Illustration Friday: Sleep

Its been forever since I blogged. How is the land of bloggers? 

I did this illustration a while ago when my 2 boys were still sharing a bunk...precious times. The youngest on the bottom bunk just turned 7 and starting to look more grown up, but still loves his teddy!

Illustration Friday: Pre-historic

I have almost fallen off the edge of bloggy world, but this weeks IF prompt caught my eye as they are giving away a lush set of pens, tho I doubt if they would send them to Scotland. 

I like drawing dinosaurs!

Illustration Friday: Pattern

Illustration Friday: Tail

Illustration Friday: Energy

This week's Illustration Friday prompt is Energy. My boys have bucket loads of it and here is a scene of our family life. Our living room is always chaos, I only wish I had the energy to tidy up!

My first Etegami

Hello, its been a long time since I blogged. The summer hols seemed to go on forever and I just cannot find peace to be creative when I have 2 energetic boys bouncing off the walls. We had good times and
a lovely holiday in France.

My youngest started school last week, this marks a huge turning point in our lives.

I now have time to sit at my table (very messy at the moment) and let the energy gather in my brain and transfer into my hand and onto the paper.  To get me started I have produced my first ever Etegami post card. Etegami is a Japanese art form, meaning word picture. It is usually done on a postcard and mailed off to a friend.  

One of the blogs I visit is etegamibydosankodebbie.blogspot.co.uk. I was delighted the the other day to receive a beautiful etegami card from Debbie. 

In return I have painted this to send back to her in Japan.

I am quite pleased with it, it is a great departure for me from my usual tight style with a fine tip or dip pen. I will definately be painting more of these in the future.

Illustration Friday: Children