Baby Boom.

2012 seems to be have been the year of the baby boom. Last year it was a year of friends weddings, so I guess I should have been more prepared really. If a baby hasn't already been born, then it soon will be. 

This flush of babies actually started in December '11, somewhere around Christmas day, give or take a day or two. It was one of my friends (one of a twin), the other twin gave birth a couple of months later. They shared the joke about coinciding births. The last friend to announce she was pregnant is still only 12 weeks, so in between I have genuinely lost count, my guesstimate (as I always forget one or two) is that numbers are in the twenties somewhere. All that I can say is that I am pleased that I am not playing Godmother to them all. I think three nephews is perfectly sufficient for now.

The commission piece that never was, I did in draft. It's not perfect and I must admit if I'm just sketching on the sofa I tend to work at a very strange angle, (I do the same when I write), which doesn't help perspective. Anyway I'd had enough of looking at a freaky not quite right sketch, so I decided to add a little colour and tweak it a bit.

My thoughts....... it's not great, but it's good to try something different and as with everything the more you do, the more you learn! Maybe I'll use this as a prelude to a sitting with my nephews....(4, 9 & 15),God help me!