Thérèse Neelands

Inspiration.

Happy Anniversary card work in progress, watercolour, ink, acrylic ink on paper

There’s a story to this card.

One day I was walking home from the park with Maggie and I came across a couple of snail shells which had been left too high and dry after the rain. I took them home with me, and used them as reference for the two snails above.

Days went by, and Andrew and I started noticing a vomit inducing odour hanging around the hallway. We blamed it on Maggie, who we’ve been house-training, but couldn’t find any evidence.

Days later, the smell got so bad, it seemed to pervade the whole house. Yesterday, I finally realized as I was drawing in my studio, that the foul smell was coming right from in-between my fingers – the snail shell. I sniffed it.

I threw them out the window, incensed the whole house and began my drawing all over again.

The shells above were collected from the cottage, are clean and stink free. They were my colour inspiration for this card.

Happy Anniversary card work in progress, watercolour, ink, acrylic ink on paper

(the card is now finished and needs to be scanned).

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