Back to my Roots

As mentioned in previous posts I am influenced (like all artists) by the things around me and the things I am interested in. For just over two years of the previous five I have been pregnant and for four of them I have been breastfeeding.

This latest piece from the easel of Ally is my depiction of those fantastic nine months, not forgetting when baby is skinside.

The original sketch of this is in twelve parts, the nine months of pregnancy and then three slides showing breastfeeing a newborn, a toddler and a preschooler.

I have had some really postive responses to my colourful pieces so thought I'd brighten up these dull days, bring on the sunshine!

This is still on the easel and needs quite a bit more time put into it. I'll be working on it

over the next week and will hopefully have a finished piece to show you later on in the week.

I'd like to remind you all about the competition to win a custom canvas. You can find the competition here on the Natural Mamas forum

When this one ends at the end of the month, I will be running a monthly prize giveaway here on my blog.

Burning the Candle at both ends.

I'm usually really good at setting myself limits for working in the eveing, but the last few nights have seen my creative juices flow and I have only been getting a few hours sleep each night. I'm loving my work, but hating being tired. I still have hundreds of ideas going round in my head and am making the most of this as I know how easy it is to fall into a rut.

I have now listed two canvas pieces in my Etsy shop and aim to put a new piece on each day.

I am just trying to find where the children have hidden my camera and will take picture of the latest work in progress.

So here it is. 'The Breast' I really enjoyed this piece, it's kinda a self portrait, well based on my own mammories anyway. It's part of 2 sets, one in true pop art style, 4 canvasses of the same picture but different, bold colours and the other is a set of three, with 2 smaller ones at the top for the breasts and one wider one underneath which is a pregnant, both stunning and truly beautiful to look at. Want art that people will be talking about for a long time to come?? come to my shop!!
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A Blank Canvas

I decided to take a break from doing stuff for the shop last night and thought i'd get a canvas and the acrylics out. This is by no means finished, there's a lot more still to do to it, but this is the basis of one of my favourite canvasses. I have my original of this on the wall in the front room and love looking at it.

The pregnant form, is one of my most loved shapes, it's just so curvy, so beautiful, so well....womanly. My original inspiration for this, came from a photograph that my husband took of me whilst pregnant with my second son. The lighting was compeltely rubbish on the photo and you could only just make out the shape. It was slightly different to this in that my leg raised, but it was inspiration and i'm sure I have the picture on the computer somewhere!!

Like I said this one isn't finished, but I already have the next one planned out. I've done it on watercolour, but am not that happy with it, so i will transferring it onto canvas over the next few days - really hoping the children sleep this afternoon so I can crack on with shop stuff, it's not long till it opens now.......