I've just started dabbling with digital painting - I never realised how much FUN it can be! It's like painting with light instead of paint...My son had been wanting to try it but we didn't have a digital painting program, so I went and treated us to a small graphics tablet last week which came with Photoshop Elements as a starter package. I've been on the computer almost constantly since, learning how to use the program (my son is a great help as he's good at working out what to do, I got totally confused at first and couldn't remember how I did things!LOL) But here is one of my first speed-sketches, not refined yet but he wanted to come and say Hello! I used a mixture of traditional painting and digital - the background is a scan of traditionally painted textured ink layer, and I painted the creature on top digitally. This is the Weed Creature, whose hair and fur is composed of plant material, he can move around dropping seeds wherever he goes....

 In my garden I think he has a lot to do with the dandelions which are now in full flower like a golden swathe everywhere - I love dandelions, such sunny flowers and I keep them especially, they are a great early source of nectar for butterflies the first of which I saw here on 27th april (a Peacock and two Small Tortoishells).