L is for Lion

More drawing practice, then I altered this photo of a dog sculpture seen in Madrid with one of the drawn lion heads.

3D Printed Items

These are some of the items we have printed with the 3D printer. None of them have been designed by me, they were all found on the internet. I've painted them though which I found quite a challenge.

This is what the castle looked like before painting.

then after many attempts at painting - I wasn't keen on the colours on the previous attempts.

You can buy the plastic in different colours so they are not always brown to start with.

We have had a lot of spiders in the garden this year as you can see from this photo. [click on the photos for a closer look]

Lions, Turtles and Bees

More drawing practice.

Inspired by the book '20 ways to draw a cat' by Julia Kuo

Bears and Lions

Drawing practice, ideas from the book '20 ways to draw a cat'.

Tiger and Lion

Two more altered images from the Naturalist's Library.

The top one was just altered with wire, craft wire, it really is that colour.

The textured background below was a photo I took at Finchale Abbey, not exactly sure what it is now, but there was no water on it. The lion has a surprised look on his face so I thought I would leave on the large ivy leaves.

Pages from Sketchbook 12

All have watercolour backgrounds and found images

The watercolour fish also have white pen markings

the elephant was made of decorated/painted paper scraps

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