November- Naughty or Nice

I hope you have all been enjoying the last week of activity for Halloween and Guy Fawkes. Here we dressed my son up as a skeleton for Halloween (a rather creepy one) and he took delight in frightening everyone all day from our fish man to the neighbours. He went to school dressed like this (for the party), swimming lessons like this and then asked if he could wear it to bed too!

 

We ended up not going out to any firework displays this year as we had a couple of family parties at the weekend and I think my son was a bit tired out from it all so it was early to bed last night.

 

I have been creating some new artwork, mainly ACEOs but I will create larger pieces soon. These are still in a similar line to the last few I made with rather a wintry feel. I'll show you a few of them-

 

 

 

I quite like the faces of these little ladies, the only thing I've changed a little bit in my work lately is how I have been painting their eyes- usually I draw the eyes in with ink but I've been painting eyes with browns and aquas in gouache and quite like the results. These little ladies are of course available for sale in my etsy shop.

 

 



A Nip In The Air

It's very chilly here at the moment and we definitely feel like we are well on the way towards winter. I quite like this time of year, when the leaves fall of the trees and you can walk along crunching them in the cold autumn air. My wardrobe agrees with me and around 70% of my clothes are winter clothes, I love knitwear, boots and wool coats. Halloween and Guy Fawkes are always exciting too- my son has his skeleton costume lined up for the Halloween party and we have a pumpkin just waiting to be carved. Last year we went to a huge fireworks display on the 5th November so I'm keeping my eyes peeled for a similar event nearby this year.

In terms of new work I have been creating a few new ACEOs lately that I wanted to share with you- with quite a winter theme.

 

 



I hope you like them, they are still quite light and whimsical but with a slightly chilly feel. I'm not sure what I was thinking with the last one but she made me laugh when I saw her appear on the paper- I thought where did you come from running round like that in the cold, but she seems quite pleased with herself!

 

All these ACEOs are available in my etsy shop and at the moment, for a limited time (until I run out, I only have a few) with each order in my shop I will pop in a free surprise Christmas card and matching envelope- just mention the offer on etsy at time of order- It doesn't matter how much the spend.