First portrait of the year!!

A finished portrait. My first in quite some time but I'm pretty pleased with it! Lets hope you see more on the horizon!

A foray into portraiture.

Meet William. My 3 month old second cousin. I haven't attempted a portrait for quite some time and am feeling a bit rusty. However, I'm pretty pleased with the outcome so far. Watch this space for the finished Article!

I'm a winner!!

Woman's Weekly is now my favourite magazine as I join legions of ladies indulging in their online competitions. I've never bought it in my life (and that's not a fabrication of the truth, believe it or not!) but I entered a competition at some point and discovered a Royal Mail special delivery note in the house this week. I went to the post office to collect my mystery letter today and to my surprise had won £100 worth of vouchers to spend at Hobbycraft. The perfect prize for little old me! I predict a spending spree!! Yipee!! X

A wondrous website

Hip hip hooray!

It's new, it's fancy, it's, well, about time I finally got my own website! Official domain name and everything! I'd like to think it's a bit more professional than any of my previous attempts to achieve internet/illustration fame and fortune.  Hopefully I can now display my illustrated 'goods' in a more coherent way, and bring my work to a wider audience.  For a sneak peek, click on the link below:

www.gemmavalentine.net/

A little something I've been working on...:o)

Valentine's day is a silly celebration, but the need for Jammie Dodgers certainly is not! As your one and only Valentine, I hereby give you a stupendous illustration in honour of what I propose to be National Jammie Dodger day!!

So I decided to peruse the bookshelf and all the recipe books in the house, and what did I come across? A 'hand-knitted' recipe book I produced some illustrations for a couple of years ago.  Since I'd like to update this here blog a little more often, I thought the illustrations were worth a post.