Finch-eriffic!

Aderyn y To / House Sparrow

Llinos Werdd / Greenfinch

Nico / Goldfinch

Titw Tomos Las / Blue Tit
Ok, so a Blue Tit is not a finch it's a tit, but I made it before deciding on making a 'finch print' or drawing a collection of finches! But my next bird drawing collection will be tits (lol @ tits) so I've already made a Blue tit in preparation for it! Anyway, I made these on cartridge paper using pencil and colour in Gouache. I think I prefer gouache to watercolour, it's more pigmented and colourful. I just looove colour :)

Anyway, I hope you're all having a fabulous 4-day-weekend :) xxx

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Work in Progress / Gwaith ar ei hanner

Gylfinbraff / Hawfinch

Ji Binc / Chaffinch

Coch y Berllan / Bullfinch

These are birds I've been drawing recently (more to show you soon) which I want to make into print soon, and other various things! I love drawing birds, I think birds and architecture are my favourite subjects but I just love drawing in general :)

With making a print, I wasn't sure if I should use one bird and repeat, or should I use all the birds (there are another three to add to these, making it 6 birdies [all finches] in total) into one print?



I started this drawing a while ago, and when going through old magazines came across this in the middle! Lucky that I didn't just throw the  magazine out. So I'm looking forward to finishing this and showing you again soon. Hopefully I won't leave my blogging as long as last time. I'm hoping to blog once a week or fortnight now :)

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I won Anna Jane Searle's Giveaway prize, yipee!

the packaging unfortunately didn't make it...!






I found Cauldron Snout!







The brilliant illustrator Anna Jane Searle was holding a giveaway on her blog (check her awesome blog out HERE!) which I entered amongst many others. And guess what? I was the lucky one who won!!! As you can see! 

Aren't these AMAZING!!!! I was, and still am, so happy when this arrived on Thursday! I carefully tried to open this box for ages because the wrapping was a beautiful map, but it started to rip, then some more and in the end I couldn't wait to open it so I just had to rip it open! So beautiful, and so delicate. The inside of the box is absoloutely stunning, beautiful colours and so intricate! I think my favourite is the Amethyst Crystal. But they're all brilliant :D Thank you Anna!

xxx

GREAT Cormorants!




I actually made these a couple weeks ago but only now getting round to blog posting about them, sooozzzz my bad! I was reminded to make this post cos I actually saw a Great Cormorant a couple of days ago. It was bootifuuullll! It was a juvenile though I think cos his chest was white. He was sunbathing then he went fishing in the water! It was amazing for how long it would stay underneath the water, and how far he could travel under the water.

ANYWAY that's enough on that. I'd like to draw more of these, so I'll get round to that in my new bigger square sketchbook, which I finally found! It's just a plain hardback black cartridge paper one, bout 8"x8" so i'm looking forward to filling it up with birdie wirdies!

Laters alligatorsss xxx

I need your help with business cards!

I've been staring at these for so long I don't even know if they look ok anymore! I keep looking at them thinking, is the font ok? Is the image ok or should I use a different one? Should I just keep the font all the same on the front?! Bah I'm stuck! Which is why I need your help, I need another pair of eyes :)

Which do you prefer? Any suggestions are welcome (more than welcome, it would be great!)

xxxTHANK YOU!xxx

raving ravens!





I've been drawing a lot of birds recently (more than usual!) and last week I started doing a lot of ravens (no reason in particular I just like 'em). I like making more than one drawing of a bird, because they're always different, and I like drawing them sitting, flying, close ups etc.! I've decided to start making a book/sketchbook of birds like this... so for each double page there'll be one bird, and maybe more I don't know I'll see how it goes! But I'll let you know when I've started cos I need a nice sketchbook first!

Next post I need your help about business cards for me, I've started to design some but can't decide on which design or what background!!!

Anyhoo, I hope you're all having a lovely weekend :)

xxx

Stop! Collaborate and listen. (Collaborative Project)


This is a collaboration I did with illustrator Bruce Parker (http://brucey-art.com/) over the last few weeks. This was the first collaboration I did, so it was a bit scary! I found it a bit difficult at the beginning trying to work around an illustration that is in a completely different style to mine. But once I got thinking, brainstorming, and sketching, it became easier. It was a challenge, but it was a good way to start working and thinking in different ways! I think they've turned out really well :) Now that I've done some I'd love to make some more!

If anyone else is interested in collaborating, let me know :)

xxx

sparrows and castles



 I drew this little birdie the other night. There's a sparrow nest in the roof next door, and we can see it flying from there to our garden to pick up the bird seed we put out, going back and forth to its nest every day. And she now uses the bird bath I put out, eee (a tray with water, not fancy y'know)!!!




This is the castle that I started drawing but realised I was running out of space because the castle was so long (see previous post)! So anyways, I finished it off today. I've noticed that I've kindof got two different drawing styles going on, which you can see here from the two drawings! Is this normal!? I like to exercise 'real-life' drawing, or 'looking-like-it-actually-is' drawing... I don't know what it's called! Anyway, I like to do that every now and then just for exercise so I don't get crap really.

xxx

my castles brings all the boys to the yard




I've started drawing castles... at the moment castles in Wales, so I started off with this one - Caernarfon castle. I wanted to just draw the castle without the buildings and stuff around it, to keep it simple. But I'll draw more castles (including this one) with the stuff surrounding it, and without. I want to experiment with colour with this one next, so I'll blog about it when I'm done (omg I'm blogging!!!).

This was my first attempt, but the castle was longer than I expected and the page wasn't long enough (DAMMIT!). I'll finish this one, but I'll fill in the surrounding areas too, otherwise it'll look weird just popping out of the page. So next week I'm going to draw a lot of castles hopefully (amongst other things), or the same ones over and over til it's right!

If there's anything I could do to improve it etc, I'd love to hear your thoughts :)

xxx