Greetings!

This is one of a series cards that I'm working on for my 

portfolio and an upcoming show. I really like designing cards as 

I can never find exactly the one I want in the shops and this is

a satisfying way of rectifying that, I hope people have the same taste as me, I'm worried it's all gone a bit saccharine and twee but to be honest, sometimes that's what I want! teehee x Enjoy!

Mouse Card 1.

Lickety Split!

I started on a new picture today,  well it consisted of sketching out a few ideas and collecting reference from the internet, I decided I wanted to illustrate the age old favourite 'The Owl and the Pussy Cat' (Edward Lear is one of my fave authors and one of my most treasured possessions is a copy of his 'Book of Nonsense', I researched images by illustrators and felt inspired to do my own interpretation, that and the fact that I'm desperate to draw an owl, and the sea and a cute kitty!


I was just doing some super quick scribbles, when I actually quite liked one of them, I think it was because I didn't feel ready to start labouring away on the intensely detailed version, so I decided to do a quick colour of the scribble... anywho, here tis;

...and the sketch book page it came from