Seaside characters for Putterfingers.co.uk

1 of 9  © Peter Gander 2013

Commission for www.putterfingers.co.uk a Suffolk-based mini-golf company. 1 of 9. Original: Ink  and watercolour on 300gsm The Langton Grain Fin paper.

Tea towel: You, me and a cup of tea

© Peter Gander 2012  You, me and a cup of tea

Another hand-drawn design for our Have a Gander tea towel range in ‘tea-leaf’ green. Original artwork drawn with dip pen and Indian ink. We now have over 10 independent Kent, Sussex and Surrey shops making orders for the tea towels and the brilliantly-named To Dry For specialist tea towel retailer has placed an order for our Jubilee design. Available May 2012.

The Beetle

The Beetle  © Peter Gander

Back to acrylics for this new painting, a Christmas present for my eleven year-old son Jack. It’s our bottle-green Mexican import Volkswagen Beetle, in the (much lovelier) old style of body design, though only a decade old as it was one of the last run of Mexican imports made in the retro style in 2003. Jack loves classic cars and is very fond of this motor (as I am) and asked that I paint if for him months ago, so he should be chuffed with this. I had got to the stage where the car was finished on a plain white canvas and something was lacking, so I gave it a bit more of a cooler, urban feel, with spattered and running paint. (Hope he’s too busy to be looking at my website before Christmas Day ;)