Aceo of the day - Elephants

Aceo of the day

whimsical elephants

This is another one that I doodled while we werew away on holiday at the caravan, then painted up when I got home. I have been working on a lot more keyrings and bookmarks/magnets over the past few weeks as we were booked up to do a car boot sale. Some are repeats of previous designs, a few are new but it'll be a while before I get around to scanning them.

School starts again next Thursday so there should be lots more time for painting and blogging. :)

Aceo of the day - Sherlock Holmes

Aceo of the day

whimsical houses - Sherlock Holmes

Oh dear - sorry about that huuuge gap in posting, you can definitely tell that the school holidays have descended on us. Anyways, as I find myself awake and having peace and quiet fairly early in the morning for a change, here's one of my latest aceos, drawn up after watching the series Sherlock on dvd :)

New designs - fairground art

New designs

bookmark - fairground heart

magnet - fairground heart

Some more designs based on fairground art.

 Maybe a little busy this time - note to self: less is more lol

More new designs

New designs - Fantasy flowers

bookmark - fantasy flowers

magnet - fantasy flowers

 

More designs for the shop :) 

There is also a keyring to match this set but I haven't gotten around to scanning it yet. I blame the hot weather for making me lazy lol

Fairground art

Fairground art - bookmark/magnet

It's been a while, I know - sorry about that :(  I have been working hard though :)

My items have been accepted at the knitting shop in town and the owner says that as I'm not taking up much table space, instead of charging me £5 a week she'll take 10% commission from any sales.

It's been just over a week now so I think I'll leave it a few more days and then pop in to see how sales are going. In the meantime I've been working on some more bookmarks and magnets ( I've run out of keyrings atm, will have to order some more blanks )

These two were inspired by a trip to a vintage fairground that I went on with my son's class on a school trip as a volunteer. The artwork on all the old rides ( especially the fairground horses ) was lovely :)

New keyring designs :)

Keyrings of the day

keyring - purple house

keyring - blue house

keyring - unicorn

We had a lovely holiday up in sunny wales but it's always nice to be home again :) 

I've done a few more keyrings as now I'm back home I'll be checking out how to go about hiring table space at that shop in town. Hopefully things like keyrings, bookmarks and fridge magnets may sell well to tourists in our little Cornish town - I'll keep my Aceos for e-bay :)

The first two house designs I made just before we left for our holiday and the unicorn I did today.

Image of the day - Indian Fairy

Image of the day

Indian Fairy - 8ins x 6ins - watercolour

This will be my last post for a couple of weeks as we are off on holiday to sunny(?) Wales to see my family tomorrow :)

This picture was developed up from a doodle I made for face practice, and kind of got a bit carried away (as usual). My other half said that she looked like she should be black, but once I finished her I think she looks more Indian than African. Oh well, she's pretty wherever she's from :)

Some more good news on the art front - I saw a knitting shop in town the other day had a sign in the shop window offering table space to rent for anyone who wanted to sell handmade items. I thought maybe that only meant knitted or sewn items but the shop lady told me it means anything at all as long as it's handmade. It will have to wait until we're back from holiday now but I have a good few key-rings, bookmarks and magnets by now so I'll be renting a table for a week or two to see how it goes.