… and what has the mouse to do with springtime?

Not a lot¹. It just happened to be drawn in the spring, as part of a couple of postcard designs to go to Bricket Wood Art Club²).

Anyway, more seasonal pastel studies are below, with only minor photoshopping³, for your delectation and delight – or at least a distraction until I get organised enough to do a proper post⁴.

Alas, the glorious candyfloss blossoms are now mostly over – but at least I drew some of them this year…

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Unless you count the tendency of rats to frequent our garden in pursuit of food put out for the young birds.

2
…which has recently suffered a very sad loss. I should probably not go into details here, but will ask whether a general announcement should go up on the website at some point.

3
Memo to self – download Gimp from Gimp.org. I like trusty Paint.net, but I could do with more functionality (and better auto-levelling algorithms >_<).

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Best estimate: around midsummer at the current rate!