I have been naughty. I've got severely out of sync on the uploading and blogging recently, so I'm going to upload everything in rather a hotch potch, sorry.
This is another David Parkin design, featured in "Simply Cards" magazine.
I scanned the image and printed it out, then used watercolour pencils to colour it. Added some stickles glitter glue and gems. Flowers were uncoloured and I used my copics to colour them in. Added a feather too :)
Sunday, September 05, 2010
Friday, July 09, 2010
Pixies
Actually got round to using some of the free images that come in the centre of "Simply Cards" magazine. I really liked these ones by David Parkins and they were lots of fun to colour in too!
I love my copics, but it's just so much easier to use watercolour pencils...
If you missed the mag and would like the images, I could always send you a scan. :)
http://www.simplycardsmag.com/
http://www.davidparkins.com/blog.htm
Scout Leader Commission
Researched some of the badges and then recreated them as papercuts. I wasn't too sure about the result ( it was a bit big too!) but the person who commissioned it was very happy. Tg. :)
Used nestabilities on the Cuttlebug for this. Restricted colour palette in an attempt to stop it becoming too bitty.
90% of my cards now are commissions. Its good to keep being challenged.
Used nestabilities on the Cuttlebug for this. Restricted colour palette in an attempt to stop it becoming too bitty.
90% of my cards now are commissions. Its good to keep being challenged.
We love post.
Early bird brought a package from PaperArtsy yesterday. Unfortunately they weren't stamps for me, I'd ordered some for a friend's birthday. I have to say that it was an extremely fast and effecient service. They were here in next to no time and the comms were brilliant.
PaperArtsy kick ass. :)
http://www.paperartsy.co.uk/
PaperArtsy kick ass. :)
http://www.paperartsy.co.uk/
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Trentham Gardens
Welcome to my new blogdom. It is currently being preened and plumped but will contain properness and postings very soon. x
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Finished Dragons
Finally uploaded the pics of my dragon tiles onto flickr. I think they need a bit of touching up before I photograph them to put onto etsy. I'm not entirely happy with the result, I wish I hadnt had them dipped!
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Grandad's Birthday
Another batch of cards done, and a few more to upload onto Flickr.
Working on some Easter cards now.
Could do with some inspiration!
Working on some Easter cards now.
Could do with some inspiration!
Friday, March 05, 2010
Cycling Commissions
One of the results of doing commissions for other people, is that their interests may not coincide with your own, and suddenly you are having to think of even more cycling ideas! I've done six recently and am now struggling for ideas!
Anyway, fancied doing something different for this one...bit more modern?
Uploaded another batch of pics onto Flickr, you can get there by clicking on the picture.
Anyway, fancied doing something different for this one...bit more modern?
Uploaded another batch of pics onto Flickr, you can get there by clicking on the picture.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
Painting for my friends.
Bit slow on the updates at the moment, but I have got time to just borrow this photo from my friend "T" and show you the painting I did for her and her boyfriend just before Xmas. She supplied the canvas and I painted a waterscape picture, featuring the kind of boats they are interested in, ish. :)
Its a small triptych (3 x 30cmx40cm canvas) and really it was meant to be a stopgap measure to cover a lighting socket issue until they found a piece of art they liked. Its been hard to find exactly what they want, so I thought atleast this would be better than nothing. I think they want to keep it now...
As it I didnt quite get enought time to finish it properly, if they are keeping it, I might take my paints and smooth off some of the rough edges and qwerky issues, I didnt really finish the sky at all!
The middle canvas is twice as thick as the other two. And I had to do a bit of photoshopping to swap the order they were in, cos they were designed to be in this order, but were put up in reverse..it didnt really make much difference tho, apart from to the water line.
They look ok in a thumbnail :)
Its a small triptych (3 x 30cmx40cm canvas) and really it was meant to be a stopgap measure to cover a lighting socket issue until they found a piece of art they liked. Its been hard to find exactly what they want, so I thought atleast this would be better than nothing. I think they want to keep it now...
As it I didnt quite get enought time to finish it properly, if they are keeping it, I might take my paints and smooth off some of the rough edges and qwerky issues, I didnt really finish the sky at all!
The middle canvas is twice as thick as the other two. And I had to do a bit of photoshopping to swap the order they were in, cos they were designed to be in this order, but were put up in reverse..it didnt really make much difference tho, apart from to the water line.
They look ok in a thumbnail :)
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