This weeks drawing......Caravan love

Hello lovelies,
As I'm sure you will have noticed there is a lot of caravan love out there in blogland.  Lucy's caravan posts always make me nostalgic for childhood caravan holidays  and Sharon's caravan makeovers are very inspiring.

I have a couple of printed caravan images that  I love ( I have shared both of these here before ).........

This card is of Happy loves rosie's cute little 1950's caravan......

And this postcard reminds me of our family caravan from my childhood.

This is designed by Martin Wiscombe, there are more of his caravan images here

 I have very fond memories of the 1960's  Thomson caravan owned by my parents..... but sadly no photographs.
 I googled images of these caravans and found THIS page. This is the model we owned. It had orange curtains and orange carpet. I wished the pictures were in colour , the grainy black and white images look slightly depressing, but in my minds eye I can see it flooded with sunlight...all warm and cosy and colourful.

Ummmm, time for another drawing I think , don't you :0)

For my drawing I used my usual pencil, then pen to highlight the foreground

Then coloured pencils for colour. These Caran d'ache "prismalo"are my favourites

And here is the finished picture......

You can click on the image to make it larger

I used the black and white photos on the web page to remind me of the details like the wooden beading and the gas light.

Then I drew things I remember being our caravan when I was a child, some things  stayed in there permanently and it was always a simple joy to rediscover them when we were packing .

Things like games  and observers  books, a sewing kit, an alarm clock and a radio...........

My picture is set in the early morning on a sunny summer day, the table is set for breakfast and our whippet  is sleeping under the table...............

The orange curtains are fastened back to reveal a wonderful sea view and crochet cushions add to the homely interior.........

I'm so happy with how this picture has turned out, it really looks very much as I remember our caravan holidays in the 70's and was such fun to do........

Thank you for all your kind comments on my drawings..they are so wonderfully encouraging. I agree with many of you who have said they are like childrens book illustrations.....It's just how they turn out :0)

I draw a bit every day at the moment, in an attempt to get more proficient....lots of quick sketches of anything that takes my eye....many a pretty bad but hopefully they will all help me to improve.

Jacquie x