Have you ever tasted the ice-cream from the City of the Soap Bubbles? The taste is so multicolored and sweet as its citizens clothes, décor of their homes, buildings and their music...
Ivy is a popular plant in the festive season. She was also a popular girl with the boys at my mother’s school. My mum never quite explained why. Apparently Ivy owned the only bike in the village or something.
In Shropshire, a piece of ivy (the plant) was fed to animals on Christmas Day to keep the evil spirits away for the coming year. Strange because ivy, especially the leaves, is poisonous to most animals. This either tells you how connected Christmas is with pagan rituals or reminds you to swerve round Ludlow.
Always a keen gardener, my mother also warned me that although it looks good, Common Ivy can be really bad for your house. Once the tendrils get into the fabric, it can really break up a home. I think my mum was talking about the plant there. Though she starting spitting and viciously attacked a bush with some shears while explaining that.
All of which tells us that although ivy might look good, it should be treated with caution. I would ask my dad about it, but he ran off with another woman when I was very young. You’ve probably guessed her name by now. But Holly from the laundrette is a discussion for another day.
The name of this painting is a clever pun if you enjoy Roman numerals. And who doesn’t? The original is for sale on the website if you want something evergreen clinging to your bedroom wall.
An observational plein air study, done in Platinum Preppy (can’t remember the size of the nib 🤦🏻).
There’s some clearer close ups on Instagram (I’m still getting used to Tumblr- I’m 21 but sometimes I feel like a boomer trying to fathom this website out 😭).
Anyways, how is everybody doing? I recently had some really lovely feedback on some work that I posted on here after weeks of not getting any notifications so to those of who who were kind enough to react with my posts, thank you so much- it really means the world ❤️
I also worked out how to reblog yesterday so that’s an achievement 😂
Tiktok, in fact all social media has become an addiction. We worship and pray for ‘likes’ and ‘followers’. It’s a popularity contest for fake adoration, glorifying ourselves based on things that don’t matter.
♥ Sleepy Cat on lokta paper ♥ ~ Hand Printed Relief print.
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♥ Not every print is perfect! The paper is around 30 x 21cm (A4) ♥
Plain natural lokta paper is around 100 to 110 gsm, thicker than the Mulberry paper.
These designs are carved and hand-printed by myself, therefore each print will have slight differences between them. The ink is oil based for a more opaque and high quality print.