cupcakes.

As I had an afternoon to spare, I thought I'd try my hand at cake decorating. As I enjoy making cupcakes, using fondant icing to create unique decorations seemed like a jolly good idea, a jolly good idea that proved to be a little trickier then anticipated, but a lot of fun too!

Drawing from real life...

...is quite difficult when your drawing subject is bumble bees. Using my macro setting on my camera, I managed to get close to this little bee who was enjoying the sunshine in my garden.

My welcome distraction.

The very tame Robin we have flying around work, surprised us all with this little cutie. I was happy to take some time out to sneak up on him and take a few snaps.

166 bpm.

After months of planning, our Walcot Chapel exhibition was a great sucess! All 10 of us deserve a pat on the back for the hard work we put in. The private view night was fantastic, the drinks were flowing and so were the compliments about our work, a very big thank you to everyone who came and supported us!

Here's some photographs that were taken of my work in the exhibition. I am pleased I exhibited this piece and now need to motivation to keep it going. At 12ft long it's already quite a long piece, but I aim to get it around 20ft long ready for it to be displayed in the American Museum, Bath, in May!

My first hard ground etching.

Stings like a bee.

Unfortunately, etchings don't get much justice being scanned and posted on a blog, but here's a few of my first attempts.