I would love to say that I have spent hours and hours learning how to paint with my new lovely paints (I finally tired of my cheap $10 set of tubes and bought a little compact set of real, lovely paints) but alas, I haven’t spent any time at all. So, here I revert to the old comfortable form of pencil sketching. This one was done long ago (a year or two ago…) on a breezy day on a lawn chair overlooking the beach during vacation. I spied it unfinished in my sketchbook the other day, but I like it how it is. I have absolutely no recollection what magazine or designer this dress is from, only that I was inspired by the shiny silver buttons and thick cream fabric. And the assymetrical front.

Sorry about that little smudge in the middle of her skirt – I’m afraid our home-office printer is a little gummed up…and in the first place, not exactly invented as a high-quality scanner…