyed every second of this one - not just for the subject matter but it felt so good to be sat with pencils in my hand after so long!

Here's how it looked framed: