Doodles & Diamonds for Frogs

A couple of doodles

A friend pointed out that I had missed off the reflective light areas on the eyes of my frog, so I have now put on 'diamonds' for this. I think they look a whole lot better. 

Illustration Friday & Landscape Doodle

The Illustration Friday challenge is 'Stir'.

I have lost my spoon [in the picture above], can you find it, I need it to stir my soup.

Doodle from a sketchbook. I number all my sketchbooks and I realised today that two of them have the same number - doh!

More Fish

three more pages from the 'sea' sketchbook

Fish Collages

Two from my 'Sea' sketch book. The fish are watercolour paintings collaged onto textured backgrounds.

The fish above is a parrot sea perch and below is a truncated sunfish.

The Sketchbook Challenge & Gold Squirly Picture update

For the Sketchbook Challenge - Spilling Over

Below - I posted a photo of this last year but I have now altered it. The picture is made from 2 canvases, one was cut in the centre to make a well. The swirls are made from rolled up newspaper, then covered in lots of paint and metallic paint. The new bits are the tiny gold balls and more paint. The balls can be seen better on the close ups and click on the picture.

Sketchbook Doodles of Animals & Birds

A few doodles from one of my sketchbooks.

Illustration Friday & Watered Print

Above is my Illustration Friday entry for 'Warning'

 From time to time I have printer problems and when I am trying to get it to work properly I print off a page with bright squares and things, below is one of these kind of prints on glossy photo paper. Afterwards I decided to put water on it, left it a while to see what would happen, I like the effect.

Oriental Sea Transfer Printed Fabric

After doing the swarm picture the other day I remembered about a length of cloth I did similar to the background which has been just sitting in my drawer for a number of years. I didn't have any photos of it on the computer as it was made when I was at college -pre digital camera. It is a transfer print - ie I painted the paper with transfer paints then transferred the design onto man made fabric with a large heat press. Even on a large heat press the fabric had to be moved along as the fabric measures 294 cm x 60 cm. [nearly 3 metres long] To add extra interest to the painting I stitched the fabric and sandwiched objects such as dyed feathers and dyed cord, paper etc between the transfer paper and fabric. Another reason why I hadn't done photos of it is because I couldn't find anywhere to hang it to show all the length. Curtain poles are not high enough, my rooms are not high enough, so I laid it on the floor for the pictures below. The colours start light at the top and then deepen, the darkest being at the bottom. I still like it, but it doesn't go with anything in my house.

The piece was hung in the Durham Oriental Museum with the work of the other college students. Why do I call it oriental sea you may ask? Because the work was inspired by the sea paintings of Katsushika Hokusai.

Frog Picture

This is a picture that I've done for my 'Shelter' project.

'Freddie frog shelters under the flowers from the midday sun'

I painted on a canvas with acrylic paints, then glued on lots of beads.

People Book [60] the last page

 My book is all done, complete, finished [unless of course I had more at a later date, but for now it is done] and I finish with skeletons. I may cover it.... Altered book, found images, collage. The 4 similar skeletons were a stamp that I made from fun foam and I dressed the three on the right with clothes from a shop catalogue.

Illustration Friday - Swarm

I did the fish pictures sometime ago, but I altered the one below just last week.

The top one was a pen drawing then I have digitally layered it over a transfer print. [painting on paper with transfer paints then heat transferred to fabric]

The swarm below was also mostly plain but the fish are patterned with some purchased downloadable backgounds.

Below - I did doodly patterns on the fish and made it into a repeat pattern