Archive for March, 2010

Turtle dreaming drawings

Sunday, March 21st, 2010

Here are a couple of illustrations I’ve done for my story idea:

Turtle Dreamings – Churning the Ocean of Milk

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

I’ve been trying to continue with my children’s story. I know that I want it to about turtles and a girl named Christine, who lives on a cliff overlooking the sea. I’ve been thinking a lot about turtles in the last few days and remembered a dream I had last year that involved my sister [...]

Moving, dancing and fragments of the sea

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

We’re emerging from a long, bleak winter, Spring is nearly here and I yearn to move. I have felt like the Mud Maid in The Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall, taking her long sleep in the earth. The figures in my pictures are stiff too, like winter, but now its time to stir and [...]

Embracing the waves

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Inspired by my recent doodles on wood and The Primavera, I’ve been working in watercolour pencils. Beginning with my own “three graces”, I went through various stages until I arrived at a picture I’ve titled “Embracing the Waves”. There’s a story that I want to entice from this picture. Perhaps a children’s story.

Hers was a [...]