little Annabelle

Again, practising PS..... I just cant put it down!

Happy Halloween Folks!

You cant tell I've been fiddling around with PS again can you! lol. This was a quickie to practice some more buttons........ there's still so many more t go :)

IF - Scattered

So here it is!... My very first digital post!!! And for all you digiart-tech's out there, this is my first full PS painting after 3 weeks of self teaching. I am pleased with it, but I think I've scrambled my brain with all the tutorials. All I'll say is I've learnt a hell of a lot, and yes I could have sat for another 3 weeks tweaking and warping, but its time to move on with what I've learnt so far and create another one. Her face is hand drawn and part of a much larger project, but I need to fill the gap between working on a monstrous sized piece and getting a handle on PS. So there you go! I certainly know what I'll be asking Santa for :)

IF -Hibernate

I haven't done IF - Illustration Friday for yonks! Just one of those things. But I was researching the web and came across IF, and low n behold the piece I was working on fitted perfectly. Its good to be back!!!

This is my first post that features some digital tweeking... I'm trying to get to grips with PS5. I'm getting there, but you'll have to excuse the crude basics of my efforts. Whilst its great for adding layers that would take an age to do manually, I'm still an old fashioned girl at heart and love nothing more than a fresh piece of paper and a selection of pencils. Give it a few weeks and I'll look back at this effort and think OMG!!!!

Norpop!

I have mixed feelings on this one! Its taken a lot longer than I could have anticipated, but, its an area I haven't done before! I've contemplated animal drawings before but think I'd need some classes from a master in the field... At the end of the day this has been created for charity, a worthy charity, so I hope someone looks past the 'first time' effort in creating this and digs deep to help towards such a wonderful cause. I shall be sticking to animated animals for some time now! -


This piece will be going for auction towards Norpop! Final Piece measures 25cm x 22cm, Polychromo Pencils on White Archival 210gsm Paper, mounted and framed. Please support the fabulous efforts of my colleagues who are raising money:-
http://www.justgiving.com/norpop

Bangles!

Second part to the fab Four! Its been nearly 2 months now since the girls arrived, and it never ceases to amaze me how they each have such different personalities. Bangles is certainly the most inquisitive and crazy. She doesn't walk anywhere, she RUNS! The minute she see's someone she runs at you like she hasn't seen you in years, funny. Obviously they'll all need tidying once they're all complete, but for now....... a taster!

Here come the girls!!!!

It was inevitable with my new editions that a little sketch would arise. New editions I hear you say? Four Chooks - Lotty, Dotty, Bangles and Blousey! They are hilarious in their own right and definitely inspiration for sketches....... So here's the first, Lotty!

Hanging Around

Finished! And I'm pleased with this little one.... I think the expression on his face says it all really. Enjoy

From the Archives

If I remember rightly this one was done when I was recovering from first Op. I couldn't sleep and need a distraction, so sat up in the wee small hours of the morning splurging water colours and salt on paper.... it was quite therapeutic at the time, watching the colours run into one another. Although it sounds simple, it's all too easy to get slightly carried away and end up with a muddy pool of mess, so trying to get it to resemble a vase of flowers did take a small amount of skill, Honest!

Baby Grow

Its nearly complete, so here's another part to the jigsaw so to speak. This is the 4th item out of 5. No prizes, I'm afraid, for guessing what the final part will be.

Jingle Heart & Blue Bird

Another snippet from a larger drawing that's still being completed.... this is the second & third post from the drawing, so if you look back, you can start to get an idea of whats hanging on the line!

From the archives

Another gem from the archives - again in watercolour! I'm going away September, retreating for a week of nothing but art and silence. So I may take some watercolours away with me and see what transpires.

I'm still here!

I'd love to be able to say I've been travelling the world, to exotic places with sketch book in hand, but I haven't! No, Ive gradually been increasing my hours each week at work, bog standard run of the mill work!. Gradually increasing them post op, but I've found that this has completely wiped me - or as it feels erased me from planet earth for a while! Its getting better all the time, but its left the blog and everything art rather neglected. So here is a long awaited update on the Charity drawing. This picture was taken a few weeks ago so there's even more added to it -
So lets talk drawing! I'm being a total perfectionist on this, to my detriment. Ive actually lost count of the layers on this one, and every time I take a break, stand back to look at my board I find something else to alter! At this rate if I build any more layers in it will be a sculpture!!!!! So I'm giving myself a strict deadline! - :) lol - the most important thing is I'm back in the swing chaps - woo hoo!

The Old Old Sketch Book!

Another little trophy from the old sketch book.... I keep finding these little gems. Will have to give watercolours a whirl again one day.

Socks!

Well, for a start I feel as though its been an eternity since I last posted anything! But on logging into the blog its been 3 weeks - so whilst that's longer than the norm, its not as bad as I thought! At the moment I'm desperately flitting from pillar to post (not blog posts though lol!) I'm currently in the middle of 9 projects, and dividing time between these has been a juggling act. This means that I haven't actively done any of 'my own' sketches, Olive has been gravely neglected to the point I think she'll be sending a post card to me soon, and Eli is still floating somewhere off the Hawaiian coast mid surf!!!! The problem with projects for others is they 9/10 a gift for someone and therefore it would be totally inappropriate to post the finished before that 'intended' has received it - Mmmmm, Oh for more hours in the day!......... Partial posts are my apology to all for nothing substantial. It would love to be able to post some of the projects as there's some really great new stuff going on.......... So I apologise fully in advance, for yet another partial post.... and something from the old old sketch pad!!!