Show Your Face on Friday - The Story Continues!

Hello and Welcome to Magpieheaven, Followers and Friends. It's Saturday here as I write up this blog post for Kim Dellow's wonderful 'Show Your Face on Friday' blog! It's been another busy week and Friday flew by without me having time to show my face! If you're wondering what I'm on about, please click here to discover Kim's great blog where she challenges us to show the faces we've been working on each week. There are some great artists and some wonderful inspiration, so please do pop across and maybe you'll feel inspired to link up a face yourself. You might remember that last week I challenged myself to draw my daughter Matilda as if she were a Tim Burton character? Here she is, with a magpie friend added to the drawing.

What kind of magic is going on in Magpieheaven? The full moon is keeping a watchful eye on the house, but Matilda is looking worried! What has her older brother been up to?

 One or two people have now asked me if I could add my son Isaac to the story, and, after taking a photo of him in his room...

and basing this sketch on it...

the story seems to be telling itself! Isaac is looking even more worried than his sister! Time is behaving strangely, as the full moon has changed to a slender crescent! Isaac doesn't actually have a pet owl. Somehow I found myself giving him one in this picture, and I can imagine him sharing his room with the rather wise and slightly anxious creature, who is a little concerned about the magic his master has been poring over in some of those dusty tomes! Maybe it will be the wise old owl who will ultimately find an answer to whatever is making Isaac and Matilda so perplexed and maybe he will put everything right! Could it be something to do with that magical ring that Matilda's magpie has filched from somewhere or someone? Whether or not I come up with the full story behind these portraits I had lots of fun creating them and experimenting with caricature. I do hope you will have a creative week and that you'll feel able to have some fun with faces and link up to Show Your Face too!