A little bit of Theo on everybody's mantlepiece.

Later than they were meant to be, but here at last. Theo has been slaving over a hot paintbrush throughout December, creating unique cards for everybody on his list.

Some have been designed with a few simple swipes of the brush - others have been given more saturation of paint. Either way, nobody else will have anything like it!

(He's available for commissions, by the way.)

Theo's range of Christmas cards, coming soon!

Theo has begun work on his personal range of Christmas cards - each unique, and adding a splash of colour to mantlepieces the country over. Watch this space!

A commission, at last!

I recently sent the link for this website to a dear friend of mine. He appreciates art, so Theo's pictures were a great delight to him. Obviously. He also set Theo his first commission; requesting a bespoke piece that could adorn his wall, and make him a huge profit when Theo becomes famous (in whatever capacity; he may turn out to be 'Theo, the fastest binman in the West' for all we know...).

Theo was not in the painting mood for a few days after my friend and I spoke, but then the muse struck him and he was off. This was his creation - it speaks to me of the Far East, but I'll leave you to make up your own mind...

Izzy Whizzy, let's get busy...

Minimalist this felt-tip creation might be, but there's no doubt what the young artist had in mind when he sat down to work. Having just been to watch the fireworks in Banstead and declaring that he 'doesn't like bangy ones', I feel this picture truly reflects his delight in the 'whizzy ones'...

Good enough to eat

A diversion away from painted or chalked art; instead Theo's first stab at baking (he didn't watch The Great British Bake Off but his mother might have...).

A big fan of cook books, Theo likes to sit on the kitchen floor whilst waiting for his tea and look through them all. He's particularly fond of Lorraine Pascale, and one day happened upon a recipe that must put several thousand calories on you by reading it alone. Bags of caster and icing sugar, bricks of butter and what seemed like my own weight in chocolate, but it looked fantastic on the page and we did a pretty good job of replicating it too.

In case you're wondering, Theo's area of expertise mainly revolved around the tipping in of ingredients at the beginning of the process, and the Malteser decoration at the end. In between he concentrated on moving his cars and little men around on the living room table.

(Note to Paul Hollywood - I'm available for the next series....)

A true artist will work with any material

Metallic white and red were mixed to make a cupcake pink - this went down very well with Theo who made some beautiful sparkly swirls. He then went on to paint over all this with his other colours, but some pink remains at the top left. Those with extremely sharp eyes will notice that in amongst the pink paint is a couple of, let's call them 'splats' of Thomas the Tank Engine yoghurt, which dropped on to the paper whilst he worked. Hey, artists have got to eat you know...

 

And for those of you who are curious - it was the 'Harold the Helicopter' yoghurt from the set of six that he selected today.

Thinking about breakfast

This was a simple affair - two colours were chosen, and two colours only were used. Is it an abstract of a cheeky cloud scudding across the sun? Or perhaps it's a comment on my presentation of breakfast; I'm not the tidiest at dishing up fried eggs...