A watercolor of a horse surrounded by red and yellow daisies and a few light beams here and there.
here it is on fabric and paper
Tag: animals
a b c alphabet letters
These three little letters were an idea I had a long time ago and I did not forget about them. I love drawing and sketching little critters and I hope I can get a complete alphabet one day of little marching letters. When I drew them the sketch had little white feet of some kind and I carried it through here in the photoshop drawing.
The red and green above are the original ideas which I managed to save from oblivion.
I love the little legs and I think if I can be consistent throughout the alphabet on treatment of this kind of nice flowing design, white feet, treatment on their heads and eyes especially and the thick and thin variety in the black lines, I hope I may actually have something here. I did do an alphabet a long time ago and here is one letter done in scratchboard and gold. I can’t find it right now but it will show up. It was pretty awesome.
Of course, I know I’m going about this in the wrong way because these should be done in vector in AI and to do them as bitmap in photoshop is pretty labor intensive. But….I wanted to get the idea down why I still remember it. Also I have lots of brushing up to do in Illustrator and photoshop is right now easier for me.
My Orchid Kitty
This kitty is covered in orchids. I had orchids sitting in front of me from my patio garden and I drew the simple outline of kitty, added wings, a little bird and some fun and not so ordinary color palette. Then I drew abstract fragments of the flowers on his body. The little bird ended up having one of his wings looking like another bird facing in the opposite direction. a perk from heaven.
The font is Gigi. I got the color just by going down a few shades darker than the orchid flower on the color wheel. The whole drawing was done in photoshop with a few simple brushes. lots of layers: orig. scanned art, outline, coloring, text, and a white layer in there to be able to see what it finally would look like.
I love getting comments. Let me know what you think: either about this revision series or any comments on the art are appreciated.
A Hammock rests here
She was reading but my bet is she won’t finish this book and very soon it will gently fall to the ground. She is looking pretty relaxed with her pet rabbit on her shoulder. I had a pet rabbit once in Pittsburgh, PA. This little pen and ink sketch done with black ink on white watercolor paper dates back a few years when I was contemplating writing an alphabet book. I am sure I had slated it to be H for Hammock but, since I’ve been putting images on kids t-shirts I’m opting for the word “Rest”. I have a feeling moms would like to rest so I did this for them. They could think about a little rest when they dress the baby or child.
The font is Lieb Doni and I hope people find it appropriate. When it comes to fonts, there are so many ways to go and so many choices, it can get confusing. I colored this digitally with my Wacom Intuos Pro tablet and pen in photoshop CS6. I need to practice using brushes again…it’s been a really long time. I love using the big brushes and keeping the opacity always somewhere from 30 to 50%. I’d rather build up layers of transparent color. I love painting this way. It is very relaxing. I think all the black strokes around the hammock are making the whole image a little dark.
I would appreciate comments and critiques. That’s what I am using the blog for.
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Fun Frog with alpha-blocks
Here’s a leaping frog full of color and maybe a little nonsense. He is painted in watercolor and drawn with a crow-quill pen. I have colored and added a stylized text to match his personality.
Frogs are a subject of fun, ridicule, and story-telling. Have fun with this. You may need one in your collection.
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