Fairy Tales

Fairy tales - the theme for this week's Illustration Friday challenge.

Here are a couple of blasts from the past that might illustrate a couple of favourites.

after Goldielock's visit

 and before the sorcerer's apprentice gets to work.

Illustration Friday

I have joined an online illustration group with weekly topics. Last week it was "Flight' and this week it is "Fire". Here are my submissions:

P.S. it is good to be back

New sketch book time!

The first of the year is a great time to open a new sketch book and dedicate some time each day to the practice of art. This year I am doing something a little different. I have salvaged all those one or two unused pages at the end of my almost full sketch books and there is a pile of paper at least the equivalent of a new book. My first "book" of the year has all different sized pages and I am eager to get started but first here are a few pages from 2014.

Have a happy and creative 2015

and here are three more that I missed in the first batch

Fall classes 2014

It is that time of year again.
Give me a call or send an email if you would like to register.

Yupo!

If you have never tried painting on Yupo (a synthnetic paper), you should give it a go. The paint dries on top of the paper and is not absorbed. One of the advantages is that you can wash it off! It has a very slick surface and is fun to paint on.

 These are both 10 x 13 inches

Chicken one day, feathers the next.

Here are two successful chicken paintings. The really foul ones stay in the drawer.

More puppies

I have been working on a looser method of painting. It is fun and fast and I like the freedom it gives me with the subject. Here are 3 more of my doggy friends. Here are Bear, Elvis and Briar. All are on 10 x 14 inch sheets.