Taking a Break

We don’t really have Halloween here in NZ, but it is slowly creeping in. I have already had a little Dracula toddler at the door.  Totally forgot and had to raid my chocolate stash!  Drat!  But he was so sweet and his Mum was a supper vampire (?).

I have been absent from the blogging scene for a bit and will continue to be for a while as there are things going on in my life that take up all my physical and emotional energy.

 However, I have managed to do some art this afternoon.  Below is a painting of a statue I saw on Flickr a while ago, I loved it because it looked so creepy, suitable for today!  It is Halloween isn't it?

I will try and get around fellow PPF people over the weekend.  But please excuse me if I don’t. 

Hope to see you all again in the near future.

Hugs Sharon.

Linking to Paint Party Friday

Owls

I love owls, I love drawing them and painting them.  Although I haven’t done any lately my love was rekindled last week when I discovered a blog with the most amazing whimsical owls ever, very inspiring. 

When I saw that the prompt for Illustration Friday was ‘wild’, I couldn’t help myself.  Also I had to do a drawing for my book.  Here is Barnaby with the key to the Wise Man’s secret library.

I had some other drawings in black ink and decided to test drive some inks I brought well over a year ago, lol!  They are Sennelier – shellac based ink that is very transparent.

Oh, I love, love them.  You can’t see it in the scan but the finish is like satin.

So thank you to Juliette for reminding me of how lovely owls are.

On Sundays from now on I am going to nominate the most inspiring blog I discover during the week and of course Juliette is this weeks.  Her web site is (http://juliettecrane.com)

Here is one of her whimsy owls, she also does courses on how to paint and draw whimsy. Isn’t it gorgeous!

Linking to Sunday Sketches and Illustration Friday.