Tag: color illustration
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Ice cream!!!
The kids and their cousins got together for the summer for a week and their faces were too much to ignore. There isn’t much better than ice cream in the summer. 🍦
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Spiderman
I recently did a portrait of one of my daughter’s favorite fictional characters (see Robyn) and it was on my list to do one for my son. Spiderman was an obvious choice but close runners-up would have been any of the Avengers or a Transformer (Rescue Bots to be precise). Like with the Robyn illustration,…
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Vivi’s Nikes 2021
I haven’t drawn the kids’ shoes before but was recently inspired by another artist to do it. Here is my daughter’s current most-worn pair of sneakers. I used Derwent Inktense watercolors, pencil, and a Uniball Eye pen for this one.
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Morning colors
I love my mornings and often the morning (and late evening) is the best weather-wise here in Scotland. Here is a little watercolor I did that was inspired by the morning sky. I used pencil, Derwent Inktense watercolors, and a Uniball Eye pen on this painting. Here is a photo I snapped on the walk…
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Robyn
My daughter and son rewatched Wolfwalkers this past week (our favorite film of 2020) and I thought it would be cool to draw the main protagonist Robyn. I also wanted an excuse to play with the Lyra Groove Triple crayons again. They are water-soluble and have a really rich pastel-like character. The texture turns out…
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Back garden under construction
This is a view of our back garden as of a few weeks ago. Those trees you see are now in the ground, but things are still very much under construction. I hadn’t yet drawn the church by our house, so I liked the challenge of that as well as all the layers in this…
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Brain power
This was a design I was thinking about for a few days while I was writing this little bit on talent and what that means to me. It was done using my kids Lyra Groove Triple crayons which are water soluble and have a really rich pastel-like character. Nice to work with some media that…
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Energy (figure #70)
The trampoline is good for a few things, namely getting energy out of the kids and getting some funny pics along the way. I was going to do this with all brush pens, which I still will, but ended up using my fine pen instead.