Week 15 Ocean

I had so many ideas and so much stage fright this week.
I've bottled out of some of my more ambitious ideas and kept it relatively simple, and to a theme.
I love the light coming through the water and onto the ocean floor - so here's a literal interpretation and a repeating pattern developed from my tutorial which I wrote a few weeks ago.

Acrylic on paper, A3

Shells drawn on paper with a fineliner
Pattern created in photoshop, then coloured.
Ripples added as an extra layer.

Week 26 Land**

2 images

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!