You may already know that I was made redundant 10 days before Christmas. It wasnt altogether unexpected, however still not great. But of course there are some advantages.......time to lie in bed in the mornings, potter about and do exactly what I want to do whenever I want to do it! So, this is the main reason that there have been quite a few posts over the last couple of months, mainly pics of the latest results from yet another OCA project.

I wanted to try a different style and achieve a loser, more imaginative and 'scruffy' end result and although I am pleased with this picture, I think I could still become much more suggestive and loser in the style. More work needed I think!
This picture is the result of the last project I have to do in pastels and I'm quite sad to be moving away from this medium! Even though they're messy and I struggled a bit with them at the beginning, I've got to know them now and I really like them now! Also I will never forget how cold it was outside whilst I was doing this picture...New Years Day, nought degrees or less... ugh....frost bite was also achieved that day!

And this last picture...well just a bit of fun! All dark and gloomy I know, but I wanted to try and portray a really stormy day....and I think I got it! This is a working sketch of something I would like to try in the future (its only framed as I've run out of fixitive and being in a frame is the safest place for it for now!)