It's Here!!

 Look what came in the post today!  My copy of the Nudinits book, a couple of weeks before it is published.

 It's got my name in it and everything!

 Front and back.

There are patterns, stories, lots of double and triple entendres, pictures and things to make you laugh.  It can be pre-ordered from the Nudinits website.

I'm a little bit over-excited....

Also been putting in some hours on this - it's nearly done.

Bearly There...

Sometimes I get an overwhelming urge to paint something and it has to get done, no matter what else is on the agenda.  This painting is one of those!  It is of a mother bear and her cub at Katmai National Park in Alaska, and I am using a photograph taken by one of the commenters on the Explore.org forum who actually went there this summer.  I'm using Derwent Inktense pencils, one of my favourite mediums.  Trying to squeeze this in amongst actual paid work has been interesting...I'm afraid housework and gardening has had to take a back seat, but there's nothing wrong with that!

Poppy

Just a little something I knitted for a friend.

Double Trouble...

...except this wasn't trouble at all, it was great fun - I always enjoy a dog portrait.  Derwenr Drawing Pencils on tinted watercolour paper.

If you fancy a pet portrait do get in touch, but if it is for Christmas, I only have a couple of slots left for pencil/watercolours only.

One Down, One To Go...

I completed the first dog in this double portrait today - now on to the saluki.  I had a bit of a problem when I first attempted the saluki, burst into tears unexpectedly as it reminded me too much of Clovis.  I think I can hold myself together this time!

Derwent Drawing Pencils on tinted watercolour paper.

Owl...

Although I've not been blogging much lately, I have been busy.  This week I designed and knitted a small owl - it was quite difficult!  The wings were the problem, it took me several attempts to get them how I wanted them and at one point I was wondering if I would ever get them right.  Thankfully, after a lot of thinking and workings out, they finally ended up looking like wings and not amorphous lumps!

You'll be seeing him in action later on in the year...

Double Dog Portrait

...coming along nicely!  Derwent Drawing Pencils on tinted watercolour paper.