Pour some sugar on me

So, I have been a little bit absent and lazy lately. It's okay, it comes in phases. Sometimes, you just want to draw for hours every day until your hands bleed. Sometimes, you just want to go to the late night Batman previews like a huge geek, eat too much melted cheese and assorted crap, drink hot chocolate and write things on sugar packets, scavenge Tesco for jam donuts, contemplate how much plastic surgery Megan Fox has had and spend time with people that you like. And lately it's been the latter. (Incidently - The Dark Knight does not need my endorsement but it's still unbelievably incredible, I came out of the cinema and all could do was grin and swear approvingly, and seeing it in the previews was great; hot chocolate with marshmallows is lovely because it's still raining and un-sunny and the marshmallows turn to goo; and Megan Fox has had quite a lot of work done and normally I get all puritanical about that but I actually think she did a good job, go figure)

Anyway. So while I haven't done any new work, today I finished some old work.


"Hansine and Greta"
watercolours, pencil and ink on flat 10"x12" canvas panel

"Once upon a time, there were two young girls – twins – named Hansine and Greta. They were the daughters of a poor woodcutter and his wife, and though the woodcutter and his wife loved their daughters very much, the family was on the verge of starvation. Lacking in money and desperate for food, the poor parents planned to lead their daughters into the woods and lose them there, to fend for themselves. But the young girls learned of the plan, and Greta left a trail of small white pebbles through the copse, and slowly through the night they returned home. Again they were led into the woods, but this time the girls had no little white pebbles, only bread; and though they left a line of breadcrumbs it was eaten by the birds and the animals, and Hansine and Greta were lost to the thicket.

But then they found a house made of gingerbread and sweets..."





P.S. Speaking of which, we are noticing a distinct lack of jam donuts in Tesco, hence the scavenging. So whoever you are, you donut-eating fiend, try and leave two for us (by us I mean my jam-donut-eating companion and me) because the Centra ones just don't cut it really. Much thanks.