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What is the motive behind the Cheshire cat's smile?
No one may ever know.
I sketched this out two nights ago and last night I duplicated it a few times and added various color combinations. I originally tried to stay away from the purple and pink coloring for I did not want my design to resemble a certain other famous cartoon cat but it went really well with the two other color schemes I chose so I kept it. The best color schemes turned out to be greens, blues and purples. I have to say I had fun drawing this guy. As usual my work seems to be evolving again. I now lean toward pen and ink and while I don't normally use colored pencils I dusted them off for this one. Tonight I plan on adding color to "Unity" or at least I hope to. I am not so sure if that design will lend itself to color, we will have to see. Unity is however now on Greeting Card Universe in a full range of the Pagan holidays
Right now I think I might take an example from my cat and take a nap. I haven't slept well in the past few days (or ever) because of the ideas swimming around in my head, along with daily life issues. Zazzle seems to be moving very slowly today and things are not showing up correctly via outside links.
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I honestly do not know where the creativity is coming from lately but I am not complaining one bit. I am going to grab hold and run with it as far as I can because you never know when it will dry up and for how long.
Last night, or should I say early this morning, I was working on an idea of drawing and painting nursery rhymes, particularly the Hey Diddle Diddle one. I began to draw the cow jumping over the moon but, well I kind of got lost somewhere and this happened:
Quite honestly, the pen seemed to have control here. I didn't even sketch it out fully in pencil which is very rare. I thought about adding color with colored pencils last night but decided to put that on hold until I was able to scan in the black and white version for fear of overworking the drawing.
Early this morning I put this design up on Zazzle then ran out to do some errands. To my surprise I was blessed with another TBA, the second in three days and I am very honored.
Tonight I may take a drawing/painting break and just relax with some tv, well maybe, the sketchbook is calling but I really need to get some sleep tonight.
To find Unity on Zazzle
Click HereThis design will be coming to Greeting Card Universe soon .
Goodness where to start. This past week was very busy around here. I am in the process of taking on the tremendous task of sorting out a very haphazard Zazzle store. It seems that I have grown so much in the past year that everything got a bit out of control and some designs were being buried. Right now things are pretty much in place but the old catagories are still there until I can update the links from my main website. I hope to achieve this this week.
In between I uploaded a few new designs.
I drew this a few months ago and did the ink work then. It wasn't til this past week that I found it buried in a watercolor pad so I finished it off
The second one is an old design painted on wood,
Holiday Wreath
And the last which won a Today's Best for July 4th is Cuddle Kitties. This design was on Cafepress first but I as I was cleaning up my store I noticed some things got overlooked. So Cuddle Kitties is now on Zazzle
In the next coming days I will be updating my main website and removing old Zazzle links. I also have a few designs in the wings including a particular moon jumping cow.
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Well anyone that knows me knows that Samhain and Autumn is my favorite time of the year. I love the colors, the smells and the weather in the Northeast USA. There is simply nothing like it. Samhain is always on my mind, in fact my kitchen is forever decorated in pumpkins, black cats and skeletons even for the other Solstice holidays. Well it is not unusual to see a Samhain/Halloween design come out in the middle of the summer for me (even though summer consists of rain almost everyday here)
I did this design in two versions. The first is done with tiny little dots like my Dual Personality design. The second is in color as you see above and below. This design just kind of popped right out of my head with no thought, the pencil just took hold and took over. This doesn't happen often but I like when it does. I haven't used my watercolors in a while so it was nice to pick up a brush again. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it come to life.
Click to see all of By The Light Of The Moon items
Black and White Version - Color Version
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My new design for Zazzle.
Sometimes I can be on a roll, alright truth is I don't sleep and last night was one of them. I decided for a while I wanted to draw a dual Sun and Moon but the last couple of tries, well weren't great. I am not sure what possesed me to sit there and draw thousands of dots but I did. The picture itself is around 10 inches square so you can just imagine how long it took for all of those dots to fill in just the face alone. In all honesty it was relaxing in a strange irritating way, the only downfall is the slight stiffness that is now in my hand from holding the pen.
Close up detail of work
I started off with a circle and drew in the face. I originally was just going to do a fancy moon but it involved into what you see above. Then came the dots using Sakura pigment markers in .005, .01 and .03 widths. I started off with the thinest marker and did all of the shading and line work then I went in with the larger markers and accented the lines to make them stand out a little more and filled in the heavier areas with the bigger dots too. Once the dots were finished it was scanned into the computer, one copy was inverted to be black with white dots for the day and night motif.
I do have another idea using this technique but it is still in the thinking stage. I am not eactly sure when that will spill out so stay tuned...
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It is always a nice surprise when Zazzle picks you for a Today's Best Award and this morning's little doodle won the honor. This skeleton key has been bouncing around in my head for a while and it finally decided to come out. It is a quick little doodle I made in my sketchbook this morning with a graphite pencil.
The background is one of my designs that is for sale on Say It With Color. I opened it up in Photoshop and then made a grey scale version and a sepia toned one for a more vintage look. The key itself was scaned in and one version was sepia toned as well. So far it has been well received and perhaps I shall think of a few more to sketch. You never know what the cat will drag in around here and what will pop out of my head at any given time.
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