Sunday Snippet

This week, I don't even think I touched my book. Nope, can't remember writing a single word.  Too make up for that, I hereby solemnly swear to finish the chapter I'm working on by next Sunday. In the meantime, here is one of the things I *did* work on this week:

S's Easter basket, made from this pattern:

It worked up really quickly and easily. As you can see from the eggs I photographed for scale, it is a wee basket, just right for a toddler, I think.

I can't wait until S sees it, but I'm saving it for the egg hunt. :D After that, she can use it as a little purse/sack.

30 Days of Donkeys

Once upon a time, I wrote down a children's story for J.

Once upon a time, I told him I would have that story illustrated by the end of 2012 (after promising spring of 2012 :-< ).

Time and again, I have failed to keep my promises because I have never hit upon an illustrative style that pleases me for the narrative. This is due to the fact that I have so far only done random little sketches.

Obviously it isn't by doing halfhearted once-in-a-while sketches that I am going to find a style that suits. Enter: 30 Days of Donkeys.  One of the first "images" that occurred to me in relation to this story was a donkey wearing mittens on its ears, so I am going to use Donkey as my muse. For the next 30 days, I will be doing one (or more if I have an idea that fires me up) donkey illustration per day in hopes that I shall, at last, home in on the type of art I want to do.

"Donkey Colt," acrylic paint and ink