Road Trip

A fun Moleskine spread I did for an art friend in Massachusetts. Her theme for the journal was "road trip" so I drew a cartoony sketch of my neighborhood. The Star Trek away team often visit. I've seen them.

Life Drawing Marathon

I attended a marathon life drawing session on Saturday and plonked myself in the 2 hour pose room for the entire day. These drawings are from that session, all in colored pencil. That was a most tiring day! It's one thing to be at a 2 or 3 hour session and another entirely to draw for 9 straight hours. I draw every day for work, but I'm up and about doing other admin things so it's never a straight session.  Can't wait for the next marathon. I hope it's soon.

Life Drawing

Totally off day today. Here's the only halfway decent thing I did today in the life drawing session. Everything else was fairly horrific and bad. I usually manage to get at least two good drawings but today.... I don't know. I'll blame it on the rain or something, or my interrupting kids. :)

Busy week this week with lots of projects on the go for work and trades for art friends.

Mixed Media Figurative Art

I drew these mixed media ladies this week for my Etsy shop. They're all 18 x 24 with colored pencil on kraft paper with some acrylic paint thrown in for good measure. They'll also be available in my Zazzle store and probably elsewhere in print and wrapped canvas format. I just need to get around to adding them first. These drawings are all based on photos by Marcus Ranum.

Life Drawing

More life drawing from last week's session. This one is coloured pencil on kraft paper (my fave).

I tired using chalk pastels last week (for the first time) and that didn't go over so well. I don't have a clue what I'm doing with them so I'll have to give it another few whirls and do a bit of experimenting. I did manage to color my clothing though. That was fun. :)

Party Invitations! Fun!

I made some invitations for my Zazzle store. These can be personalized and new information added for your own parties. They're printed on various sorts of paper for you to choose from.

I went with a Day of the Dead design for one and the ultra smiling cat on the other. He's one of my more popular designs. I guess it's the big grin. It's catchy! :)

Mixed Media Red Heads

A pair of pretty mixed media red heads on kraft paper (backed with illustration board). These were drawn in pencil with marker used for the hair. And book pages too!

Both are available from my Etsy shop. They're 4 x 6" originals.

Pretty Calavera Girl

Here's a pretty calavera girl for my Etsy shop. I hope to paint a series of these since they're so much fun. Time pending!

This is acrylic with gel pens on illustration board with a coat of varnish for protection.

Art Nouveau Red Head with Daisies

Here's a pretty art nouveau style portrait painted for my Etsy store. I finally managed to get things sorted with descriptions, shipping and whatnot. I swear that the admin for selling art is more work than the actual art!

I hope to do some more art nouveau style portraits as well as some of my fave - Day of the Dead.

If you're interested, head over to my Etsy store to check out this portrait and some others as well as some ACEO prints now available.

Mini Portraits

Here's another mini lady portrait, in acrylic. I'll stick this on Etsy.... when I get around to opening the store. So much information to gather for one little item. Who said painting was the hard part? I think it's actually putting together all of the descriptions and tags and shipping info.