"Inside the box": yellow

 "Indian Yellow" is one of my go-to tubes of paint. Here it celebrates the new flower on the peace lily, inside an amoxycillin box -

Something new...

...this is the first time I used packaging from a vaping product; since then I've picked up dozens from the road. They usually open quite cleanly and are a good size; a series is growing...

This shape used to be a punnet holding tomatoes - turned upside down, it (or its cousin) looks rather like a kimono -

In this box were chocolate eclairs -

More vaping boxes, auditioning for parts in the chorus line -

A King Oscar sardines box -

"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.