GG nearly nude

A present from a husband to his gorgeous wife.

She's like a little ballerina.

The not so Quiet Zone

Ultimate Social Sterotype old fart.
Almost painful to listen to. Urgh.

Beautiful Amazonian-looking girl with hair even longer than mine. 
And she wore it better.

And sometimes, the most captivating subjects won't. sit. STILL.

You know you've grown up too much when you get the train back from the Isle of Wight with Bestival goers, and choose the Quiet Zone carriage to escape the gurning come-downs and Instagrammers. 

Sweet William

 

These are a few drawings I did this Summer of William. Gosh he's sweet.

Matilda

A drawing of Matilda, and some supporting scribbles.

She is really sweet.

Very Naughty Little Lovelies

Nearly Nude -
Untying Pink Panties

Nearly Nude -
Untying Red Panties

These very naughty little lovelies have just found a new home.

Swapped, for Oil

I sold a drawing today. Well, I swapped it. For a tank of oil.

What a glamorous life I lead.

It's my blog profile picture.

Barnhill, Isle of Jura

I went up to magical Jura last week for a few days. It took as long to get there and back but was completely worth it. I did some sketches, some good, some atrocious. I was too busy marvelling at the beauty of the island, all in a deliciously hazy Stongbow dream. Bliss.

There were sea eagles, goats and seals - oh my!

We spotted the odd unicorn too, but that might have been the Strongbow.

Barnhill, Jura

Flirts

A while ago I did a drawing for a Singles Dinner and now I've some more little lovelies flirting their way onto Leonora Draws for another evening of relative debauchery, held last night in London. 

The Independent Lady

So I guess I ought to share that I've been coat-tailing Lux Fix's fabulousness. And it rocks.

They were in The Independent in print and online last week, with their accompanying little lady of mine. 

Blink and you'll miss her, but there she is, rocking along with lovely Lux Fix.

And on line... 

This is what they said about Lux Fix - 

We love: Getting our fix

Lux-fix is a new members-only boutique that's free to join and brings customers pieces direct from the studios of 50 designers courtesy of a weekly email and pop-up shops as well as a common or garden online shop.

lux-fix.com

The Independent

Lux Fix

In The Pink

Ahem. Apologises. Again.

Slightly blushing with tardiness. Again.

Sharing my Sunset

The rather apocalyptic sunset from my studio window last night.

Not a bad place to work.

ja event management

Argh... the lovely Jeremy of JA Event Management has tweeted and posted about my invitation and place cards he saw last week. He does properly fun and super swanky parties. I'm pretty enamoured by the graffiti house party on his blog, it looks so much fun. I wish I'd been at that one, I'd have felt like an extra in Skins. The Venetian rooftop dinner is definitely better than a kick in the teeth too. Sigh... What a dude.

ja Event Management

Mustique

I went on the holiday of a life time a couple of years ago to stay with a friend on Mustique. It was seriously spoiling and beyond amazing. It really is as wonderful, and bonkers as you hear.

The Tannery

This is one of my earliest, and probably favourite diary drawings.

It is at the Tannery, synonymous for me with adventures when I was little.

College (feat. Electric Youth) - A Real Hero

Listen to this.

It's set to be my song of the Summer.

Pretty Place Cards

I did some place cards for a 'Singles Dinner' over the weekend.

They were fun to do, although my neck hurts something rotten from bending over all day (yikes that sounds wrong - obviously in a completely unkinky way!)

I also did a little sketch for the email reminder on the day.

I think she's appropriately sexy for the party...

Studio Oil Paints

I'm going through my paints at a rate of knots at the moment.

I had a little break from painting this afternoon and sketched some of the tubes of oil paints on my desk. I am in love with my Zecchi and Old Holland ones.

Fellow Travellers

I went up to London for Easter and as I got on the train in the remotest of Welsh stations, I realised I'd forgotten my laptop, iPod and book. Urgh. In fact, over five hours of urgh. So I surreptitiously sketched some of my fellow travellers when I thought they were't looking. Please take into account that they all seemed to have ants in their pants and didn't sit still, and the jiggliness of the train (especially the Welsh Arriva line).

This man lady (left) scurried on and smelt of curry 

& this lady (right) manically chewed gum (but sweetly pointed out I'd dropped my headphones)

I peeked between the seats to sketch this voluptuous Indian girl

clutching her Louis Vuitton handbag at Birmingham.

The man (left) was terrified of missing his stop

& this lady (right) on the way back to Wales had an enchanting bull terrier at her feet.

Sera Monastery, Tibet

I've been wasting hours of my life on Pinterest of late. It's shameful. I can't seem to tear myself away from images of South East Asia. So while I am away from  internet access and joining the land of the living over Easter, I'm scheduling this post of another little oil painting. This time it's of the debating monks at the Sera Monastery outside Lhasa in Tibet. It is a rare moment of calm for them, they're quite lively! Anyone who has been there will know what I mean.

Sera Monestry, Tibet
December 2010

Happy Easter!

Bring on the chocolate sweats.

♥