I haven’t been here for ages.. sorry about that, it has been a really difficult year for me due to a range of environmental factors that I haven’t spoken about much about here. Its why my creative output has been so low.. However I’m in the process of dealing with this, which will unfortunately mean…

Hello all, I hope you are well and looking forward to the weekend? It’s going to be HOT here in London so I might just stay in my ‘woman cave’ and paint all weekend :) not really I will be visiting my sister and doing a riverside walk. I also need to tame my garden,…

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…