The Things You Can Get Done When Given The Time...

Yesterday I actually had a day to myself.  My daughter tootled off to her Tuesday activity early in the morning, I managed to get all the outstanding housework done in record time (including cutting the grass and going to the supermarket) and was left with about 7 hours of glorious free time.  So I plugged myself in to the MP3 player to drown out the never-ending builders' noise (eight months and still counting...) and got to work.

The result being that this painting is now finished - considering how it was started, I'm very happy with how it has turned out.  There were a lot of 'mistakes' to be corrected from the haphazard way I painted it during the demonstration last week.  I'm usually very methodical, thinking out my strategy before putting pencil or brush to paper, working from the eyes outwards. There was a fair bit of white acrylic paint used on this one to bring back lost edges and cover up unruly paint!  It's very much a mixed media effort, using watercolours, ink, coloured pencils and acrylic, but hey, that's the way it goes sometimes, each painting has it's own methodology. 

Now I am free to get on with some paid work.  Two dog portraits - I love dog portraits!

Then I spent the evening completing this little lot.  The wheat has been crocheted with string.  A word to anyone contemplating crocheting with string - don't!  My fingers are very sore...