Serving Up Some Time...

I have been sucked into that weird time vortex that only exists during the holiday season

 I thought I had enough time to get everything done but somehow

 time has been disappearing at an alarming rate

and the evil pixie list fairies have been busy filling my notebook

with scary, long pages of things to be done every time I turn my back

So I did what all creatives do when faced with overwhelming real life

I did some drawing

and not some light sketching

but a good old get in and do mad tonal work with a pen drawing

which calms my brain no end

and has the added bonus of being that rarest of rare things lately

a drawing which is now actually finished

nothing like a sense of achievement when everything else around you is falling apart

maybe not falling apart so much as descending into a truly epic shambles

which I am hoping like mad will be seen as charming by all and sundry

during the holidays as they open their weird and wonderful gifts

which at this stage could be old bananas and a couple of tins of chickpeas

if I don't get my butt into gear

But let's not focus on those possibilities

these are my favourite salad servers and I love how they turned out

there is something so meditative about the soft scratching of ballpoint on paper

maybe it is a leftover from all those years of doodling

and decorating every spare inch of paper during class while at school

which was a long time ago I know but it has that same calming effect

of course when I stopped drawing

I saw the list pixies had been evil little bastards and added yet more to be done

so I retreated to another sketchbook and started work on another drawing

which I began a while ago... quite a while I think

But how could I not enjoy the irony of drawing watches while time disappears

although I must say that I do need to start to deal with the whole holiday season

with something approaching organisation soon

or I will find myself bolting around the mall at 10 pm on Christmas Eve 

with all the other hopelessly disorganised sods

and I am trying to block out the whole needing to feed people palaver

that is likely to drive me to mainlining chocolate 

and hiding in the bottom of the walk-in wardrobe with the mutt

I really do need to get moving on some list ticking off

so I will leave you with my latest illustration for the December GoodnessMe Box

not just because I had a great time illustrating it as always

but also because how can I not have an injection of colour in a post

happy painting all...xx