Week 39 Melbourne

I asked a facebook friend, who lives in Melbourne, to send me some photos which she thought summed up her home city.

I chose her picture of Flinders Street Station. She told me it was an iconic building and it's where many people meet. So this has a sub-title of, 'I'll meet you by the clocks'.

Fine liner, cartridge paper, A4

Week 33 Mythology

One image

I chose the Mermaid of Zennor
Here is my interpretation of what she looked like based on a carving in the parish church in Zennor.
Photos of the carving and her story can be found on this link.

Week 32 Fabric

It's a busy week for me so I needed to stick to line work and not over-do the detail. So ideas of fabric collages went out of the window along with ideas of drawing super macro close-ups of  woven material in pencil or watercolours.

An alternative definition of fabric relates to the walls and roof of a building, and as it turns out there is a London nightclub called fabric. So, here is a queue waiting along the walls of the building.

I started drawing the people at the middle and worked right. When I came to finish the queue I learned that I can draw people better from left to right. Overall, the impression of people is OK even though I would have liked to have time to refine it.

Week 31 Shakespeare*

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Wherever do you start with Shakespeare? There are so many possibilities!
My first thought was to reproduce a scene from Midsummer Night's Dream I liked in a children's anthology, but I saw exactly that image done by someone else and couldn't bring myself to do it too.

Necessity is the mother of invention and I ended up doing two. The first are Malvolio's ridiculous cross gartered stockings rendered in watercolour on A3 paper. I was really happy with how this turned out, but it was my second one that got the best feedback from the group - and again was in the weekly picks!

Here are my doodle characters as Macbeth's enemies pretending to be Birnam Woods. A copy of this is winging its way to Australia - someone liked it so much she wanted to own it! So exciting for me!
*and my little doodles were picked on the challenge blog!!

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!