Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.

I finally drew the Library of Cats, an idea I have been sketching for some time.
At the moment I've got the drawing and started colouring/painting.  I’m not sure how much more I want/can do.
Do I paint the books? I already decided to keep the shelving white instead of the oak I had first in mind.
The grey cat on one of the top shelves turned out darker than I preferred.

I’m afraid the picture will become too dark if I add the final outlines...
Perhaps I’ll decide on that tomorrow.
 

This afternoon my cousin gave birth to a little baby girl. I'm ecstatic to say I'm now officially godmother of Charlotte *bounces* I'm really overjoyed.

I've made a card for her birth and taken a photo of it.
The text is in Dutch and translates to "The treasure at the end of the rainbow"



And this is the inside, welcoming my godchild:



The colours are not entirely the same (I'm no good at photographing ^^;) but you get the right idea ^_~

For some reason or another I couldn't fall asleep last night :(
therefore I got up and turned the sleepless night into a creative night :D
The images as not up to standard and most need a little tweeking here and there, still work in progress. (and some might not survive the cut, they show it was sleep-deprived nightwork ^_~)



As you can see, I was thinking about Christmas already ^^;;;;;
Anyhow, I slept as a log after this creative outburst and (so far) I don't feel the missing hours of sleep.

Yesterday I stopped working on my 2 designs because I couldn't draw a straight line anymore ^^;
Plus I feared I would spoil the image if I added too much more.
I just took some quick photos and dropped in the sofa with a nice cuppa tea.
...
And immediatly got back up after I had taken an idle look at the photos. I can hardly believe I made that \o/
I'm extremely happy with January. It truly depicts the feeling I have when coming up from the underground in Antwerp.
( January and August )

August is inspired on a similar card I bought a week ago. I've already taken care of the smudge on one of the glasses.
Today I'll get proper scans of all my work... Then I decide whether or not I still need to add something.
(I was first thinking to use a black liner on the building but I'm not so sure anymore.)

It's my mum's 60th birthday next week and I had already bought her a card from the Quire Publishing collection some time ago. But since she's giving a birthday party in her garden I decided to make my own version of the card with a few adaptions.

This is a quick photograph therefore the colours aren't quite right, to give you an idea: it's a white background.
The text on top is "Happy 60th Birthday" in Dutch
and the (very unclear) decorations in the tree are glass jars with either a blue/yellow ribbon or yellow stars on them. It's a decoration I already helped my mum create for the actual party coming sunday.