When I was at Art college I was very interested in using the bright colours of sweets when painting my pictures.  I was definitely influenced by the artist teachers who were there.  Mr Cadenhead was a landscape painter and used to go up mountains with his canvases and paints and sit for a day painting.  Mr Grant Clifford also painted and depicted in a bright way the symbols of society in his large paintings. Another artist used sculpture and photography to record  images.

Recently I watched Johnnie Dep in Alice In Wonderland and noticed he had a scarf with all-sorts on it and it looked great.  This morning then is a throwback to what used to help my creativity flow - images of sweets.

I did this sketch today to show how easy it is to change the background in an image. I suppose these sketches could be used to make fabric items such as cushions or even handbags. Anya Hindmarch's handbag designers are influenced by the bright sweet wrappers of Qualiy Street!