Kelp Dreams

Hooray! The 2024 calendars are ready! And I have three extras, if you'd still like one.

The couriers are collecting tomorrow, and for those who wish to collect from my house, please contact me to arrange a date and time.

(Note for those collecting):

Loadshedding has scrunched things up into the end of this week and tomorrow's holiday (yay!) is scrunching back (dang!) causing an overflow into next week of Things That Need Doing. I love connecting with people and you know how much I enjoy a good natter, so I'll do my best to make time for that with everyone who'd like to. However, there are rather a lot of you collecting and only one of me (or maybe make that only half-a-me since I'm a mornings-only person at present), so if needs be my postbox is also happy to receive visitors at any time of day or night. Also, January 2024 is at the end of your 2023 calendar, if you'd like to meet up in the new year and collect them then.  Thanks for understanding!

 

This week I've been making greeting cards and starting to get the hang of my Intense coloured pencil inks — well, the basics at least — and enjoying the process quite out of proportion to the simplicity of the designs!

 

"Kelp Dreams"
(just a simple greeting card in Inktense colour ink with black, copper and silver ink pen)

As some of you may know, for some years now I've had neither the strength to wield my Brikon nor the voema to run around with it as I used to so energetically. Instead I started played around with illustration and painting a couple of years ago. I was quite delighted to find that my graphic design and photography skills translated nicely into digital painting and I really enjoyed the power that digital paint programs offer, but what with coping less and less well with computer time and my fondness for handcrafted things, I shifted to creating traditional (analogue?) art — and I'm thoroughly loving my return to the physical world of real pencils and erasers, ink pens (especially the sparkly ones!), watercolourish ink paint, paint brushes, and sort-of-squishy textured paper. (As much as I also miss Undo, my beloved, and Photohshop layers that facilitate trying things out without irrevocably messing up!) So who knows, I may be sharing my art a lottle (that was a typo, but maybe a prescient one, so it can stay!) more.