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I've just discovered Corel Painter and am thoroughly enjoying everything it has to offer. This blue owl started off as a teeny marker pen doodle in my moleskine ideas book, and was scanned in and dropped into Painter where I had a sinful amount of fun painting him over, playing with their oil brushes and palette. Couldn't do it without my Wacom Bamboo pen and tablet -- I spent a whole day immersed in a non-messy oil painting experience. Can't wait to get my hands 'dirty' again. I have further plans for my Blue Owl, he will be 'graduating' soon and wearing the proper attire for it.

Here's an older drawing (Bee Happy Daisies) that I reworked in photoshop (pre-Painter discovery) and uploaded to Zazzle. I cut the bees and flowers out and played with the design in various configurations on the different products that they have to offer ... I love the customization option on Zazzle that allows for this. So it's slightly different depending on which product it's on up at the store, but this is the original illustration:

Cheers!

Blue Owl cards and matching gifts at Floating Lemons at Zazzle

Bee Happy Daisies cards and matching gifts at Floating Lemons at Zazzle

Still on the doodles, here's a little Robin I drew with marker pens, and then worked on in photoshop.

I'm still catching up on tons of back-logged work. Also trying to redesign my Floating Lemons identity and banners etc ... it's about time I think, but it's not an easy job to tackle especially as I'm feeling slightly uninspired at the moment. I'll get there eventually.

We're experiencing a 'false spring' here in Provence and the sun streaming in gets a bit distracting and I've been giving into it, taking daily walks with the dogs. It will freeze over again far too soon I know as February is pretty much the coldest month, so I'm taking advantage of the wonderful weather while I can.

I received a Today's Best Award from zazzle for the Valentine's Card with the little robin on it, which was quite lovely and made my day (12th January):

If you would like to see the rest of the Little Robin cards and matching gifts, just click this link as they're up over at Floating lemons at Zazzle. Cheers!

Took time off from my drawing to play around with one of my old marker pen doodles and turn it into a last-minute Christmas design. Cleaned it up in Photoshop and placed it in my Zazzle store and managed to get a Today's Best Award for one of the envelope designs!

Cheers!

Curly Candy Cane cards and gifts at Floating Lemons at Zazzle

I've been dabbling rather than drawing recently. One of the results being the above cake, sketched out in marker pens, to which I added little bats for Halloween. Also did a couple of other cakes at the same time and I'll clean them up and add them at a later date.

Meanwhile, I've been concentrating on updating past drawings and designs at my Zazzle store, adding them to new products such as their stationery line (letterheads, matching envelopes and address labels, I truly enjoy creating matching sets!), and on cleaning and sorting out my home, preparing it for the coming months of winter work. Getting rid of the clutter and oh my, there's a ton of that.

I've also spent the last couple of days experimenting with watercolour, with truly embarassing results. More on that in the next post as I'm trying to salvage my one attempt by whipping my watercolour pencils out. If it doesn't turn out too tragic I may share it here ... we shall see!

I did receive a Today's Best Award from Zazzle for the Orange Striped bats Cake Avery Binder design:

Cheers!

Orange Striped bats Cake cards and matching gifts at Floating Lemons at Zazzle.