Wales

I just got back from being in Wales for two weeks.  Henry and I actually cycled down there.  We had to take two trains and cycle across London from Kings Cross to Paddington.  I've never cycled in London before that.  It got a little bit hairy in parts but I survived!

Wales was so beautiful.  We saw sheep and lots and lots of cows.  We did surfing, canoeing (scary), sailing, cliff walking, kite flying, rock rool dabbling and lots and lots of chocolate eating! My favourite thing we did was go on a boat trip round an island to see the puffins.  I'm not too bothered about puffins but I love seals! And we saw plenty of those. I also love boat trips.  After we did that we had a picnic on the headland and it was seriously one of the nicest, most picturesque places I have ever had the fortune to eat a picnic!

My dog was in heaven!  He's already tried to run away twice since we got back home.  Don't think he's too happy about being back.  Will have to give him lots of walks to compensate!

As you can probably tell, absolutely no drawing got done whatsoever these past two weeks but I did write over 4000 words of my new book.  So I wasn't completely lazy.

Have a wonderful weekend!

X

Chocolate Bats and Furry Dolphins

 I love drawing bats, I love their wings and their little furry faces. And I wish I had a bat costume like this one^  Or a unicorn costume like the one my little cousin has with wings and a horn. And a pet bat and bat wallpaper and bat patterned clothes and some bat hairclips. 

Actually in real real life I don't think they are quite this adorable but in my head they are.

Also I want to show off about his cake I made for my friend at the weekend.  She loves dolphins and so I thought what could be better than chocolate dolphins dipping and diving into a chocolate pool?  I made the dolphins by making dolphin shaped biscuits using a template I drew and then covering them in chocolate with silver balls for their eyes. She loved it.

Reach for the Stars!

I love Siamese cats and I wish I had one.  I love the way they look so elegant with their little creamy bodies which look like their ears and tail and paws have been dipped in chocolate.  Miaow~!

p.s *This illustration might look a bit confusing at the moment with the newspaper cut out star with random writing on it, but it's unfinished right now and all will be explained soon!*

Rainbow Kitchen

This is one of the double page spreads (click to enlarge) for my book that I wrote and am in the process of illustrating.  All the research and drawing of cakes I did last term has most certainly come in useful for this. Though after this project I don't want to look at or draw another cake for at least a year! I've already given up eating them. You can have too much of a good thing!

can you spot: the castle cake, the the flamingo cupcakes, the squares of chocolate, the gingerbread man cutter?

 It's so weird to be coming to the end of being at uni.  Three years has gone so fast!  It feels funny to think that there's nothing to go back to after summer.  I still don't really know what I'm going to do next year.  I want to run away and live on the beach and live off the money from my paintings. Haha.

Belated Happy Easter

This was supposed to be my Happy Easter post but it's a bit belated as you can see!  Anyway I hope everyone had a wonderful day and ate too many chocolate eggs! Wouldn't it be amazing if chicks came in all the pastel shades of the rainbow?  I'd have a baby pink one or a pale lilac one.  And they would lay rainbow eggs too.

Merry Christmas!

We went to Daves today and did our secret santa which was fun. I got Erin a bag to take out clubbing so she doesn't lose everything like usual. Erin got Sian a wind chime thing and some bath stuff, Sian got Bruno a chocolate puzzle, Bruno got Dave a Star Trek bottle opener, Dave got Ben a mug with 'Jesus' written on it and Ben got me a pink box thing with drawers in it and fairies on it and some GLITTER HAIRSPRAY!!! :D

Daves room was COVERED in fairylights. Very festive. We listened to Christmas music and played a game where you have to act out a film and your team has to guess which film it is and get as many as you can in one minute or something. Brokeback mountain kept coming up. lol.

I watched the snowman twice today. I love it and I love Raymond Brigg's original illustrations. It inspired me to do some drawing but i will scan them in tomorrow or boxing day or something. I drew a candycane person.

Some really nice woman gave me her parking ticket today when she was done with it becasue it still had an hour left on it! How nice was that!

Anyway... MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!