Illustration Friday

Crash

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Sometimes you just gotta take a snowday!

My one year anniversary of doing Illustration Fridays is coming up soon. I managed to miss doing a lot of them mostly because my dayjob ate a little too much into my life. I’m a little bummed about that because I haven’t really taken the chance to keep up with as many of my fellow illustrators as I would like. Thank you to everyone who has left comments on my blog. It’s really lovely to be part of the on-line illustration community. I’m hoping to get to know more of you in the coming year, just as I hope I can continue to grow as an illustrator through continuing with the weekly assignments!

Sprout

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Because February 14th is coming up, I wanted to do a valentine.
I found this lovely old sketch in my sketchbook from about 10 years ago that had been waiting to become a painting for some time now. I thought it would be perfect for this week’s Illustration Friday assignment. So I redid it.

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This one’s even more mixed media than usual because I actually painted the background in acrylic. I drew the foreground in pencil and scanned it in like I usually do. And for the border, I edited a hand-drawn pattern and made it into little digital “rubber stamp” brushes in Photoshop.

80’s (Summer Bunny)

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This piece finally completes my bunny series. Ok ok. I admit it, I’m cheating. Today I finished “Summer Bunny” and as it is Summer (in my picture, though with this winter, it’s truly hard to say…), the temperature must be up in the ’80s.

The tree in this image has become a “Rag-Tree” or a “Clootie Tree” as they call it in Scotland. In most cases, the tree would be near a holy well like the tree above the Chalice Well in Glastonbury. If there is a holy well on this hill, I believe we (the viewer) must be standing in it!

Wikipedia: Clootie Well
DoChara: Ireland – Rag Trees

Buzz

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“Have you heard the latest…?”

I haven’t done anything this complex in a while. I wanted to do a period (colonial America) piece that was still fun and not stodgy. I also learned a few things doing this piece. Those beehive baskets are called skeps. And the little greenhouse things are called coldframes. You can also buy both on the internet! I think if I was going to do this piece for better accuracy, the skeps should be in the shade.

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