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Another week, another shortlist for my fiction. Back to the Secret Attic website for their weekly flash fiction prize. For week 42 I entered a piece called ‘Room for Four’ and was shortlisted! It’s a 300 maximum word challenge. This time I scraped through with 294 words using the phrase “all of it?” somewhere withinContinue reading “Another shortlisting! Disbelief much?”

Bored of drawing strawberries? Looking for something new? Why not try strawberries and cream? 😆🍓 Yep, as you can see, not only did I draw a new strawberry, I added a splash of cream to the image too. I know it’s totally out of place for September, but I loved the last strawberry I drewContinue reading “The upgraded strawberry”

I’ve spent the last month venturing in to new ideas for my digital art, but I haven’t forgotten my roots – fruit. Problem is I was getting bored of strawberries 🍓😆. So I had a look online for some new fruit splash inspiration. I came across a shiny image of a beautiful blackberry 🍇 surroundedContinue reading “And I’m back to fruit…”

I am absolutely thrilled to confirm that one of my flash fiction entries was selected by the popular short and flash fiction competition website secret attic. The piece in question, a flash fiction of up to 300 words called ‘Buddies’, was created using a sentence the site asks you pick to use exactly as it’sContinue reading “More great news – selected entry for the Secret Attic Weekly Write competition”

When you’re stuck in a creative rut, you will use a million ways to try and find an idea. I found myself unable to draw recently and couldn’t bring myself to draw more flowers or fruit (don’t worry I’ll do more soon!). I took to the internet, as you do, and searched random things. EverythingContinue reading “The fish”

I’m absolutely thrilled to finally have some of my written work shortlisted in a national competition. Ice Cream Dream was my original flash fiction piece of 101 words written for a monthly competition put on by the Tortive Theatre in the UK. Each month there is a theme to follow. The theme for July wasContinue reading “Yay! – Shortlisted for Tortive Theatre Competition”

Continuing my theme of fruit, my partner suggested I try something a bit different, so I tried this coconut image. I really struggled with the water, which is something I’m going to have to work on. However, the coconut itself, the shell and hair, I was really pleased with. It took a while to getContinue reading “Coconuts for the summer”

I gave myself a new challenge to draw something light again. After my previous work – the splash – I wanted to continue using a bright colour palette and keep trying to draw new things. So this time I tried a strawberry. A big juicy, shiny strawberry. The detail of all the pips was soContinue reading “More light work – strawberry!”

Trying to get out of my dark creative rut gave me a world of opportunity to try and draw something completely out of my comfort zone. This is my first time trying water on its own. I love some of the stock images of splashes and tried to use what I could find on theContinue reading “Drawing bright”

I’ve kept my drawing on the dark side lately and have decided to try some grayscale drawing as a new style and skill. This flower took many hours of shading and line work for all the individual droplets (I think I went a bit overboard, but hey!) but I’m happy with the results, especially whenContinue reading “Still dark but a new challenge”