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Week 5 and 6 of Coloriombo
Time flies! Este Macleod’s palette is inspired by Barbara Nissim. Not the style or colours that I normally would pick so it has been a bit of a challenge. Especially page two. I do like page one though, it’s a murmuration of Starlings that my sis-in-law and I witnessed after we went to watch the… Continue reading
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Happy new year, another year.
First day of the year. This is the first time for a while I am alone in the house without my kiddies so I am going to write a quick post before they come back. It has been a very busy year for us. We have decided to move back to Darlington, put the house… Continue reading
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Shopping with toddler.
I have used my new ultramarine Rawlinsonend.com and the watercolour paint from artful watercolour box in these two drawings. This is how we normally go out. As we are living in a hilly area, and pushing the buggy uphill kills my shoulders, I usually only take my sling to go out with Juno. She loves… Continue reading
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Before bedtime
All join in! After dinner the kids were playing on the floor. I naively thought I could finally sit down and draw them quietly. But Juno stood up immediately and insisted drawing on my sketch book, then Bertie joins in to draw his sci-fi fantasy. So we sat together until bedtime. For the paint, I… Continue reading
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One of the few things we have learnt as parents 1
This is one of the drawings I did when I was pregnant. I am sure there is no quicker way to grow up than being parents. In retrospective, my husband and I seem to have turned into two completely different people after having Bertie. Like every new parent, we had a lot of false assumptions… Continue reading
Daphne Bennett 