Thursday 16 July 2015

Week 28 Winter

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The north wind doth blow,
And we shall have snow,
And what will the poor robin do then, poor thing?

He'll sit in a barn,
And keep himself warm,
And hide his head under his wing, poor thing!

A favourite rhyme from my childhood, brought to life back then by Brian Wildsmith. I was careful only to look back at his illustration after I had done mine. I'll add his soon x

Oil pastels on black card.
From my own photos - various robin photos and a very fluffy baby long tailed tit.



Another childhood favourite was, 'I am a bunny' by Richard Scarry. I have other Richard Scarry books which I also love, but didn't realise until I drew this that this was also his.
I really wanted to be this bunny when I was little. The book shows what the bunny likes to do in all the different seasons, it taught me to enjoy spring flowers, lie in the grass and watch the insects and birds, to chase and be chased by butterflies, all sorts of lovely things; ultimately once snow has come , to curl up in my hollow tree and dream about spring.

'And when winter comes, 
I watch the snow falling from the sky.'
Oil pastels on tinted paper




Week 27 Style

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I couldn't get past Audrey Hepburn iconic image in my head this week - but stylish as she is, it's not very innovative to recreate a version of one of her posters is it?

So this is what I did do:
A quick play on words in photoshop and a copy of the picture I did for childhood in week 22 re-imagined in the style of Miro. 
Line drawn on paper with colour and texture added in photoshop.



Monday 6 July 2015

Week 26 Land**

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The picture I wanted to do, with a little doodle character landing after a parachute jump, I haven't finished. I just haven't been able to achieve the simplicity needed (yet!).  I shall have to return to it at some point.

So here we have a more successful doodle - a little pirate cabin boy up the crow's nest. 





And a view from above of me doing a buddy skydive jump two years ago.
I wanted to keep the colours limited, hence blue for the cloud outline, green for the fields and a contrasting colour for the jumpers - I would have preferred orange, but don't have it, so I settled for pink!



Just looking at the photo I used for this used to make me feel dizzy, but I'm better with it now!

Oh, wow! Both are in this week's picks on the challenge blog!