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1. illustration friday~whimsical

moonlight mavens
11x14 acrylic on canvas
©the enchanted easel 2014
truly this week's IF theme was created just for me....and little maggie. ;) two little insomniac BFFs painting themselves a whimsical night sky. ' cause while the rest of the world sleeps, we paint. :)

{throwing back to last july 2014 for this one...my website's home page image and the *face* of the enchanted easel. a bit more about this painting here....}


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2. Coming Soon … The Day the Crayons Came Home, by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers

The countdown is on for the release of The Day the Crayons Came Home (on sale August 18th 2015), the sequel to the New York Times best selling kids book The Day the Crayons Quit, written by Drew Daywalt and illustrated by Oliver Jeffers.

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3. moonlight mavens...

moonlight mavens
©the enchanted easel 2014
the new *face* of the enchanted easel!

and...wait for it, wait for it....the new website is done too! I'm a girl on a mission! :)

so, now the back story for this painting (because isn't there always one.)...
well, i knew i wanted something different...something to represent the new style i seem to have evolved into with the start of 2014. i also knew i didn't want an easel in the image, knowing of course that this would be the new front page of the website. 

so...i had to include my stuffed elephant, maggie into the design because she is my partner is creative crime, after all. couple that with the fact that i am an insomniac and do my best work after midnight (don't all of us artists?!) and the fact that i'm obsessed with chris martin and the coldplay song "yellow" ("look at the stars, look how they shine for you....i drew a line, i drew a line for you and all the things you do, and it was all yellow") well, there it is. 

a little coldplay, a little insomnia, a little nicole and a little maggie, of course...and so "moonlight mavens" was born. from my head to the sketchbook to the finished painting.

©the enchanted easel 2014

and because this song was such an inspiration to me....
it just doesn't get any better than this...or him.

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4. a peek at some teamwork...

a peek at "moonlight mavens"
©the enchanted easel 2014
just a glimpse at the new *face* of the enchanted easel.  this business is my proverbial *baby*. I've built it all by myself and have done most of the legwork after not one, not two, but THREE cervical spine surgeries in the last four years. 'cause that's just how i roll. ;)

I've had the painting done for over a week but i'm doing my best to re-build a new website hosted by squarespace...which, by the way, i HIGHLY recommend. i didn't think such wonderful and cooperative corporations existed anymore. they are fantastic. it's just a matter of getting acquainted with the new site and how it works as well as adding watermarks and shrinking images for the web....mundane stuff like that. let's just say, i would rather be painting. but then again, what else is new?!

hoping to be done by the end of this coming week. if not sooner....*fingers crossed on that one* ;)

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5. don't we all paint the sky with stars when we can't sleep?!

"moonlight mavens"
©the enchanted easel 2014

well, my little elephant, maggie and i surely do. ;)

"monnlight mavens", the new *face* of the enchanted easel. painting finished, scanned and ready to post.

next up? website re-do. (teeth grinding just typing that...)

{p.s. and btw, maggie is really real. sleep with her every single night.....for the last 14 years. :)}

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6. Pickled Heart

I pickled my heart back in '82. I've been searching for the jar this week, but it hasn't turned up yet. It should be well marinated by now.
Pen and ink with soluble crayon. A4 size. Click to enlarge.

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7. Stuffed

A stuffed kingfisher that came into my possession.
Pencil and red crayon 35mm x 142mm. Click to enlarge.

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8. King no.43

King no.43 in action.
Pen and ink with watercolour, gouache, water-soluble crayon and digital colour. A3 size. Click to enlarge.

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9. 8 Monkeys


Going through some old work I found this lively preparatory sketch for a page of monkeys. It was for an early years counting book published by Dorling Kindersley.
Pencil and crayon 18.5cm x 18.5cm. Click to enlarge.

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10. Egg

The fried egg planet.
Mixed media 22cm x 27cm. Click to enlarge.

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11. Dick and Wend

I had a wild evening round at Dick and Wend's.
Crayon on tinted paper 21.5cm x 32cm. Click to enlarge.

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12. Fabriano Family

A family of my acquaintance: father son and daughter. Water soluble crayon on brown Fabriano laid paper.

21cm x 32cm. Click to enlarge.

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13. Pastel of bloke

A pastel drawing found during the clearout.
Pastel on Ingres paper A3 size. Click to enlarge.

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14. Banjo pig 27


My lovely wife and I went to the Macaroni Grill for dinner last night. Any restaurant with crayons and paper on the table is a good one in my book. This piece is purple crayon on craft paper. Shelly, our waitress, ripped it off to hang in their prestigious back room gallery.

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15. Sandra Schmidt

Sandra Schmidt, chained with a pencil.
Pencil with watercolour A4 size. Click to enlarge.

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16. Chair

Brown velvet armchair. Cut out and stuck on another page. Glue showing through . Slightly foxed on bottom edge, with a few dabs of watercolour.
Pencil 9cm x 10cm. Click to enlarge.

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17. Cow gum

An old drawing that was stuck down with Cow Gum. The adhesive discoloured the paper in quite a nice way. This is somewhere in England, but I can't remember the exact location.
Pencil and coloured pencils. A4 size. Click to enlarge.

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18. G-Doubt

Lately, I've been experiencing episodes of G-Doubt.
Ink, pencil and collage. A4 size. Click to enlarge.

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19. Mei Matsuoka

meimatsuoka

 

Mei Matsuoka is a Japanese-English illustrator with some really charming work. She mixes media like a champ and the work is totally playful and innocent. See more at her portfolio.

(Found via Sarah McIntyre, thanks Sarah!)


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20. Three Days of Smith


I went through a Richard Smith phase for about three days.
Coloured pencil on paper 26cm x 19cm. Click to enlarge.

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21. The Fish Bike

The Fishbike drawn to order for the Fish-on-a-Bicycle group. More pezcyclados here.
Water-soluble crayon, gouache, ink 14cm x 14cm. Click to enlarge.

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22. Asleep

An Italian girl asleep.
Pencil 20cm x 15cm. Click to enlarge.

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23. Logroño




I sipped my coffee at the bar, knee deep in discarded sugar packets which the locals carelessly drop on the floor. I saved mine in the sketchbook. With caffeine jetting through my bloodstream I set off into the town to draw the beautiful cathedral and the old geezers killing time in El Espolón.
Pen and wash, water-soluble crayon. Each page 21cm x 15.5cm. Click pics to enlarge.

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24. "Wise"

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25. HP

Been jamming tonight to "Hair Pie, Bake 2". For more HP sauce see this.
3 sketchbook pages, brushpen with soluble crayon. Each 15cm x 11cm. Click to enlarge.

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