I’ve been making a few paintings in the last year or so depicting some of my boys’ most treasured toys. This is the latest one, which I completed this week.

It depicts a six and a bit centimetre Bluey toy, from the Australian animated childrens (and adults really) programme of the same name.

I don’t get a huge amount of time to paint at the moment, and as a result there was a gap of about eight months between working this one up to near completion and finally bringing it on home, during which period I forgot where I was ‘up to’ with it, so just dotted a few i’s and crossed a few t’s as best I could in a couple of brief sessions over the last week or so.

The painting is A4 in size (29.7 x 21 cm), and was made in acrylics on Winsor & Newton canvas-texture paper.