Life has been pretty boring recently, because I’ve been spending all my time trying to produce a huge number of Christmas cards for the people who ordered them at our recent NEOS exhibition. I would always prefer to digitise rather than stitch things out, and when it comes to stitching out a HUGE number of identical designs, my patience runs out
Oh well, I shouldn’t complain, because at least my embroidery machine is back from being repaired and it’s nice to be able to use it again
But I don’t have much to post here, because all the Christmas card designs are old: you’ve already seen them in past posts and I haven’t had time to produce new ones. So here are two more (non-Christmas) pieces that I exhibited at the NEOS show.
This one is yet another tribute to the Celtic school of art that is one of my favourite decorative styles. The intricate curls that are so typical of Celtic design seemed perfectly suited to the depiction of a tree with interlaced branches and roots
The Celtic oak
And here I retreat to my favourite theme of birds. We have huge flocks of pigeons around here, and they’ve been spending the autumn scrabbling for food in the harvested fields. So I drew a flock just rising from the ground with the flurry of wings that always accompanies them
A flock of autumn pigeons
I will probably be late with the next freebie (again) because we’re going to spend spend some time in Glasgow - I’m being taken for a long trip there to visit the wonderful museums in the city. But I’ll be back eventually with a couple of more freebies