Illustration Friday Equipment

Hi everyone, well I'm afraid my posts may be a bit sporadic for a while as we are getting closer to our renovations and our trip. I want to keep drawing and painting but it's a little bit crazy but I'll try to keep up as best I can, if I don't do it now I feel weird it's such a part of my life these days. Anyway, it's a little bit late but I wanted to post it anyway, my entry for this weeks illustration Friday topic which is 'Equipment'.

This astronaut was not impressed when he realised that his assistant hadn't packed the right equipment for his latest expedition. When he went to plant the flag he pulled out this instead, tennis anyone?

Sunday Sketches

Hi everyone this week I had a lovely time in front of the tele just sketching away and managed two Sunday Sketches. Just a couple of characters that I was playing around with Angel and Vamipire girl!

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Happy Easter Monday everyone!

Sunday Sketches

This is my piece for the lovely Sophia's Sunday sketches. If you haven't been there already, take a trip to this lovely lady's blog! She is a very inspiring woman!!

This is a doodle that I started a couple of weeks ago and when I sat down today to sketch someting up for the challenge I decided to finish it, I didn't have any plan in my head I just sat in front of the tele and doodled. I'm really glad that I finished it and it was so nice to just sit and draw for a change. Since I've started making jewellery and painting alot I don't often just sit and draw.

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New Canvas

This morning I sketched up an idea for a new canvas. I was inspired by a picture I saw of Nicole Kidman. I was watching some trashy tele the other day and they were talking about stars getting fashion wrong and used Nicole Kidman as one example. I had to disagree though as I thought she looked lovely in this dress. The dress I'm talking about is one that she wore to the oscars I think some years ago. It was a lovely greeny blue colour and she added a peacock feather. Anyway after seeing that picture the other day i couldn't get that image out of my head and thought that particular look she had would translate to one of my ladies perfectly. So stay tuned as I hope to start working on the canvas today. I also went into town and bought some texture paste which I'm going to try on this one, it's white and you can apparently mix it with acrylics to get some texture into your picture and you can paint over it etc. So I'm not sure where I'm going to put this but I'm going to experiment today. I also received my first commission yesterday. A lady from my sons school saw the canvas I donated and asked if I could do one for her but incorporate her daughter. So I'm going to use my light box so I can get a bit of a likeness but I'm going to do it in my style. This is very exciting for me and a cool project to work on as I'll be trying all sorts of new techniques. So I thought I would try out a few new things with this sketch in preparation.....hope that all makes sense

'Cleanse'

This is a pencil drawing of a new canvas I have started. I've drawn it up on the canvas and hope to paint it tomorrow, I thought I would go for a more realistic face this time. Anyway I'll be posting up the finished piece soon.

Flower lady

This is just an idea that I had that I'm thinking of turning into a canvas. I quite like it. Spring is definitly in the air over here now thank goodness and I'm getting inspired by the little blossoms I've started to see appear around town. I can't wait for the longer warmer days and lots of playing outside with the kids!!

Something different

I felt like doing something a little different today, most of my work is very bright and up beat so today I decided to do a sad picture, just to see if I could......

Pencil drawing

This past week I seem to have been playing around with faces. I wasn't 100% happy with the eyes I had been doing as I felt they needed a bit more life so I've been experimenting over and over with different ideas and seem to be settling on these sorts of eyes. I'm much happier with how the eyes are turning out now.

Portrait of Rhys

Today I thought I'd add a portait I sketched a while ago in pencil of my eldest son Rhys. I did it from a photograph and it was of a picture taken when he was about two.

I'm quite proud of it. He's growing up fast so it's nice to have little things like this.