Illustration Friday - Clumsy

'Clumsy' watercolour

A little watercolour and pencil piece this week for the IF theme, Clumsy! Click to enlarge.

Art Hearts for Haiti

oil pastels

oil pastels and indian ink

oil pastels and indian ink

Here are some little ATCs I've made this week for the Art Hearts for Haiti project. Laure over at Painted Thoughts has initiated this project for artists to help those in Haiti - click the link to read all about it. Anyone is welcome to join in and make a small heart card, ATC size 2.5 x 3.5 inches and email it to Laure. The deadline is 29th Feb, so there's still time to participate!

Illustration Friday - Wilderness

Wilderness - mixed water media

This week for IF I've painted a landscape - something I rarely do!! My version of this week's theme of Wildnerness is painted mostly with watercolour and ink, with some coloured pencil and a touch of gouache detail . See more wildnernesses here !

Illustration Friday - Confined

'Confined' is this week's Illustration Friday theme. My offering is a net full of fishies - hope they escape - there are a few holes! Acrylic and oil pastel on mountboard.

Reverse of my page for Lisa's book

Having posted Lisa's picture yesterday and put it together with the others in her book I felt the back of the page needed a little something to complete it - especially as it is the last in the book. So, I got cracking today with this postcard. I decided to use a watercolour painting of two cherries I had done some time back and cut these out to place over collaged papers (you may recognise my current favourite - a swirly white paper which seems to be popping up in lots of my pieces recently!). Thus 'Tumbling Cherries' was born! Although the colours are true, the scan does seem to have made the image look a bit flat - it just isn't doing the textures justice - pity :( !

Another page for a travelling art book

Here's a page for Lisa's book - the last in her travelling book before it flies back to her! Knowing that Lisa is a nature lover I decided on a wild flower/plants theme and made this page with a lino cut printed onto some lovely delicate, lacy/spiderweb-like paper which I applied to coloured Japanese papers. I have to say I struggled a bit with the cutting of this design - lots of curves and zigzags here - and slipped with the tool to decapitate a poor little snail in the process :( Hence the addition of an origami butterfly to fill the gap left by my carelessness! Hope you like the print Lisa!

Illustration Friday - Renewal

Happy New Year to you all! Here's my offering for this week's Illustration Friday. The theme is Renewal. It's probably quite appropriate as I'm sure many of us will be thinking about getting into shape again after the holiday season's indulgences! I thought a little spa and yoga therapy to renew the body and mind would be a good place to start! This year I WILL lose weight - there, I've made it public, so it has to be done!