more girls with unusual pets

I showed you one of the prints from a series that I did called 'Girls with Unusual Pets' a little while ago, in this post here and while the series grows ever longer and the pets ever more unusual two of the pictures have found a home until the end of December at the RWA's 160th Open Exhibition  in Bristol, so if you are in the area and fancy seeing them in real life that's the place to go.

girls with unusual pets...

I like the idea if having an unusual pet.  Something to make the neighbours talk...
A small armadillo, a pelican, a tank full of leeches??

In my sketchbook I have been drawing girls with pets for quite a while and finally got round to carving three of them in lino last month.  Here is number one.  This lass has a very large cat...

There is a certain amount of silliness in setting myself the task of turning line drawings into lino prints and maybe a screen print would be the way to go, but as it is has mostly been raining this year I didn't have much else to do in May.

Next post I will probably show you some logs in the sunshine as I have now turned to sorting out the swamp/jungle/chaos of my outside habitat...