I have also started the basic colours for the face. Her face is looking a bit odd at the moment, but will become the proper delicate shape. I hope!. Next it will be just a matter of gradually working down the picture. A lot of detail in this picture!! Still I always like a challenge.
No gourd story this week but a little remembering how lucky and privileged I have been, living in Africa and other countries I have visited. So many people have never been outside of their home town, never to really see another side to life and the world around.
I was taking out a splinter the other day from my foot, and thought back to my childhood.
As many of you know I was lucky enough to be brought up in Africa, where my father was working for the British goverment We had a nanny or 'ayah' Julianna. She would put her round pebble like specs on the end of her nose and blow gently on the area where she was taking out a thorn, splinter or 'jigger' which was an insect that burrowed into the skin, usually by a toe and laid it's microscopic eggs there to hatch. These caused a lot of pain and had to be dug out whilst not breaking the sac with the eggs in it. Big trouble if you did, and one very septic toe.
Julianna was so patient, she would blow and croon to you while digging out with a needle.I can see her old wrinkled face and sparse grey hair growing in tufty tight curls.She lived with us through my childhood and most of my sister's. Bless you my old 'ayah'.
Little me with Julianna, and Mitzi our dachshund.
See you next week, take care, and will dig out a few more memories from the brain file!!
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