Back to birds...and bubbles

I showed you in my last post some of the swallows I had been sketching so I thought I'd pop back with some of my painted versions. This one is called 'A Little Bird Told Me', painted with quite cool tones of pink, blue and lilac.

This painting below is a little lady in her pyjamas dancing through bubbles with the moon and the sun.

I'd love to know if you think any of these would work well as prints...or not. I'm trying to think about my target market a bit more at the moment. I'm hoping to create a larger variety of work as I plan to reduce the amount of originals in my etsy shop as I introduce prints. I won't be getting rid of all original work though by any means, once I've got my first few prints sorted out I plan to create some new aceos. For my current ACEOs I'm having 30% off for the rest of the week with code BIRD30 for blog readers and facebook fans.

I have a busy couple of weeks ahead as we prepare for my son to finish up at nursery - lots of meetings and trips and things. Then that's us into the school holidays for a whole six weeks! I'll pop back soon to show you some of the other paintings I've been working on.

Print Thinking

In my last post I mentioned I was thinking about getting some prints for my etsy shop, well I've been having a look around and getting a few quotes through and I think I am going to get a small batch made of a few designs in sizes A6, A5 and A4. I've been creating some new work lately with prints in mind and been experimenting with adding new animals and creatures along with my little ladies.

I think having some prints in my shop could be a huge help for me. I'd like to find some popular prints then spend a bit more of my time on experimental work and also I've not submitted any work anywhere for a while- either through projects, zines or exhibitions- this is something I'd like to turn my attention to again.

One of the things you might see appearing in my work here and there are swallows. At work at the weekend we had two swallows get into the roof of the castle and as you went up to the top you could see them so clearly - they were so beautiful together, I've been sketching a few in my sketchbook. I hope they managed to get them out okay as there were about six people trying to chase them when I left for the day!

This is a page from my sketchbook but I have started to experiment with painting them as well. I'll let you know how things progress very soon.