Daphne Bennett

Busy busy busy with kids still. Juno has just turned two and maybe it’s me or maybe it’s the two year old curse, she has been a bit difficult, to put it mildly, and I am more overwhelmed than anytime last 2 years. Still easier than the days when I went solo with Bertie and Carl was away.

These 3 drawings are some of my latest. A bit of visual diary. There are so much restriction and limitation for me to draw, time is scarce, attention is fragmented, if not impossible, most of the time I can’t sit at my desk for a long stretch of time before someone looking for me.

I will have to redo the top one. This picture is how I wriggle through some of my days, to knit, to read, to do some drawing, and before you know it, she is up again demanding to nurse. I am trying to wean her off in the night, but it isn’t easy at all. She always cries and gets up at 4, which isn’t a great alternative either. I like this picture but the details aren’t well-planned enough and I struggle to finish it.

Lower right is my Bertie. It’s my first watercolour sketch for a while. I need more work getting the scale and colours and everything right.

Lower left is Juno again. I still do pencil sketch of her when she naps whenever possible, for I know very well soon it will all be over.