Week 13 - Movement*

I thought of clock movements, animals and birds moving, migration - I started off with some experiments with static/movement illusion. I experimented on paper first but found it is much more effective when done digitally. 

So many of my ideas didn't make it to fruition, but I had another fresh idea - my second posting was based on banners you see at rallies: political movements. 

I wanted a meadow with lots of butterflies fluttering by. If you scroll up and down you should see them move :)

This was drawn by hand, scanned in and coloured digitally. I wanted it to be a repeated pattern, but for some reason it just didn't work.
However I am very happy as it was chosen as one of the pics on the challenge page this week :)

Week 12 - Non dominant hand

This kind of prompt is tricky because you could draw anything - so many choices means it's hard to see the wood for the trees. 
I chose the first one from a recent photo I took and the second was just playing with scribbly, doodly flowers. It was so hard not to grab the pen with my right hand when my left hand just didn't want to go where I wanted it too.

(To be completely honest, I also tried a  self -portrait or two - but they were truly awful). 

Swans
Fineliners on cartridge paper. A5

Scribbly, doodly flowers
Wacom bamboo tablet in photoshop

Week 11: Mother

I went off piste a bit with this one. To be honest I'm not entirely certain how the idea came to me (or why it came to me while I was listening to the sermon in church on sunday - but there you go!)

My children have no idea of the reference for this, if you don't know either, I suggest you watch Alfred Hitchcock's psycho - it's a classic!

Week 10 Animal*

Sometimes the categories are so broad it's hard to know where to start - it's a little less broad than last week though!
So we have two smiling animals and one that makes me smile:
a quokka that my son took a photo of when he visited Rotness Island near Perth - they can't stop smiling
a goat and 
an elephant

Quokka

A5 Sketchbook, colour pencils

Goat
fine liner, A5 sketchbook, cartridge paper

Elephant
fine liner, A5 sketchbook, cartridge paper

Week 9 - watercolour

This kingfisher posed very nicely for me just after a frosty sunrise recently.
He's painted in watercolour but the green background was added digitally.
I wasn't sure which to add, so I used both.
In the end, I actually think a turquoise background works quite well.

You can buy it on a whole bunch of stuff in my rebubble store :)

This is part of a pattern template
The tooth lines are fine liner, the rest is all watercolour

Week 8 - Horizon

New Horizons space probe viewing Pluto over the horizon of Pluto's moon, Charan

Fline liner on cartridge paper, coloured in photoshop

Week 7 - Kindergarten