A Sketchy Sort of Week ....

Gotta love balls

Chocolate balls that is

Lindor balls are amazing little packets of deliciousness

but have to say they are a pain to paint

or maybe it was the fact that I was eating them as quick as I painted them

and the resulting sugar haze meant I had a less than steady hand

but whatever the case these babies gave me all sorts of hassles

and ended up being a bit sketchy and messy

but it has been a sketchy and slightly messy sort of week

and the subject does fit in nicely with the whole Valentines theme

over at the Artist's Play Room

I have the new computer up and running a treat

largely helped by tech support in the form of tea and chocolate

and it was a good, though extremely time consuming task

to clean up the documents and photos from my old lap top before I moved things over

turns out I am quite the pack rat when it comes to keeping rubbish on my hard drive

but now I have this lovely streamlined machine which will give me more room to work

not to mention I can now find photos, scans and documents

without the habitual scroll down, shake head, scroll back up, have a bit of a cuss dance

that usually accompanied any sort of retrieval

the down side of all this is that I had little time to paint

and pretty much all I have to show for the week is the balls

and this sketch of the last bloom on one of  my agapanthyus

this bloom hung on through the storm of a few weeks ago

which is quite the example of resilience

but this week it finally gave up its last few blooms

so I quickly grabbed the sketchbook and painted it in

which means the last two pages have both been based on blooms in my garden

which is kind of a nice thing

Most importantly though, I see a free and clear week ahead of me next week

which means lots of studio time

which is almost as good as chocolate

can't wait to get back to some paint 

Happy Paint Party Friday all...xx

PS This amazing photo taken by the lovely Lori Moon

arrived to add to my wall in the studio

plus she sent me some Tombow markers to try... how cool is that... thanks Lori...xx

There has only been one post this week due to the computer change over

but here is the link in case you missed it...

A Warning Would Have Been Nice ...