A tourist in my own town, I took a different route and came across these vintage playground creatures. They seemed frozen in their innocence. I stopped and took photos.

 
This week has been all about flowers and pattern making over at Binky McKee, still working hard on setting up a shop on Redbubble. I am absolutely fascinated by pattern-making, but have never learned to do it using the tools in Photoshop until now, and it has been great fun. I became curious to see what my HEW drawings would look like in a repeat pattern, so I mocked up this simple tiled design from a detail of Before There Were Saturdays ​(2015). I know it's rough, but interesting! I am excited about learning how to do it properly, and the possibilities for making drawings based on pattern.

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The February sun has started swinging around into the house, triggering my early spring habit of going around observing shadows cast through glass.

I had a lovely surprise during the week when I received a cheque from the Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh - they sold my small drawing of a fig and rainclouds! I hadn’t been able to get any work to them for their On A Small Scale exhibition in November, owing to the house move and my studio being upside down. However, the gallery must have hung work in their keeping on my behalf - and sold this one.
A huge thank you to all at the Open Eye!

Thanks for visiting, see you next week!