A little dragon art

I've been wanting to get back to drawing and painting dragons for while now, and I have a few projects in the pipeline that require some dragon art. So here are a few practice pieces.

And here is a more recent artwork that I really love even though I can spot about 3 things wrong with it. Really pleased with how the coins came out, as last time I painted coins it did not go well. 

Watercolour Wednesday

Watercolour Wednesday

Blogmas day 1

Ok so for the next 24 (or maybe longer) days I will attempt to update this blog everyday with either Chrsitmassy stuff or regular day to day stuff. 

First off my Moo.com order arrived a day ago and for the first time ever I have actually got Christmas Cards printed! I was spurred on when they sent out a 30% off code during black Friday. So that Saturday I was frantically painting the image/idea I have had floating around in my head for a few months.

I also took advantage of the code to reorder some more business cards and to also include a new image, the blue treasure dragon. Stickers!!! love stickers, this time the little book of stickers is just full of the treasure dragon images, because why not.

This is the image: 

and here are the cards:

Love 'em! Also don't know why my camera decided to make all these images really blue :( think it might be this time of year and the lack of sunlight. 

Fimo Friday

A few new dragons in the shop and one custom dragon for a family friend.

Travel Watercolours

I like going out with my best friend and attempting to paint on location (it never works but I still like to try). So this is a condensed version of my watercolours that fit into my handbag:

13 x 21cm Watercolour Moleskine book

Winsor and Newton artist half pans in a Altoids mint tin

A tube of white gouache, Daler Rowney

My favourite sizes of Serise 7 watercolour brushes; 0,1 and 3

2 Waterbrushes 

A new addition to the collection is a tiny Chinese travel brush

A collapsible waterpot

Water bottle or spray botttle

Some Kitchen roll for mistakes and drying the palettes before going back in the bag

1 or 2 tiny paint palettes

A sponge for some texture

Then pencil, sharpener and rubber for the drawing part of painting.

Watercolour Wednesday

I've got a little project going on, something I've been wanting to do for a few years, I've wanted to challenge myself to recreate the same image but in different media, to see how different a picture can look when its made with different paint. Often when I start a picture in one media I get halfway through and think "This would be much easier or look better in " 

So this is watercolours, Winsor and Newton, I started off with my favourite as its something I have the most experience with and I have a lot of the paints so no mixing lol.  I'm planning to recreate this image with: 2 more brands of Watercolours, Acrylics, Oils, Graphite, Biro, Ink and colouring pencils.

Though I don't know what one I will do next. My instagram has slighty more frequent posts and possibly some behind the scenes pics. 

Fimo Friday

Nice little photo dump there. I wanted to get myself up to date on here with what I have been making this year. Some are avaliable in the shop, others have already sold and some like the snake and Poké Ball earrings are things I made for me. 

ScrawlrBox February

I got my first subscription box! yay! and its an art one with art things in. I have always wanted a subscription box but couldn't really justify Lootcrates price and after seeing a few crate openings there would be a few things that I have no interest in. So when I found out that there are art supply boxes there was very little hesitation lol. Scrawlrbox is a Uk box so no pricey postage and it fits through the letter box so no waiting for the post man.

This is February's box, so hopefully by now there wont be any spoilers for anyone waiting for theirs. I was super happy when I opened the box and saw acrylics. I like painting with acrylics but I don't do it often enough.

Wasn't sure at first what I could paint with the given colours, I initially thought about a tiger but tigers have a lot white on their faces and would probably be too much of a challenge. 

So I went with a lion, bit more yellow then my reference photo but I was trying to stick to the colours I was give as part of the Scrawlrbox challenge. 

Some more acrylic brushes to add my collection as you can never have too many. 

Loved the mechanical pencil, need to buy myself some more refills as I can see me using it a lot more. I didn't actually use the Acrylic marker for this painting, its a chisel tip so too big for my painting. 

Definitely going to keep the subscription going for another month, can't wait till March's Box arrives.

Sculpey Swans

I really loved my original swan that I made last year and it was on my to do list to make a pair. After making my pheasant I got started on these guys, the male has the brighter beak. 

In other news the oven has broken so at the moment so I cannot make any polymer clay pieces :( so there won't be any clay updates for a while. 

Oh and before I forget Paint palette earrings have been restocked and have a new design! Have a look here (these were made just before the oven broke)

Dragonsdust Dragons

Been kind of rubbish at updating this blog recently, so here is a summary of some new things I have been working on:

Started a new series of dragons, These are Dragon's dust dragons because of the little vials of dragons dust held in their tails.

The red one is Love and she is available here

The green one is Lucky and he already has a home.

I am working on another one at the moment, just waiting for his varnish to finish drying.

I have also been working with Super
Sculpey and Acrylic Paint, making these little duck figurines. The reason I am making little duck figurines is practice for some wedding cake toppers for my best friend's wedding.

Mute Swan.

Then I redid the ducks to have a more realistic head and neck shape.

Commission

This is what I have been working on in the last week, A watercolour commission of my friend's dog Oscar.  A4 hot pressed Arches watercolour paper and Winsor and Newton artists watercolour paints and some white Gouache. I also realised that its been many months since I have done any painting, maybe I should make it my new years resolution to paint more, maybe a little painting each day like Inktober.















And I've been playing with fimo again, following this tutorial for Faux leather tags. So my Christmas presents this year are going to have these tags.

Watercolour Wednesday

This is a commission that has been on the drawing board for a few months now and I finished it last week. I am really pleased with it and enjoyed working on it.

A4 on Arches watercolour paper, mostly watercolour with white gouache for highlights.

Golden Retriever commission

February wasn't a very productive month for me, mainly because I was working on this commission.

It took longer then I would have liked due to rubbish watercolour paper and my need to be a perfectionist.

Watercolours with a touch of gouache, painted on Arches HP watercolour paper, about A4 in size. I am really pleased with how he looks and I really love the eye.

Watercolour Wednesday

Another butterfly; Small Tortoiseshell. I have no idea what happened to the background, I think the wash must of reacted with the lifting preparation, it made an interesting effect anyway.