I really enjoyed making the mixed media Beauty and the Beast illustration, its mainly watercolour, which I am really out of practice with, and I also used coloured pencils as well as inks.

Here is the sketch for the next fairy tale we are interpreting in Ever After 2016 I really enjoyed drawing the beast!

Here is the final version of my Little Mermaid, she is very colourful! I may make another more pastel version of her soon :)

I’ve started a new illustration course which is focused around style development and interpreting fairy tales. This weeks lesson was on The Little Mermaid, here are some early stages

I darkened the background and added a face, I’m hoping that the image becomes quite dark, almost gothic with highly contrasted highlights. But I also really like it as it is at the moment too :)

I am slowly easing myself back into painting more, I’ve identified that my lack of painting was triggered by this ‘Pink Lady’ painting https://phloem.co.uk/2016/01/27/pink-lady-is-finished/ which I really didn’t like and it sort of put me off painting. However I now realise that there are elements about it that I do like which I’ve tried to…

So, I finally managed to complete a new whimsical illustration! Yay! It felt so good to be painting with bright colours using some of my favourite supplies. It also amazed me as to how easy it was to get back into the flow of it.. I guess painting is like riding a bike, you can’t…