Weekly round up - 4th August 2014

A busy week again. It's hard to work during the school holidays. Hard but not entirely impossible!

I'm working on updating my portfolio again. Here is what's been going on in my sketchbook this week:

Chickpea loves blowing dandelions. If only they'd stop landing in my garden!

I've been drawing lots of cats this week.

Chickpea has been very noisy this week (and every week). Always turned up to 11.

An idea for a little monster.

Arrrr! Pirate Ted - I have a small idea for a story about him. 

Finally Chickpea has learned to whistle. Which is lovely. If only she wouldn't whistle ALL the time!

Thanks for taking the time to look at my blog. Have a good week,

Teri

Weekly round up 29th July 2014

I'm working on some large pieces and commissions so not a lot of time for anything else this last week. However, here are some pictures from my sketchbook:

There were a few Daily Doodles for the Alice in Wonderland topic:

 

I've been trying to work a little bit more loosely (only a little bit...)

After last week's Witch and Wizard topic (see the last blog post) I have carried on drawing the witch:

I also decided to draw a load of cats:

This was my favourite:

Thanks for taking the time to look at my blog.

Have a great week,

Teri

Weekly round up - 20th July 2014

It's been a busy week entertaining Chickpea as she's already on summer holidays. We even made a small puppet theatre out of a shoe box:

 

I think we will have a go at making some shadow puppets this week as she loves playing with torches.

From my sketchbook this week:

This little character turned up which I like

Also for @Daily__Doodle a Garden Gnome

And A Day at The Zoo, also for @Daily__Doodle:

This, well, I can't imagine where this idea came from:

Another @Daily__Doodle witches and wizards:

I've also managed to write a draft of a story. It had been kicking around in my head for a couple of days and then splurged out into my sketchbook all in one go. I'm quite pleased with it and I have already started sketching out some character illustrations. I will just have to see where this goes!

Thanks for stopping by. Have a good week,

Teri.

Weekly round up 13th July 2014

What a busy week! Chickpea finished nursery forever and so there have been much shenanigans going on. I've been Daily Doodle-ing and also some personal pieces too.

From my sketchbook for @Daily__Doodle with Caterpillar Books:

The topic was ROAR 

I tried some new pens and then ended up doing three different versions for this

I obviously enjoyed that topic!

Then the next Daily doodle was HOOT!

 

Up next was ZOOM! I found the time to colour this one.

The last Daily doodle I had time to do was PEEK-A-BOO:

Chickpea had fun trying to find all the squirrels. 

Then there were a few other pieces I completed as presents this week. 

A couple of pictures were for Chickpea's teachers as a thank you. They have been fabulous and it was very sad to say goodbye to them:

Finally a friend's son was baptised on Saturday so a picture for them too: