Sheep and Squirrels

Drawing practice inspired by the book '20 ways to draw a cat' by Julia Kuo

Fabric Flower Brooch

I was shown yesterday by Gill how to make a cute little brooch. And this is the one I made. It has a card circle base which is covered with fabric and all the petals are made from 1.5" squares of fabric. The centre is a covered bead. A great way to use any scraps of fabric you may have.

Colouring

Coloured with pens

and

coloured digitally

Molly

A pen drawing of Molly

Floral Collage

I used a candle as a wax resist, watercolour paints and recycled stationery for the collaged yellow flowers.

More Pages from my Sketchbook

More drawing practice - inspiration from the book '20 ways to draw a cat and 44 other awesome animals' by Julia Kuo

I'll not be blogging for a little while but I will be back.

Stuffed Panda

Canon have a website where you can download and print 3D animals on paper for free.

I tried out a small rabbit, quite fiddly but cute. I thought it maybe interesting to try an animal with fabric instead so I increased the size and tried it out. It was quite tricky as the fabric frayed, so I tried it with this panda using evolon which doesn't fray and stitched it together rather than glueing. I painted the features on. I'd only printed out the head to see how it went but decided to continue with the body....but I must have written down the size I'd increased it by wrongly... it wasn't going to fit the head. So I just made a simple body out of a spoiled t-shirt. His face his cute but could do with a bit more stuffing, as for his body....poor thing.

Bird Sketches

Drawing practice

Happy Bird-day Party

Patterns and Motifs

These are my version of drawings found in The Encyclopedia of Patterns and Motifs - these being Peruvian textiles. And these are some with various alterations.

I drew a picture of an onion being chopped and a watery eye for an illustration Friday contest, the word strong I think, but I didn't like it so I didn't enter it. I've since done a paint job on the top. I used a hand made stamp to make marks and painted over when dry. I used brusho inks and it could be used as a background page now.

All Kinds of Fish

Drawing practice below. 

Above. I've combined the fish with a photo of some transfer printed fabric which was based on the sea

Bees and Flowers

My entry for the 'Bees' Spoonflower fabric contest. 

Go to the Spoonflower.com site to see and vote for your favourites.

Robin

I've seen a few of these recently.

Watercolours and pen.

Donkey

Bugs and Butterflies

Drawing practice 

Pet Rabbit

Watercolours and pen

Floral Doodle

Funny Bunny and Text

Old Letraset letters, brusho background

Funny Bunny - collaged head, brusho, pens

Blue Dog

The first page of a sketchbook. 

Painting in watercolours.

Postcard Art

I created the picture first then digitally collaged in a vintage postcard and vintage image of butterflies from the Naturalist Library.

Camels

Photo taken in Malta. 

Camels drawn on my tablet with the Sketchbook Autodesk Pro app.