Birthday Card Art

What a month June is for birthdays!  This year I've been painting cards for people I love.

Gouache & Brush Pen

Acrylic & Brush Pen

Solar Plate Etching

One of these birthdays took me to Paris but that's a story for another post.

Sketching Exercises

A while back I was fed up with my tight, fiddly work, so I pinned some very big pieces of paper to an easel and went to work with charcoal or Chinese ink. Putting my shoulder into it felt extremely liberating.