I am having a love affair with iridescent gel. I can't seem to get away from it, not that I want to. I can't help but throw some into almost all my paintings at the moment. I just love the lustre.
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cartooning
A fling with iridescent gel
Life Inspired for Sunday Sketches
I do have to apologise for this new Life Inspired cartoon. I couldn't help myself.
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Cupid stings
I've dug up a cartoon that I never I've never shown at Sunday Sketches (in fact it was drawn the week after I posted my first ever Sunday Sketches submission back in November 2010). He's here sitting on my hard drive doing nothing much and as he is a cute little thing, I thought...
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Paint Party Friday
This painting was done nearly two years ago (full post about it here) and was also for Illustration Friday. Done in craft paint before I had any idea of what I was doing and while my youngest ws still a baby so done at the speed of light, but I have to say, despite...
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Illustration Friday – Teacher
It has been a long time since I've participated in Illustration Friday, (past efforts) but it is a great challenge to play in with some absolutely fantastic artists participating, so I've been looking for some inspiration in response to their challenges for some time now. I finally was determined enough to sit down...
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More watercolour and pen work
I have two sketches this week to submit for Sunday Sketches. The first is the second in the new series of 'Life inspired' scribbles I'm doing. The second sketch...well, I'll let you make up your mind about that one.
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29 Faces wrap up
I just sat down and drew and as I drew she got uglier and uglier and soon that ugly was doing its best to camouflage the fact that my perspective skills suck big time and it began claiming that the wonky eye is just a natural deformity for a goblin librarian.
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C is for Cartoon
When I was a kid I wanted to grow up to be a cartoonist. Nowadays when I say what I've always wanted to be it's 'an artist', but back before and around the age of ten, it was 'a cartoonist'.
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Hoonhilda
Trying to get back into the habit of answering challenges (they give so much inspiration and have me doing things I would never have thought of otherwise). I discovered Got an Inkling over at Dthaase's site today and was immediately inspired. Great challenge that one. So I scribbled down a sketch to answer that...
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Illustration Friday – A bicycle in 15 minutes
It has been a while since I've attempted an Illustration Friday topic, and in the past all my entries have been paintings. But yesterday I needed a prompt to try something out, and I happened to remember that this week's IF was bicycle. So we have bikes.
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