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nicole,
on 9/15/2016
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the lucky one 6x6 acrylic on canvas ©the enchanted easel 2016 |
and a little throwback thursday!
adorable little Mei-Lin was created back in february to commemorate 2016's year of the monkey. holding her lucky
orange well, she was too cute not to submit into this week's
IF theme of what else...."orange".
PRINTS
HERE and other goodies featuring her sweet face
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{it's september so i can still say, "gung hay fat choy!"}
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nicole,
on 3/14/2016
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another peek into my step by step creative process....this one for the painting entitled, "the lucky one". done to commentate 2016's year of the monkey, this little cutie was lots of fun to paint.
for a look at the
album and explanation of the step by step process, take a click over to my
Facebook page and maybe give it a "like" if you already haven't...and would be so kind. :)
speaking of PRINTS, i'm in the middle of opening up a
S6 (Society 6) shop which will feature my paintings on cool products from tote bags to tapestries, clocks to (duvet) covers. i'll post the link as soon as i get around to finishing setting up shop. meanwhile, click on over to the
S6 homepage and check out some other really wonderful artists. always awesome to see hard working, talented people have their masterpieces transformed onto products we can buy for ourselves to give away as gifts.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! I hope that wherever you may be you have plenty to be thankful for.
Congratulations to Priscilla Alpaugh, for winning a signed copy of The Story I’ll Tell. Thanks to everyone who entered the drawing.
Happy Illustration Friday!
Please enjoy the wonderful illustration above by Tamara Domuzin, our Pick of the Week for last week’s topic of ANIMAL. Thanks to everyone who participated with drawings, paintings, sculptures, and more. We love seeing it all!
You can see a gallery of ALL the entries here.
And of course, you can now participate in this week’s topic:
CITY
Here’s how:
Step 1: Illustrate your interpretation of the current week’s topic (always viewable on the homepage).
Step 2: Post your image onto your blog / flickr / facebook, etc.
Step 3: Come back to Illustration Friday and submit your illustration (see big “Submit your illustration” button on the homepage).
Step 4: Your illustration will then be added to the public Gallery where it will be viewable along with everyone else’s from the IF community!
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HAPPY ILLUSTRATING!
By: Jessica Lanan,
on 11/18/2015
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Hello, dear readers! Today I have a mishmash of a post to share with you, so I hope you’ll bear with me. (Ha.)
I have been on a bit of a quest lately to loosen up my technique. If you also struggle with this, know that you are not alone. It takes an enormous amount of practice to get the “quick and effortless” look instead of the “catastrophic disaster” look, so we watercolorists often get very tight and controlled in order to compensate. Of course, there are many different ways to work with watercolor and some artists do the “controlled” thing extremely well, but if you’re looking to loosen up, here are a few techniques I’ve stolen from other artists over the years that I’ve found helpful:
- Using brushes that are much larger than I find comfortable
- Minimizing the number of washes. The entire background of this image was one big, wet wash, not twenty-seven separate washes detailing every single leaf and bush
- Using a lot more water and paint than seems reasonable; enough that I often end up having rivulets of liquid draining off the paper
- Getting to know the paint. Many colors lighten in value or lose saturation when they dry, so it needs to be even darker than you think when you paint it on
- Waiting for a wet-on-wet wash to completely dry before moving on to add details
- Varying textures. I used some dry brush technique in the trees to simulate pine needles
- Painting lots of really bad paintings that will never, ever see the light of day. I plan to burn these so that no one can accidentally find them when I die
- Working as fast as I possibly can
- Occasionally closing my eyes. (Just kidding! Or not…?)
I hope those help someone out there just as they helped me!
In other news, copies of The Story I’ll Tell are here, so I can also do that second giveaway that I promised you several weeks ago.
The post office didn't do the best job ever on this one
Fortunately, the books are unscathed!
Leave a comment below if you’d like a chance to win a signed book! I’ll announce the winner next Wednesday.
By: Hannah Paget,
on 8/3/2015
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In the late eighteenth century, against a troubled background of violent change on the continent and rising challenges to the Establishment at home, botanists were discovering strange creatures that defied the categories of ‘animal, vegetable, and mineral’.
The post Animal, vegetable or mineral? [quiz] appeared first on OUPblog.
This crazy cute little guy was submitted by Michael Robertson for the Illustration Friday topic PET.
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andrea joseph,
on 1/3/2015
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Happy New Year folks!
As I said in a previous post, I've been making some changes to my business (and life) recently. Some leaps of faith. Which all ties in nicely with the New Year and new leaf/chapter/beginning.
Here's something I've never tried before; bespoke, made to order original drawings. Not just bespoke drawings, but, bespoke pet portraits (and that's something I never thought I'd hear myself saying). They are, of course, pet portraits with a difference. They are kind of like drawings of your pet's ancestors. With a little imagined (by me) biography of said pet ancestor.
Where and how the hell do I come up with these ideas?
Anyway, you can get a bespoke, Victorian, made to order, portrait of YOUR pet
HERE!No, really.
I've been practicing my printmaking skills, and although I'm playing around with screenprints, a linocut still works best for me. Here is what my holiday card looks like this year:
I'm bringing a few to the local art sale at The Arts Center, so here is a little herd all packed up and waiting to go.
since it's still October, I'm going to stick to the black and white theme and show you a few more of my "inktober" drawings. I'm enjoying the ink wash and line practice, straight without any pencils first. Find more of these over on
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I'm also doing a lot of sketching for assignments in progress. I think the November challenge will have to be about drawing people, possibly an emphasis on grownups...
In other news; I'm preparing to put a few things in the local holiday sale, working on family Halloween projects, and continuing my personal quest for computer skills (yay
Skillshare)
By: Jessica Lanan,
on 5/11/2014
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To all the mothers out there of every species, have a wonderful day!
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Some more great work by these kids, way to go!
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Easily one of the things I love most about working with theaters is the chance to offer my interpretation of my favorite stories. I've done many of the classic public domain stories, but I love being able to have a go at more contemporary books. I love, love(!) Betsy Lewin's illustrations for Click Clack Moo, but still had a blast giving Doreen Cronin's story my own take. Here are the rough sketches for the theater poster.
Bunnicula was one of my favorite books from when I was eight. I got the opportunity to create my version for a theater poster.
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nicole,
on 8/1/2013
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nicole,
on 3/31/2013
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...because bunnies can be artists too ;)
(also my submission for this week's IF theme ~ egg)
HaPpY EaSteR!!!
Part 2 of "Sheep Lessons".
Our heroine has a nightmare
Did this project for Spider Magazine that was published a couple months ago. I enjoy working for magazines because (especially Spider) because the art direction is fairly light and I can try out different techniques. I was happy with how this series of illustrations turned out. I'll post my favorite three over the next few days.
By: Tatjana Mai-Wyss,
on 2/5/2013
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Given the prompt "wheel", my swiss soul naturally screamed "cheese".
So here you go.
And I'm sure we all appreciate a break from the bunnies.
I have more wheel/cheese ideas, so you might want to check back :)
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nicole,
on 12/20/2012
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dashing through the snow....
no horse or sleigh needed ;)
just a cute little helper named Pippa and her candy cane striped zebra friend Peppermint.
hey, he's just as good as any reindeer.
but way cuter...;)
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on 7/17/2012
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Este bichito nació de un ejercicio que estoy haciendo. Dibujé todas la letras del alfabeto y a partir de sus formas básicas ilustré personajes. Este es el primero y está basado en la letra A. Eventualmente tendré una familia completa de bichitos raros.
This creature was born from an exercise that I´m doing. I drew all the letters in the alphabet and from their basic forms illustrated characters. This one is the first and it´s based on the letter A. Eventually I´ll have a complete family of weird creatures.
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on 7/10/2012
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This is a drawing for a project I´ve been working on.
Este es un dibujo para un proyecto en el que he estado trabajando.
By: Katie Cusack,
on 7/6/2012
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very cute character!
thank you so much cindy!!!
adorable!
thank you ella! :)
Simply adorable!!! :D
Love your work xx
thank you ella!
it means a lot :)