I've been keeping busy with creating new images for the art agency, although I am waiting to get feedback on the direction the agency thinks will be best for sales. It's still all very new and exciting.
Most of the work I'm doing now starts off as a line drawing on plain old paper...
which I then scan and complete with colour digitally. I like how I can create a pattern to fill an area of the drawing and how I can change things so easily.
I'm enjoying the challenge of learning new digital techniques, but I think there may come a point where I feel the need to get my paints out and just get messy! At the moment, my personalised gifts fulfil that need to a degree - but there are so many ideas buzzing around in my head and messy paint techniques are at the heart of many of them!
Speaking of getting messy, that's exactly what Guide Dog puppy Quentin did this week. Alongside all the training, people often forget that Guide Dog puppies are just like all other puppies and they still need to play. He had lots of fun with my daughters' two dogs this week at Carr Mill Dam. The water is irresistible to Molly and Max...
and it didn't take Quentin long to join them! I only have one photo of him actually in the water, and he's obscured by greenery
but he did thoroughly enjoy himself!
It was a lot of fun, but a great opportunity to practise his recall too - distractions like playing with other dogs make it harder to call him back but he did pretty well. He does keep checking where I am when he's off lead, which I'm sure is a good sign.
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