Easy Like Sunday Morning

It’s feeling very January here.

Also I fell down the stairs this week (I’m fine, just a little bruised and embarrassed) so all in all, very January.

It’s a short one today because there’s just not much going on - again, January.

I’m continuing to build up pieces to strengthen my children’s illustration portfolio and had a burst of inspiration this week! I created this piece based on a childhood memory of mine - a wall I used to climb to let the cows in the field lick my wellies!

I’m feeling really happy with this one; I feel like it really represents me as an artist and my current style. I tried to embrace just drawing how I wanted (basically, I find rendering tedious so I just chose not to do it anymore) and it felt really freeing and almost (almost) captured the feeling of drawing as a kid for fun again.

Grey rainy days call for pastry endorphins and warming stews!

I tried out this Somerset Chicken recipe this week and it was delicious! I also made a few standard mid-week repeat family meals that are pretty reliable, if you’re after that kind of thing!

• This Green Bean Mac ‘n’ Cheese always goes down well.

• This Parsnip Soup is super easy, cheap and tastes way better than it should with so few ingredients!

• I’ve found some time to play on my shiny new Switch 2 this week and really enjoying Pokemon Legends Z-A as well as the Animal Crossing update.

• We also started playing Grounded with some friends and it’s fun! I’m managing without turning arachnophobia mode on so far but the big spiders are definitely… unwelcome.

Short and sweet today! I hope you have a great Sunday!