Smaller Works

I hope everyone has been having a lovely Easter and enjoying the break. Yesterday we had our egg hunt as I mentioned in the previous post, that went well and the Easter bunny left lots of cadburys creme eggs in the garden (I think he even left one for me ;0) it didn't take Max too long to find them and I gave him a bit of help as we were rushing out to a family lunch. It was a really lovely Easter Sunday - good food and company.

That's us half way through the Easter holidays here and surprisingly I've had a fair bit of time to do some painting. I've been doing a mixture of A5 pieces and also some ACEOs, I really like working on a small scale I have to admit. I'll share with you the smaller ones today and I'll probably pop back later in the week to show some of the larger artworks.

This little lady is called Dance Through Life and I painted her on a 4 x 4 inch square (approx) I don't usually paint on squares. I thought she looked like she had been twirling and just stopped.

I created two new ACEOs - the first is called Thought Bubbles, I think I always feel like I go through every day in a bit of a haze, I like the abstract shapes and mark making surrounding my ladies to give a feeling of this, I'm sure I'm not the only one - I hope!

The Second ACEO is called Mind Alight, it's about ideas coming into your head, I think the pink swirls look a bit like fireworks.

I've put these ladies into my etsy shop at a reduced rate for a limited time. I've also been quite busy this week on custom orders and hopefully there will be a blog post coming very soon to show these, I don't like to blog about custom orders until they are with their new owner and I know they are 100% happy. I like getting custom orders because I love to have a bit of a brief to work to and it's always a bit of a challenge to put my own style with the ideas someone has in their mind.

Easter Holidays

The schools broke up for the Easter holidays here on Friday, two whole weeks for my son off nursery, he only has one proper term left in nursery then it's up to primary one after the summer holidays, the time seems to zoom by just lately.

Last year at Easter I hadn't realised the nursery had told him about the Easter bunny hiding eggs in the garden and this wasn't something I was prepared for - I think this is maybe an American idea that the bunny hides the eggs or I might be really out of touch. Anyhow I managed to hide one in a bush in the garden and he was happy to find it. I'll be more prepared this year and will hide a few smaller ones and send him on a hunt!

As we get closer to the summer I will start working part time over the golfing season, just from April through to October. I thought I would have started by now but there was a little delay. I wouldn't be surprised if the weather caused a few further delays in terms of golfing - today we had snow, I had heard rumours of snow but didn't really believe it, I was wrong - last week sorbet and sun today the snow boots and winter coat were out!

I have been doing some drawings lately but you know me by now and the phases I go through - I like this, I don't like that, my work comes in floods. One drawing I did lately that I like was the little face below, I thought she looked like the moon, or what the moon would look like if it was a girl. I hope you like her too.

I hope you all have a lovely Easter weekend whatever you have planned, here's hoping the sun comes back :0)