Sunday, April 29, 2012

Original fine art monotype print with chalk pastel Raincloud - $300.00

Original fine art monotype print with chalk pastel Raincloud



This monotype art print is about living on the west coast, where you're confronted by the rain often, so....rain, rain, here to stay, I think I'll see you another day...



This image is a one-of-a-kind hand pulled print onto archival Rives BFK paper. This is NOT a reproduction. This is considered a reductive monotype in ...

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Friday, April 27, 2012

Cute and sassy woman in a red dress 2 1/4 Inch Pocket Mirror That Look - $5.00

Cute and sassy woman in a red dress 2 1/4 Inch Pocket Mirror That Look



Do you have a cute and sassy girlfriend? Give her this unique pocket mirror so she can have it handy to apply that perfect shade of lipstick.



Consider it portable art! You can collect all twelve pocket mirrors with my artwork dedicated to making sure you always look fantastic.



This image is from my or...

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Illustration Friday: Jump

Here's my submission for this week's Illustration Friday: Jump.
I still trying my hand at working with Photoshop and this time I tried some watercolor functions which seemed to work a bit better for me than airbrush or paint functions. You can see I didn't get a chance to finish the puppy. Maybe I'll give this another try.  Any thoughts?


Sunday, April 22, 2012

Whimsical cat art/ original pen and ink drawing mean kitty Practicing the attack - $50.00

Whimsical cat art/ original pen and ink drawing mean kitty Practicing the attack



This original ink drawing is from the \'zine I did for the Pikapackage put out by Pikaland. The project was so much fun for me to do and I\'m really happy with how the \'zine turned out.



The drawings are about the true story of a cat we used to have named Abraham. This cat would get into all sorts ...

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Friday, April 20, 2012

Carded! 2012



Guess what? I've had my "Totem Jim" drypoint and watercolor accepted into this years CARDED! show. This year's show will be at the Gallery Gachet in Gastown on April 21, 8pm-11pm. I won't be able to make it for the actual trading but maybe you could? Trade me away!


Thursday, April 12, 2012

Taking myself to school.... Photoshop that is

 I've been pretty proud of myself lately for finally submitting to the Illustration Friday weekly topics. I had put it off for so long because I didn't think a week was going to be long enough to come up with an idea and execute a finished piece. I finally convinced myself that each  piece didn't have to be publish worthy and that I could even just submit a sketch. After I eased up the pressure I've been able to create some images faster than I thought I could. You can find my Illustration Friday collection started on my Flickr here.

Besides actually just attempting the weekly topics, I've been trying to keep my submissions as digital pieces so that I can finally learn Photoshop. I'm a bit too old to have learned the program in school so everything I know on it is self taught with the help of a few online tutorials. I really want to paint in watercolor and oils digitally but the program is really too huge for me to have figured out how to do that. It's been pretty frustrating and for last weeks topic: vocal, I decided to try the image in digital watercolor and in traditional watercolor to see how each one translates. What do you think? What are the differences? Which one looks more fresh?




I'm going to keep trying to figure digital painting out with the help of Lynda.com courses but so far it still doesn't give the same level of satisfaction that a brush to paper does.

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Farm animal art chicken Original whimsical hand pulled monotype print - $275.00

Farm animal art chicken Original whimsical hand pulled monotype print



What a suspicious little chicken you are!

Is the fox near the hen house? Keep your eyes open little plucky.



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Sunday, April 1, 2012

Illustration Friday: Return

Return to sender



Trace monotype for return

The top image is my submission for the week's Illustration Friday topic: return. The second image is the trace monotype I did that took me all of five minutes to do. The digital illustration took way longer and I was much more hesitant with it. Can you tell? I don't know if it was because I was dealing with layers and colors or what but I think I might like the monotype better. What do you think?