A Fox on The Plate

This weekend I was at Wigtown book festival. It’s a long way from Worcester where I live, but it was worth the journey. Beautiful scenery through the window of the train and Wigtown is a lovely little town packed with friendly people.

The festival itself is really well organised and there’s  so much to see. Highly recommended! I had a good time and … lobster for lunch, so thank you Wigtown for having me.

Otherwise I was working on my latest book. Here is the second page of the book. I usually paint each picture at least twice, so I can choose the best one for the book. Painting the picture more than once helps me  relax. I don’t now which one will end up in the book, so I’m not too precious about any of them when I’m working.

Here is the other one. I think I know which one will make it to the book.

Yes, It’s mainly penguins at the moment. I’m also painting the snowy backgrounds and frozen sea. It’s not as easy as it seems I realise.

This photo would describe my recent dreams pretty well.

It is kind of a little nightmare sometimes.

One more thing I wonted to mention. Both my daughters watch”A Great British Bake Off” and it inspires them a big way. Tereza decorated her cake for her friends in the style of Vincent van Gogh. I think Vincent would be proud.

Cecilia, my younger daughter made a delicious cake for our friend who came for lunch today. The cake was so delicious, that I was tempted to lick the plate, but since it would be a rude thing to do, I just drew with my folk on the plate. The result was a rather pretty fox I thought.

Oh yes and I’m at Henley Literay Festival on Friday and Cheltenham Literary festival on Sunday morning – looking forward to them.