mixed media background

8"x8" canvas background - work in progress...

Mail Me Art

A submission for the Mail Me Art project (http://mailmeart.com/going-postal/)

Illustration Friday - Hollow

For Illustration Friday's theme of Hollow.

The original idea from my sketches was to have a cat-burglar on the roof with a sack of stolen hearts, but things took a slightly more sinister turn...

He's the Heart Thief who climbs over roof-tops stealing hearts while no one is watching...

Just a line drawing - inspired by a challenge to draw a picture without taking your pen off the paper...

So here is my girl with a paper heart...

IF - Fearless

very quick.

today was the day I was trying to make a go of clearing all the junk out of my room...now all I have is a giant mess and no more space...

Illustration Friday - Shaky

have you ever tried holding something mid-air for a long time? shaky does not even begin to cover it...

I am determined to see everyone's illustration this week - I usually leave it a couple of days and by then there are far too many to go through, but it's such a shame because there are always so many beautiful drawings and it kills me to think how many I must miss each week...

Illustration Friday - Worn

A quick Illustration Friday page...the theme this week was "worn"...

once again my scanner is doing funny things to the colours - they look really dark in the scan for some reason...

BP Portrait Awards

I managed to pop in quickly to the BP Portrait Award exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery on Monday - I didn't get the whole way round because I was meeting someone for lunch but it was excellent as usual...I'll have to go back in the next week or so and see the last wall...

I especially loved this painting by José Luis Corella...the details are so finely-painted it looks like a photograph, even if you stick your nose as close up to the painting as is humanly possible without setting off the alarms...

A new journal page...the colours are lighter in reality but the scan came out really dark...

I also have an idea for this week's IF prompt, but I just need to find time to do it...

Beautiful weather...

The weather here has been just gorgeous and seeing as exams are over and the summer stretches ahead I have been lazing around in the garden all day...

...and getting up close to our flowers with a macro lense, which is absurdly fun...it picks up so much detail, I didn't notice the little aphid in the photo of the daisy until I got them up on the computer...

Anyway, here's hoping that more lovely sunshine is on its way!

Orange blossom tree...

a quick journal page, mostly watercolours (and lots and lots of glitter)...

Illustration Friday - Drifting

For Illustration Friday - drifting
http://www.illustrationfriday.com/

ok, so I know this is kind of cheating but drifting was the first journal page I ever did for IF, and this week's topic made me do a double take, I was SO sure we'd had that word before...so here it is, adrift...[ed.]

A new journal page...there are quite a few things I'm not happy with but I think its finished...

The journal is a Ryman Soft Cover A5 Sketch Book. I wasn't sure how good the quality would be because it was quite cheap but I was very impressed - the pages are good thick cardstock and don't wrinkle with watercolours...I also love the covers; they're the same soft leathery feel as moleskines, only less expensive.

Ryman also do bigger sketchbooks so I'm thinking of getting an A4 one, but I want to make sure the pages are the same thickness before I do...

Cupcakes...

polymer clay cupcake charms in various fruity flavours...

A birthday present for a friend;

there are little sprigs of blue ribbon as well as beads...