Happy New Year, everyone.
I haven't been in Blogland for a while but I've been busy sketching and painting, one of my many favourite things.
Happily Erika at "Art Journal Journey" is asking us to make art on the theme "Favourite Things".
On our last get-together I asked my friend June to choose any drawing from one of my black ink sketchbooks for me to paint in colour and she chose this one. It's the middle one in front of Anastasia.
The new painting, now 4 x 6 inches
Here it is photo-edited with black and recoloured slightly
and in a different colourway.
Of course I had to make cards. Who has ever had enough cards, especially at this time of year.
The cards are displayed by Anastasia. You might notice that she is wearing her tartan Christmas ribbon.
All the teddies get Christmas ribbons in December.
I'm currently filling up a new sketchbook, handmade by my friend J., with small colour sketches.
I'll show you more of these next time.
I've also knitted three new pairs of socks and on to the fourth.
These were made from many left-over balls from previous socks.
I've got much more to show you, so see you again soon.