Just sewing the finishing touches on the red boots. Check out all the other great red illustrations at Illustration Friday.
More holiday swimming fun. Is anyone looking for a great art activity for children? Try scratch-lite. Draw up your design on a piece of paper. Make sure you provide the children with visual ideas for their drawing as this will help greatly with the results of their work. Place your picture onto the scratch-lite paper […]
It’s so hot here at the moment. So it’s been a good week to spend at the local pools. This illustration was done with educational publishers in mind. I thought I might be brave and send some of my work out to the education market. It has been such a long time since I’ve used […]
I was trying to think what apart from the obvious makes a buzzing noise and this is what I came up with. The flapping noise of the wings of the hummingbird can often be mistaken for the buzzing of a bee. This bear who is enjoying fishing in the river is a little distracted by […]
My speed cleaning kit. My sister gave me the book Speed Cleaning by Shannon Lush and Jennifer Fleming for Christmas. According to this book I’m supposed to spend 15 minutes a day cleaning one room. Well worth a read if you struggle with house work as I do. We’ll see how successful it will be.
I used these little exercises to pratice drawing straight with the pen, no pencils, no erasers and am quite pleased with the results. I am looking forward to my copy of Creative License arriving in the mail as I am hoping to use this to improve my creativity and drawing skills.
After spending 6 days in Perth I thoroughly recommend it as a holiday destination. Infact it would be a fantastic place to live. What I noticed most were the beautiful blue skies and the relaxed pace and how much walking everyone did. While there I took my little set of watercolor paints and did some […]