Finished

I finished the custom painting this evening and I'm very happy with it:

It's being packed as we speak to get shipped out to its new home. I have grown a lot more found of this piece than I ever thought I would, I am a bit sad to see it go but it's going to a lovely home so I am happy!

I found it fascinating to see all the strange corners I find inspiration from, on this occasion I am referring to the Emerson quote!

That's all for tonight, very tired and lots of packaging to do :)

Customs Customs Customs and Trades Trades Trades

Well as I'm sure you can guess from the title trades are really popular on Etsy at the moment and I am currently involved in 4 or 5 trades which is great, quite a few of them are custom pieces too, which makes me smile very much!

The one I am going to talk about tonight is the custom piece I am doing for Hardyharhar on Etsy is a custom painting for her daughter's birthday and she gave me free reign all bar it incorporating a crow and a mushroom. At first it seemed challenging (but that's good) and its been so much fun, I've gotten so into this piece.

Here is the progress so far...

You can't see the pencil detail in this photograph but I'm going to leave you wondering until the next progress photos :)