Illustration Friday: Transportation
// October 8th, 2010 // 11 Comments » // illustration friday
Bit of a Steam-punk flavour for this week’s Illustration Friday offering.
My name is Dave Rowley and I’m originally from Sydney, Australia. I’m currently living in Seattle with my wife Tina and our son Finn (we also have another little fella on the way).
// October 8th, 2010 // 11 Comments » // illustration friday
Bit of a Steam-punk flavour for this week’s Illustration Friday offering.
// September 10th, 2010 // 7 Comments » // illustration friday, painting, process
This week’s Illustration Friday theme is: Proverbs.
I was going to do a piece for IF this afternoon after I’d done some tidying up of my Gypsy Fire painting. But as I was finishing up the bird, the phrase ‘bird in the hand is worth two in the bush’ kept going through my mind, and I thought this painting was like a little twist on the proverb: A bird in the hand is worth two in the fire.
Is that true? I’m not sure. It may not really stand as a proverb, but it’s related. And it means I don’t have to do another illustration for today’s theme. Score!
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This painting has been a tough one to complete, I kept messing it up, then getting it back. But it’s finally done.What a relief to sign off on it.
I think I’ve learned more from this painting than any other piece I’ve done since I started the blog, and as a bonus, I’m pretty happy with the final result. I think it’s pretty much as good as I can make it, given where I’m a with my painting right now.
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News: I’m putting together an Etsy shop. This one should go up today, hopefully (It took me over two hours to work out how to list a painting the other day). I’m pretty excited to get all my completed pictures in there, and I’m looking at getting some prints made as soon as possible, too.
Other news: The RSS subscription button in the sidebar has fallen off. But you can click on the question mark and it will still sign you up as a subscriber to the blog. You should try it out–don’t worry, you can’t break it any more than it already is.
Fun Fact: If you click on the image then zoom in, you can see that the stars came out like tiny fried eggs floating in space.
// August 14th, 2010 // 8 Comments » // illustration friday
Hi Illustration Fridayers!
When I saw this week’s theme I remembered an old sketch I had done, and knew I had to do a colour version just to have another shot at it. I love the idea behind this–that there are galaxies outside of us, but also within. I really want to develop it a bit more and make a painting from it one day.