This one’s quite an old one, I just had a little play and reworked it a little….
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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Violin…
I’ve been a reading a lot of Charles De Lint’s books lately, guess it’s coming out in my doodles…
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A dab here and a dab there….
I’ve been working on this one on and off for two years or more… here’s how it looks right now. I originally started it in oils but (due to time constraints) have been working on it digitally- I hope to finish it before the world ends….
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with child…
Swan Rider Painting…Update.
I started this one a month or so ago, and due to the illustration work I’m currently involved with, I haven’t completed it, but I did do a session earlier this week, here’s how the painting’s looking so far… (See earlier posts for the previous version.)
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With branches for fingers….
Today’s doodle…..
Tree Ladies…
More tree maidens, warmup drawings from this morning….
Warts n’ all….
I like drawing beautiful things.. pretty ladies, landscapes, wildlife… but sometimes it’s just a lot of fun to doodle ‘ugly’, this face appeared in my sketchbook last night and I just rolled with it…
Don’t Go Under The Bridge…
… A naughty man lives there.
Seal friend….
I’ve just finished watching the incredible movie- ‘The Secret of Roan Inish’ (highly recommended). I just had to draw a Selkie and some of her friends… Feels like I’ve been hit with a turbo charged boost of inspiration today, but it does make me miss my old homeland (the UK) rather a lot. I was fortunate enough to live in a few coastal towns in Wales and Cornwall and the imagery of the movie brought back many fond memories….
Also, I’m very excited to announce that I’ll have a new book available shortly entitled ‘The Journey Into Faerie’, written by the remarkable Sally Odgers and Illustrated by me. We’re self-publishing this one and it’ll be out shortly, just awaiting the arrival of the proofs, I’ll put up another post when the book’s ready…. here’s a cover teaser:
Mischief…
Today’s doodle. Have so much work on the go, I’m afraid I’ll probably only be sketching these quickies for a spell….
in the meantime though… here’s a work-in-progress I’ve had on the go for a while, I’d like to get back onto this at some point….
A Giant Sketch….
I’m in the process of putting my new art compilation book together, having gone through the sketches to shortlist, I’ve noticed a distinct lack of male characters in my drawings… It’s true, I draw a lot of lassies. I’m setting about balancing this out as of now, there’ll be more blokey drawings up as the days go by.
Old Dwarf Portrait…
Regular Rembrandt aren’t I (laughs)… I wanted to have a bit of a play with lighting on this one. I’ve been looking over my work and although (maybe) some of it has a certain amount of mood and atmosphere, I’ve come to the realisation that much of it is lacking in different lighting effects… I’ll be rectifying that in future works.
More Trees….
I bought a new sketchbook this morning, the paper is an off-white colour, is rougher than the paper I’m used to drawing on…and I love it. This is the first entry, had to be a tree of course!
and on a different note… A project I’ve been working on for teh past 4 months or so has just been completed and approved… I’m very excited! More on that later.
Tea With a Troll….
This one’s a drawing I did a little while ago, I added the inks last night in front of the telly. I’ve take to printing off sketches very faintly onto watercolour paper, then I ink over the top of the printed matter (which barely shows through underneath). Hot pressed watercolour paper is great for laying down a pen line, and on top of that, with the sketch still sitting untouched, (and the piece I’ve just inked), I’ve got two pieces of art… My sketches are quite popular on Facebook and Ioften sell them, so it’s great to have both.
A mermaid and some gulls….
This mornings’ doodlings to get the had loosened up for work…
Long Dress…
Recent watercolour painting. I haven’t finished this as I’ve reached a bit of a ‘stand-off’ with it. I’ve been playing a little in photoshop to see if I can rectify some of the lighting issues etc… This is what I have so far….
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