It's funny how a picture can look really wrong, until the final cropping is done. Bearing in mind that I will be making these artworks up into cards, I added a big extra wodge for the scans - which got cut off when the time came to frame up. When the magic circle mount was added and it made compositional sense.
'Sea Horse with Button Moon'As I was getting near deadline, I revisited a favourite theme - 'We Three Kings' - rooster style. This is the first version from 2004 -
The second version from 2006 -
And the third version for the Green Gallery, 2008 -
Rounding off the batch of toy sculptures - Sherbettina -
- and the 'blob' who turned into Bonbon the rabbit -
Last Friday was D-Day; most of it spent scanning all artworks for my records and future usage, as well as taking a thousand photos of the animals. Before I packed the paintings up, I couldn't resist seeing how they all looked together...
Then I emptied my toy shelf -
(all except poor Minxie, who is on her own again)- to see how it all worked as a package. And was rather pleased. After years of hard work, I finally feel as if I have created my own identity. I am a toy artist. Which is where I always wanted to be.
Yes, there are only five toys here - I was a little late with the final one, and poor Tommy was hastily needled over the weekend.
Hey! What about me???
With some relief I sent the toys off, on Monday last. And celebrated my new status of No Deadlines by getting the cottage straight - girl's got to relax somehow! And while I would love to put my feet up and do a bit of reading, I find myself back to full steam, planning new lines of needle felt bits and bobs and finally indulging in a little dream I had a loooooong time ago...
