Sunflower for a sunny day

It has taken me the better part of the day, but I have finished my sunflower picture! It was very fiddly work with all the small areas to colour, but at the same time it was very relaxing.

For this one I used a mixture of Derwent watercolours and Derwent inktense pencils. The watercolour had soft enough shades for the blue and pearl, where the inktense provided stong, vibrant colours for the flower.

This photo really does not do the colours of this piece justice, they really pop off the page.

Happily it has received the seal of approval from my love (I had to send her a picture of it before loading it online, I wanted her to be the first person to see it) since this picture was done for her.

Soon I will need to resume "housewife" duties and begin dinner (I am making the same dish I made on the night I proposed to her), but for now I am chilling on the lounge, my itty bitty kitten on my lap, listening to the latest releases from ministry of sound.

It can get quite lonely at home when my love is at work and my little girl isn't here...many times I wish I still had friends to hang out with, to chat to and play board games with. Right now though I am enjoying my own company, I am enjoying not having to talk. It is peaceful. 

It is funny how humans crave companionship, but also crave solitude. We are such complex, contradictory creatures. I am lonely, yet I enjoy being alone. I am tired, yet I do not want to "waste time" by sleeping, I want to go out and be active but I don't want to leave the house. And these contradictions are different for everyone...maybe this is why I prefer animals to humans, they offer no pretence, they are easier to understand!