The First Day of Spring

Spring’s arrived, hooray! And such a lovely sunny, breezy day for Father’s Day too. My Frankie calendar flips over to this bright and cheerful picture by Ana Albero.

Ana Albero hails from Spain, though she is currently based in Berlin. She also works in pencil, the drawings in that medium have a pleasant and spontaneous, naïve style. I like her playfulness with the picture planes too: Albero alters the perspective as the Egyptians did.

The fresh colour palette of this illustration makes me think of Gauguin’s Fauvist pictures and summertime – a little ahead of the season admittedly. But if watermelon is more rightly the flavour of summertime, for me, the delicious mock-orange scent of the pittosporum wafting on the night breeze truly heralds spring.

See more of Ana Albero’s delightful illustrations at her website.