My Creative Space: a Valentine's Day giveaway

Happy Valentine's Day!  I'm having a bit of a giveaway today, but first up, some blankets.  I've been working on some paintings of old blanket labels and finished this Onehunga Woollen Mills one this morning.  Then in a nice bit of synchronicity I found another Onehunga Woollen Mills blanket at the op shop this afternoon.  For the princely, or should I say princessly sum of $7! It is very gaudy in real life, with almost fluro pink stripes, but it looks much more tasteful in photos!  I think this "Princess" label will be one of my next paintings. 

And now for the giveaway!  I was hoping to have some Valentine's Day cards printed from this fox picture I drew, but I haven't had time to print them.  This gocco print is probably the most romantic thing I have in stock, what with an anatomical heart and a sacred heart dripping blood!  So if you would like to win a copy of this print, just leave me a comment telling me what you're up to for Valentine's Day.  I'll draw a winner from a hat next Wednesday night, and I'm happy to post it anywhere in the world.  

 Oh and what am I up to for Valentine's Day?  I'm hanging out at home with my cat.  That's cool, she's pretty cute!

 Joining in with "My Creative Space" over here today.

Happy Thursday to you!

My Creative Space: My foxy valentine

 

I've been playing around some more with my fox heart drawing.  I've painted the foxes with watercolour, put it on a background and I'm experimenting with some hand-drawn text, typed text and different messages.  I should really hurry up and get it printed! 

 

  I'm thinking about turning the foxes into a fabric design too...I've got Heather Ross Prints out from the library and it has a great looking tutorial for turning drawings into fabric designs in Photoshop.  Some op shop finds today have got me itching to do some sewing too!

How about you, what have you been making?

Joining in with My Creative Space today over here. 

Happy Thursday!

Foxy

The other day I asked Mr. Millicent Crow what the most romantic thing you could have on a Valentine's Day card would be.  Without hesitating he replied "Two foxes facing each other with their tails making a heart."  So because that's the most romantic thing you could have on a Valentine's Day card that's what I've decided to make into Valentine's Day cards.  I think I'm going to paint the foxes with watercolour but here's where it's up to now:

In ink

 

and in pencil

Romantic suggestions for messages to put inside the heart welcome.  At the moment I'm thinking of "Happy Valentine's Day...you fox!"

Flowers and murals

Some colourful sights on Valentine's day:

I bought Mr. Millicent Crow some giant dahlias but unfortunately they didn't survive the walk home. Here's a great comic about Valentine's gift anxiety.
I liked this cheeky little pigeon sneaking into this mural!

Lanterns and valentines

It's the lantern festival in Albert Park this weekend, seeing in the year of the rabbit. One of my favourite things about the lantern festival is when it's all being set up and mysterious creatures appear in the park. Like these ones:
It's quite magical having lanterns everywhere. This week I've been having fun taking photos of them during the daytime; it's kind of hard to get good photos of them when they're lit up at night...
Oh and it was Valentine's Day. Mr Millicent Crow made a heart-shaped pizza and we caught the train to Judge's Bay and ate it. Nice.