Le blog de bénédicte caillat

Today feels like a cup-of-coffee-and-a-croissant-please day, and while you're at it, make it 8...! ***************

You can now find - and buy! - lovely cards especially made for tea lovers from my online shop (here)! They are also great cards for housewarming parties, invitations, thank-you cards , and so much more...! I will very soon list some larger prints, perfect...

I can't get enough form these colourful veg from the Farmers Market! Here are the small Yellow Tomatoes, which would make any tart or salad a work of art! (I'm off to try now!) ********

This week's catch from my local Farmers Market, still in season: Tomatoes. The red oblong-shaped Manzano tomatoes, and the green Beef tomatoes - a first for me! They are a real treat for the eye, and so very exciting to paint! *********

I have been very busy with some new orders for greeting cards; here's a sneak preview of some of them (there sre more coming out of the printer as I type...) I will also make them available on my website very shortly! ********

Any excuse for a treat...! The days getting shorter, the temperatures dropping, Monday morning blues, you name it! But before I got down to the bottom of my big box of Quality Streets, I had saved a handfull to sketch. American pastel artist Loriann Signori...

It's official: Autumn is upon us! The season for warm colours, long walks in the woods, picking deep red leaves, and admiring gold trees... And the season's harvest is full of inspiration for colours lovers! So let's start with the Bitter Apples, with...

Farmers Market, week 2: I brought back loads of inspiration for my daily sketch sessions! This one was too beautiful to miss: I love its deep pinkish-purply colour, running through the vibrant greens of the leaves as if someone had drawn them on... And...

Somehow I seem to have lost track of time and neglected my daily routine of warm-up sketches... But I will make up for it, promise! Meanwhile, I've baked some vanilla biscuits filled with strawberry jam, and this illustration is the only evidence left...!...

Beautiful vegetables from our local Farmers Market in West Hampstead last week end! (Have you ever seen purple carrots and cauliflowers?!). Endless inspiration for colourful sketches... (The Romanesco Cauliflower does require more than one session though,...