A While Ago I Wanted To Do A Comparison Of Some Of The School Uniforms My Different Characters Wear,

A while ago I wanted to do a comparison of some of the school uniforms my different characters wear, I can’t quite remember why. Nettle goes to a dreadful comprehensive school not unlike the one I went to, and wears a pretty casual uniform not unlike the one I wore. It might be the only time she ever wears trousers. (At my school only about 3 girls opted for a skirt.) Jessie goes to a slightly more upmarket school but I’m not sure any schools in the UK actually have a uniform like that, in the sense of one without a blazer but with an unusual skirt colour. Possibly there’s a blazer that Jessie prefers not to wear. I think the boys wear grey trousers rather than red. Patience lives in the present day and so has a very fancy-looking uniform, because for some reason UK schools all want fancy uniforms again? I very rarely see secondary school children in jumpers anymore, and more girls seem to opt for skirts again.

Now that the weather is colder, how about some Winter weather spirits? The originals of these were my Christmas/Holiday cards for family and friends last year, and I’ve printed six of them to make a little set. The cards are blank inside and come with blue colour-splash envelopes to match the Winter theme and six snowflake stickers for sealing or decoration. If you’d like to send tiny Winter spirits to your pals this year, they are now up in my shop! https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/635966163/winter-weather-greeting-cards-set-of-6

Have some crows! The one on the left was part of a birthday card, the one on the right was... well I traced the left hand one and that was what it wanted to be I suppose. It’s watching us all.

In years when he grows catkins under his ear frills, Sweetpea can sometimes end up with acorns there too! They get pretty uncomfortable at full size, but he’s too proud of them to care. He’ll spend the whole of Autumn showing them off to anyone who will look and admiring them in puddles, then plant them out with great care.

I don’t often have nightmares (in the sense of dreams that have a real feeling of terror rather than just horror imagery) but I do often see monsters in my dreams. Lately I’ve been doing watercolour sketches of some of the ones I remember. In related news, I think I’ve finally got the hang of wet-on-wet watercolour painting. (The pictures have captions if you like flavour text.)

Inktober 2018 : Day 2 - Brush pen and ink wash (in a waterbrush pen) Alexis is a type of angel made to interact with humans, so even his unnatural features look soft and friendly. He likes soft, fluffy clothes.