‘His mum insisted he wear the booties she made him when the weather was bad, to stop his cutsey-wutsey toes from getting wrinkles…apparently’
A fox picture for Illustration Friday, made with acrylic paints left over from my earlier fox picture plus some photoshop rain. I decided to continue my ‘theme of the day’ of grumpy load-bearing foxes. The word this week was wrinkles!
Click here to see a big wet fox…
Hooray I managed to get my paints out.
A little painting for Illustration Friday.
The word this week was ‘save’.
For my ‘first painting in a while’ I wanted to incorporate a little practice of painting waves and of course had to throw some bunnies in there…
My sketch started to quickly remind me of work by, one of my favourite artists, Michael Sowa. Who is a modern master of the sureal seascapes. So I lent a bit of the colouring from him.
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My entry for Illustration Friday.
This weeks theme is ‘Garden’.
I’m making some packets of seeds harvested from my own garden to give to friends…
‘The last known whereabouts of the Kaninchen sisters had been at the travelling Zoo…’
A colour pencil drawing, on acrylic, on card for Illustration Friday.
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For Illustration Friday.
Rabbit approached the anomaly with caution… Blackbird seemed less afraid.
The word for Illustration Friday this week is ‘citrus’.
I fancied getting my water-colours and pencils out for this one…
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...to cancel the milk before you go on holiday.
A superquicky for Illustration Friday.
There was a short time each year in early spring when the giants fur hadn’t yet moulted and the creature would be easier to find. It had to hide to save it’s hide…
The Illustration Friday word this week is ‘hide’...
I made this image using collaged shapes of paper and then added detailing in coloured pencil and acrylic paint. I had some good old fashioned fun without any digital tomfoolery!
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The Illustration Friday word this week is ‘crash’...
And for your pleasure a show and tell of the different stages…
*I started with a quick pencil-sketch in my A5 sketchbook.
*I then scanned that image and printed it off slightly bigger, to roughly fit an A4 piece of paper. I then traced that print-out on my lightbox onto a nice piece of watercolour paper with pen and ink.
*I then gave the drawing a subtle colourwash using Payne’s grey and yellow ocre watercolour… Hey Presto!
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They found the luminous sprouts right where the witch had predicted they would be.
The Illustration Friday word this week is ‘sprout’...
