CATS, VALUE, AND COMPOSITION

I have been reading some great books on composition, and have been practising with paintings of my cat Harpo.

FRIENDLY PORTRAITS

A friend of a friend has is organizing an art show and told me I should submit my work. I was initially way too nervous, but eventually got around to working on it.

I wanted to make abstract portraits of a few of my friends, where their eyes and hair are really precise, and the rest is kind of a blob, because i figured you could still recognize the person from their eyes and hair.

What I ended up working on wasn't really what I had initially imagined, but I'm happy with how they turned out anyway.

I have one more I will be working on and then I will submit them!

I enjoyed making them a lot, and with the holidays coming up I was trying to add items to my Etsy shop that would make good gifts. I think "custom magical portraits" would make a nice gift!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Now that the Thanksgiving festivities are over, I am feeling inspired and energetic.
Yesterday Eric and I took a beautiful fall walk, and saw a lot of amazing pigeons (I then made him write down "PIGEON" so I would remember to draw one).

So here is a little pigeon. Their colours are really incredible. I always said if I could go back to my first year of university when we had to make a dress based on a theme, I could change my theme to PIGEONS and make something really iridescent and incredible.

DRAWING PRINCESSES

I think this piece is finally done, but I might go back to it eventually and add more detail. I am REALLY happy with the coral around the bottom edges of the illustration. Definitely my most detailed and complete piece to date.

Also, today I quickly drew this princess.

NON-BORING LANDSCAPES

Today I am VERY inspired, mostly because I purchased some incredible photoshop brushes that look like gouache and watercolour and oil paint and charcoal and pretty much everything you can imagine.

The brushes are from KYLE WEBSTER and can be found here. They were only $10 which is a steal.

I spent about an hour this morning gathering reference photos and sketching to create my best octopus piece yet. I wanted to do an underwater cliff scene with one big octopus and a bunch of spooky ghosty little octopus in the back.

It currently looks like this:

3.5 hours later...

I can't believe 3.5 hours have passed... I thought I had been working on it for maybe an hour?