I may have hinted at my love of houseflies before, in fact - I used to have a necklace with one held in resin (which everyone else told me was gross), which I sadly lost years ago, poor little guy. I only hope whoever found it appreciated it and didn’t toss it out in horror.
Here’s another little painting I did on Ampersand Aquabord, with colored pencil, watercolor, acrylic ink, sumi and micron pen, 5×7″.
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Here’s a current project: a drawing around 18×24″ in pencil and ink. I’m at a wall, wondering whether or not to incorporate color, some fabric flower collage, or something I haven’t yet thought of. The drawing was a struggle: even though there isn’t much information there, I must have drawn and erased the face at least six times! I think I’ll set this away where I can’t look at it for a few days, and come back with new eyes to see what I’m missing now, but thought I’d post these – if you have any feedback, I’d love to hear it – I certainly need it!
Little drawing, 5×7″. One of eight so far.
A while back I received a box from Hawaii containing seven beautiful little pewter frames, and a request for some custom artwork to fill them, with full creative freedom. Yay!! The frames have been laying around the studio, waiting to be used, and just this week I got around to creating work for five of them:
And here they are in their wonderful frames:
I do custom artwork on occasion, but this project has been loads of fun because of the freedom I was given in choosing the subject matter. This quaint little lady is someone’s gangster granny:
This girl and her chameleon are going to elope one day: they’re so happy together!
And this little princess is super stubborn: arms and legs crossed. She’s surrounded with juniper berries, because she loves the smell of gin.
This is a great exercise for coming up with things to draw: have a frame empty and waiting, preferably and old and interesting one, and draw up the first idea you have, and fill it. It’s very fun, and very fulfilling. Give it a try! Oh, and thank you, thank you, Anne.
