More ATCs.

1. This is an acrylic painting of a treefrog sitting on a leaf.

2. This is an oil painting of a pelican standing up on the mooring post at the caravan park we stay at in Mallacoota. The park is right by the lake and the campers can moor thier boats right out front of thier Caravans.

3: This is a digital painting created using both Artrage and Photoshop. I found the image in the WetCanvas Image Library and thought it would be fun to try and recreate using many layers, it was definitely a challenge for both me and my computer!

Fruity ATCs in Oil.

Here are some ATCs for the WetCanvas Exchange I've painted using Oils. These have a very luxurious feel about them.

1. Kiwi Fruit:

2. Cherries:3: Passionfruit:

WetCanvas ATCs and WDEs! A world of art!

Here are some more ATCs for the Exchange at Wetcanvas.

This one is a digital painting done using Artrage.This one is an oil painting on canvas type paper.This one was drawn in response to one of the daily drawing prompts, using Artrage.
I like it alot so I decided to use it for one of these cards.

Another oil painting on canvas paper, I played around with this image for weeks and I am still not happy with it. It is Lara Croft, the Tomb Raider!
One of my all time favourite characters in game or movie form!This is another digital painting done in Artrage.
I love using this program as it is very close to painting with any other medium.
I use a stylus and tablet so its like using a brush or pen. WDEs.

This is from this weeks WetCanvas Weekend Drawing Event (WDE) I chose this image because I love the colour of the paint on her face and thought it might be cool to try to recreate that colour!I made the little girl in the image look a little older than she is is the reference.

This is a digital painting too, again done using the Artrage program.

If you've never used it, you can download a free trial version. It is really great!

This adorable image is from last weeks WDE.
I painted this one using acrylics on water colour paper. All of these are ATCs for the Wetcanvs ATC Exchange happening at the moment.

Pelicans Finished.

Finally I have finished this painting.
I'm happy with the way it came out.
Ths is Oil on board, 26" X 19".

Miniature Oil Paintings.

These are some Oil painted ATCs I created.

I love working in this medium, Its so luxurious!

The first two were painted using reference images from the WetCanvas Image Reference Library

and the Whale painting was created using a reference image I found online.

Alpaca ATC

Inspired by an image of Maree's Alpaca that she gave me yesterday to use, I couldn't help but paint the big hairy cutie straight away! This is an acrylic ATC. I am really getting into the Acrylics.

Digital Drawing for fun.

This baby Alpaca was painted using ArtRage.
I used a reference from WetCanvas Image Reference Library.
Great place to find images to use for painting!

Acrylic Rosella ATC.

Another ATC for the Exchange.

This one was painted using an reference image from the Wetcanvas Image Reference Library.

"Lookin' at you"

More Cards for the WetCanvas ATC Exchange.

I spent the long weekend playing around with acrylics.

I bought some drying retarder and I am in love!! The blendability of oils with the quick drying properties of the acrylics...so cool!

Here are some cards I created.

I had a pretty productive weekend. I also made a few Oil ATCs too and will post them when they are dry.

Elijah: Colour pencil on canvas paper.

Tropical Paradise: Acrylic on Gessoed card. Freedom: Acrylic on canvas paper.Nostalgia: Colour Pencil on card.Magnolias: Digital.Einie the Macaw: Acrylic on canvas paper.Green Rose: Acrylic on canvas paper. Self Portrait: Acrylic on Gessoed Card.

WetCanvas - ATC Project 2007.

I joined a project happening at WetCanvas in which each player has to create an ATC for each of the other 25 players. There is a 6 month time frame but here are my first five cards. I think this is going to be quite a bit of fun and gives me the opportunity to experiment with lots of different mediums and subjects!

1: "Jaffa" - Colour Pencil on Water colour paper.
" Cute Puppy" - Digital painting.

"Still life 1" - Acrylic painting on gessoed card..

"Sedona" - Coloured pencil on gessoed card.

"Buffy" - Acrylic on gessoed card.

WDE - Last one for 2006

This was drawn from one of the gorgeous photos supplied by Janet at WetCanvas. I couldn't resist this one. Its black pen and watercolour in my sketchbook. I have had a bit of an inspiration problem of late and it was just brilliant to be drawing again! Of course its a bit of an easy subject for a frog lover like me!!

Pelicans - WIP.

This is a work in progress (WIP). It is an oil painting on board, 18 x 25 inches. I used photo I took on holidays in Mallacoota where there are always plenty of pelicans to photograph. It has taken a long time to get this far as I only work on it for around 2 hrs a week. I forgot to remove the stick at the bottom before taking the picture. This is used to rest your hand on as you are painting so you don't rest your hand on where you have just painted (I must learn to use that!) Seeing the painting up here helps me to find bits and pieces that need work!!

Digital Painting - WDEs December.

"Green Tomatoes"
"Mango the mascot"
"Kennedy the cowgirl"

My workshop is such a mess that I have been avoiding getting out my painting and drawing gear. Instead I have been playing around a bit more with digital painting. These are from a few different WDEs over the past month or so.

WetCanvas WDE - 15

The images at the WetCanvas WDE this week were almost irresistible. I have been wanting to do a portrait with my prismacolors on black paper for so long and this image was perfect. It is A4 (21x29cm) size and took about 3.5 hours to complete. I didn't capture the likeness very well but for a first portrait on black I am pleased with the result.

WetCanvas WDE.

For this weeks WDE, I decided I would do some quick pen sketches and colour them with watercolours. This is what I came up with!

Altered books.

I have been spending alot of time these last few weeks doing Altered book work. Trying new techniques and ideas and having alot of fun.
Here are a few of my recent pages.

Flying Frogs.
This one is for a Round Robin I am in, the theme is "Strange things with wings". I used crackle medium in the background but I think I didn't wait long enough for it to dry. Luckily because I love the effect I got with it! Looks like a waterfall.

F=Future. This one is in a mini Altered book. It is only the size of an ATC and it is very cute! I used Gel medium transfers and rubber stamping on this one.

Alter A Book. This page is in a book I have at home I am doing for my self. It is a great place to try different ideas and techniques before I use them in other books. This is the title page and I have used more Gel medium transfers and some Gesso layed on thick to add dimention then rubbed gold over it.

Think Pink. This page is also done in my own book. I used this page as a test for gel medium transfers. Although the transfers didn't come out fantastically. They are very effective on this page I think. They are the title, the butterflies and the script writing.

Another WDE at WetCanvas.

This week I decided to have a play with my colour pencils. This is drawn on A4 (21 x 29 cm) but looking back, next time I will do an A3 (29 x 42cm). Its drawn with the derwent studios as well as the prismacolor black, white, crimson, one of the greys and the colourless blender. I have used the burnishing technique for the whole drawing.

WDE September 1st.

After looking at all the wonderful work being done over at WetCanvas this weekend, I was inspired to get out my graphite drawing pencils and experiment. I made one of the images black and white, adjusted the lighting and contrast a bit and printed it out to use as my reference. Then I used a light box to get an outline and just filled in the tones with graphite. I was pretty pleased with the outcome and will try this again sometime on something else.

Another WDE at WetCanvas.

I love having a go at the Weekly Drawing Event at wetcanvas. Here is my effort for this week. I was feeling little lazy and couldn't be bothered making a huge mess, searching for stuff, cleaning up, even getting out of my chair was asking a bit much so I used Artrage to paint this one digitally. I am just new to this medium but am loving it so far!

Another Pencil Flower.

I forgot to take my colour photo to my paint class last week so I started a color pencil drawing of these flowers to pass the time as I couldn't leave because I am the driver. I only had a black and white copy to draw from so I love the way its turned out.