"Inside the box"

Drawing on recycled packaging that has been opened out. My first attempt, on a box that held chocolate ginger biscuits, was unspectacular - the waxy surface of the box repelled the ink, leaving tiny dots of a very pale grey.

Solid backgrounds, like these sketchbook drawings, were what I was aiming for - 

This box had a hole cut in the shape of a fish - it wrapped smoked salmon -

...the fish is camouflaged among the leaves ...

Another house plant; inside a box of cough syrup

In my window box, cyclamens with seedheads had survived till June - 

Transforming a tissue box -

... with two background colours...

More to come! Since June I've been producing several of these every week. Drawing is with a sharpie and the paint is either acrylic ink or watercolour.