Chocolate, Play and Life Drawing

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Hooray! My chocolate bar arrived from April. Thankyou April, there's not much left of it as I write this as a have quite a penchant for the stuff, so it's a good thing I took this photo as soon as it arrived otherwise you wouldn't be able to see how enormous it is! April has a blog called Ugly Rabbit and I was the lucky winner of her giveaway!

Talking of giveaways, I'm having my own this week and if you go to my last post and leave a comment you too can be a winner.I've been having fun painting trees and owls and cats.

And this morning a session of life drawing. This one was done using watercolour pencils.


This one, graphite pencil.

This one pen and ink. This pose reminds me of the Little Mermaid. Maybe I'll do a painting from it one day, afterall, I love pictures of mermaids!

Comments

Victoria Stitch said…
i love the rainbow trees!
5 March 2010 at 13:43
April Jarocka said…
You're very welcome Jessie!Glad it arrived in time, I was hoping it would arrive today. Enjoy!
5 March 2010 at 15:52
Jess said…
Thanks Harriet :o)

I did! Thanks again April :o)
5 March 2010 at 16:09
Perpetual Chocoholic said…
Stunningly beautiful life drawings. Especially the water coloured pencil one!
5 March 2010 at 18:32
Nicola said…
Wow your life drawings are beautiful I would love to see you do a painting from them! Those trees are cute too lovely and bright and colourful! That chocolate bar wouldn't last 5 minutes with me ;0)
5 March 2010 at 22:24
Marie K. said…
Lucky of you for the chocolate.
Your trees are very nice, with their bright colours.
I've some preference for the orange-yellow one with blue owls.
Nice painting Jessie.
6 March 2010 at 19:10
Jo Potter said…
Fun, bright images, Jessie and as always very beautiful life drawings. The model looks an elegant lady.
Enjoy the chocolate. Congrats on winning it!:)
Best wishes,
Jo.
8 March 2010 at 12:25
Julia Guthrie said…
That last one would indeed make a fabulous little mermaid!! :)
I used to enjoy life drawing at college. It was a nice opportunity to draw something you wouldn't normally do. And I used to get such a sense of satisfaction sometimes in getting beautiful shapes with arms or hands or something.
8 March 2010 at 15:07
Anonymous said…
love the owls and pussycats xxx
8 March 2010 at 20:14
Jess said…
Thankyou! :o)xx
12 March 2010 at 16:05
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