IF :: the ashes are safely home

for Illustration Friday's topic "pheonix"

This drawing/painting/cartoon is an attempt to restart my artistic endeavours... ofter an busy and distraction period... i'm determined to get back to the 50 paintings, one drawn it day discipline

The illustration friday topic seems like a perfect way to start

But most this illustration is mostly about cricket,... one of the distractions... and the great battle (much closer than the score line might suggest) for a largely symbolic urn containing some ashes... I don't like like cricket? oh no, I love it...

the fall of linda's hair

Painting 10 looking at how light falls on linda long blonde hair

Watercolour on paper with some extra work using aqulla pencils

so torso

Painting 9 returning to a favourite subject... I'm experimenting with the washes to get maximum "movement" (flexing) into Love Love's wonderful wave inspired pose

watercolour on paper

on the jungle track

on the jungle track
Originally uploaded by sigh clone.

I'm up to painting 8 .... and well to the honest this is a pastel sketch not a painting.... but i am working on it like a painting.... sudeenly pastels are making sense to me amd I'm enjoying bringing out the tones (in much the same way as i build up watercolour washes.... but using a midtone colured paper I can move to darks (the shadows) and lights at the same time.... and pastels are pure colour

I started this a couple of days ago and have just added a few more "highlights".... it is so big it wont fit on my scanner so the full image here is a photo and you can see it larger on flickr (just click on it)... the images below are highlights that could be scanned at once.

the ballad of nigel kelly

Painting 7: Watercolour on paper also for illustration friday topic : mask

Nigel kelly... decided to become a streaker at the cricket and instantly became more popular than his great uncle ned.

pais tropical two

painting 6: waterciolour pencils (aquella)on paper

pais tropical

Paining 5: neocolour crayon on card

unfinished torso on yellow

(painting) 4: ... well i know it is a pastel and not a watercolour, but it is the only art i got a chance to do on monday

santa baby

Painting 3: I know this sketch is a bit late for the december calendar girl but I did promise lotta (santa's very favourite helper) I would do it... so here it is... hope santa brings everyone the gifts they desire

still burning

painting 2 - the beds are burning, and the bushfire continue

neocolour crayon & aquella pencil on paper



postscript peter garrett the leader of midnight oil has just been announced are the shadow minister for climate change... yes that is a real position in the australian labor party

haze over baghdad

this is the beginning of a small challenge 50days of painting and posting watercolours one a day for 50 consecutive days.

i am not a mug!

men and apples

men and apples
Originally uploaded by ***passiflora***.

It would appear that we... men that is... will never learn... a woman with an apple and we are swept away... no seriously I loved this photo by a flickr friend, i just had to sketch it.... as i was sketching i just new the apple would have to be coloured... RED of course.... what a temptation but have i been sensitive enough with the pencil?

the mural painter

mixing the media

I have had a lot of contradictory advice... all well meaning i think...
slow down (take time to feel the sensitivity)... work with your
emotions, go with the flow, work faster... don't be restrained
with your colours... use less red...try different and new media before
you get stuck in your ways.... maybe they are all the same advice in
disguise... practise more but only show us your best stuff!

Exciting Eh!

Looking for more sensitivity with my pencil

This was an exerise in trying to show a little more sensitivity with my pencil.... I actually had to think about it for some time... the changed from my abrupted and fast pace attempting to develope the shape and shade, wih heck tick strokes and much finger rubbing to spread the tone... to a more calm and controlled building of tome upon tone with the pencil itself... have I found sensitivity?

More importantly will linda recognise they are both of her?

lots of clones on flickr

There are way more clown... sorry make that clones, on flickr... than sighs

how do I know this I put them to a tag fight, one of several great tools created by netomer

more about art on technology

I realise I love my ipod even more now... so many slow hours wasted waiting in hospital, where at least made bearable... but I was using the ipod so much i started to have to charge it each day... normally it lasts a few days... and that meant i had to give and let itunes update itself... (a big risk when you can not see so well)... appart from the fact that it "lost" half my mp3 collection (don't panic it is still there... the new itunes just refuses to see it and I have lost patience trying to figure out why) I was very impressed to see that not only have they added album art, they have a great alternate view of your play list call cover view


We need to congratulate folk when we see art on technology... well done apple

Thanks

Happy flower
Originally uploaded by sigh clone.

I'm on the road to recovery... thanks folks for all the kind thoughts in Flickr & Yahoo

a bit of a buggar

i made this buddy icon for last.fm last week... and it has been very prophectic.. I had a bit of an accident and now find it hard to do anything... especially see the bloody mouse pointer even... so I might not be on-line much for a little while... and don't worry i'll be fine... but thank god i can still use my ipod