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A digital painting from a photograph by the friend who made the cupcake ... Thank You Michelle! It looked too delicious to resist, and as I couldn't pop one into my mouth as I wished, I drew it instead.

Felt like playing with Corel Painter 12, so I used the oil paint brush and picked the colours from the actual photograph to do this piece. I'm wondering though if perhaps the icing could with a bit of extra whitening, what do you think?

I love anything with sugar icing, doesn't it look just too delicious? I've been promised some cupcakes when she visits this summer and can't wait. Perhaps I'll do more cupcake drawings then, in a variety of mediums. From photographs. Once I've gobbled them down. Cheers!

The Red Owl is in fact my Blue Owl from last year, transformed into a vibrant creature dressed in reds ... though still retaining that slightly bored, slightly grumpy expression I've become quite fond of.

I'd originally planned on just adjusting hues and saturations in Photoshop and leaving it at that, but of course I wasn't quite satisfied with the result, so I ended up dragging it into Corel Painter 12 and doing a huge repainting job with their oil brushes. Glad I did, as I quite like the end result. Took it back into photoshop to fiddle a bit more and add the drop shadow, and here you have it.

I then drew and added the graduation cap, as it just seemed right. The final result is a bright creature, extremely intellectual (as owls are), and slightly cynical (with dollops of humour). But happy. Honest.

If you'd like to peek at the original Blue Owl, it's over at: http://www.floatinglemons.com/2011/02/blue-owl-bee-happy-daisies.html. Cheers!

RED OWL cards and matching gifts are over at:

Red Owl at FLoating Lemons Illustration @ Zazzle, and

RED OWL GRAD graduation cards, invitations and matching goodies is up at:  

Red Owl Grad at Floating Lemons Events @ Zazzle

A little image that came to me while I was watching TV a few evenings ago (I was watching a particularly gory episode of a forensic series, so have absolutely no idea of why cute owls came to mind). I grabbed my little wacom and laptop and scribbled it straight into Corel Painter 12 and had fun with it the rest of the evening.

Once I was done I googled 'owl love' just to make sure that the inspiration hadn't come straight from somebody else's illustration that had stuck in a corner of my visual brain. It's something that happens far too often, so I always have to ensure that I'm not inadvertently 'copying' some else's work that I previously admired. Particularly so in this instance as owls seem to be multiplying in flight on the virtual airwaves; apparently they are a huge trend at the moment.

Once I was as sure as one can be that I wasn't plagiarising, I cleaned it up and uploaded it to my stores. It's a quick little digital sketch, I know, but I'm now quite fond of it. Cuteness seems ingrained in some part of my psyche whether I wish it to be or not.

Cheers!

If you're interested in taking a peek, I'm uploading it at the moment to:

Owl Love at Floating Lemons Illlustration

I've been doing a bit of doodling. Not quite sure where this came from, but I liked it enough to transfer it into Corel Painter and paint over the original colored pencil drawing. Still needs a bit of a clean-up but I'll do that once I'm done with the queue of Christmas and New Year designs I have to finish up or redo! Cheers.

A little doodle of a sweet pair of doves, one pale blue and the other light pink, cuddled in an embrace shaped like a heart. It started out as a pencil sketch in my moleskine that I scanned and then digitally painted in Corel Painter, then played around with in Photoshop to create a pair of separate blue and pink hearts as well:

I've used them to design cards and matching gifts for ...

Weddings: Two Doves One Heart Wedding at Floating Lemons Events;

Baby Showers for twins: Twin Doves Heart at Floating Lemons Events;

and Valentine's Day: (coming soon!)

Cheers!