Illustration Friday: Transportation

// October 8th, 2010 // 11 Comments » // illustration friday

Bit of a Steam-punk flavour for this week’s Illustration Friday offering.

Gypsy Fire (Finished!)

// 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.

Illustration Friday: Star Gazing

// 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.

Illustration Friday: Fearless

// May 7th, 2010 // 8 Comments » // illustration friday

Illustration Friday: Cocoon

// May 1st, 2010 // 12 Comments » // illustration friday

Illustration Friday: Hatch

// December 11th, 2009 // 6 Comments » // illustration friday