A new painting in my Animal Series: Mrs. Prickle, cook extraordinaire

Mrs. Prickle didn't trust kitchen maids. She'd been cook to Lady Tabby for years.

"I worked my way up from Tweeny thru scullery maid to where I am today with hard work and gumption," she'd tell anyone who'd here. It was most often her poor lil kitchen maid.

Today Mrs. Prickle was at her normal outting, basket in hand with her tools of the trade, off to the green grocers. She didn't trust kitchen maids to fetch her fruit and veg.

Her little basket contained her tools of the trade: scissors to cut out any bad items she'd not pay for, gloves to keep down bruising, and her "big eye" as she called, a bone handled magnifying glass mi'lady had given her 15 Christmas' ago."

Yes, Mrs. Prickle did not trust kitchen maids with market days.

Sketch before color added

I hope you like my Hedgehog cook. I'm still enjoying peopling my art journals with these little characters. Their stories sometimes connect or sometimes stand alone. There is a joy in treating them as separate pieces, but considering how they might all come together one day.

A few layers in GIF form.

Thank goodness we have power today, as we'd just had a large snow storm. Having gone from a week of Spring like weather to a foot of snow and ice makes one hunker down in the studio even more.

I did get behind in my schedule last week, as I was thrown off by #3speak no longer working for me, so this week, I'm going to try and get to that 5 day a week upload, perhaps it will have to be all art, tho I'd hoped to include some video in there as well, we shall see.

Thank you for looking at my new little character and I hope you get a moment in your day to indulge in your own creative pursuits, whatever they might be.

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