52-Week Illustration Challenge Weeks 40 to 43

Week 40: Rope

Week 41: Bookshop

Week 42: Door

Week 43: Friend

52-Week Illustration Challenge: Week 29

Week 29: Swing 
This week I wanted to focus on doing a more 'illustrative' type of picture. The illustration is a girl swinging off a rope into water.

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52-Week Illustration Challenge: Week 27

Week 27: Bush Countryside
There were a lot of ideas swirling around in my head for this theme. The distant hills, the mid-ground of farmland with its lone paddock tree and leaning on fences made out of wood from local trees are very strong images for me. We may have farmed sheep but a lone cow seemed right for this illustration.

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52-Week Illustration Challenge: Week 25

Week 25: Past

This week I had firm idea that I wanted to paint a pair of dinosaurs and when I sat to sketch the idea was already fully formed in my mind.

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Dinosaur Illustration Ready to Paint

Ready to begin painting the PAST theme illustration on a quiet Saturday night at home alone. With Guardians of the Galaxy 2 playing in the background - cranked up the sound a little bit.

To see complete illustration see here.

52-Week Illustration Challenge: Week 21

Week 21: Red
All around Canberra during autumn most to the colours in the landscape are from the autumn leaves falling. Discovering a flowering eucalypt tree and it's red flowers made a wonderful change. 

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52-Week Illustration Challenge: Week 19

Week 19: Music
The Music Fairy played her lute, she took the notes and placed them on the score.

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52-Week Illustration Challenge: Week 14

Week 14: Surprise

What big ears you have Granny! What a surprise it must have been for Little Red Riding Hood to find The Big Bad Wolf in Granny's bed.

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If you are wondering what happened to Week 11-13 they are still on the way. You see progress pictures for Week 11 at the above link.

52-Week Illustration Challenge: Week 10

Week 10: Weekend

Last week I illustrated a retro housewife with a baked cake. This week the theme continues with a children's birthday party that are generally held on the weekend, this one includes the game Pin the Tail on the Donkey. 

I used to love birthday parties when my son was little. I would spend a month or more planning the party with a theme chosen by the both of us. We would have Pin the Tail on the ??? (donkey, puss-in-boots, Pilchard, sail on the pirate ship etc.) I'd make up games or craft based on the theme. We would decorate the house based on the theme and have theme appropriate food. I would cook the cake then supervise my husband who always wanted to decorate the cake. It was sooo much fun.

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52-Week Illustration Challenge: Week 9

Week 9: Baking

This week I was inspired by the idea of a retro housewife from the 1950s. 

The hardest aspect of this illustration was being happy with the body proportions then adding in the legs, feet and shoes. 

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52-Week Illustration Challenge: Week 6

Week 6: Garden

It has taken me quite awhile to decided on the subject for this week's topic, many ideas were sketched and discarded. Finally I chose the Manchurian Pear blossoms with a bee - I photographed the blossoms in the Spring of 2015. The biggest decision was how to represent the generally white flowers? Gouache with Watercolour in a variety of tints. I made the decision to leave the background white and gave it a black boarder.

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52-Week Illustration Challenge: Week 4

Week 4: Ode to favourite children's book

It took me a little while to decide which story and then I had even sketched an illustration onto watercolour paper for "Where the forest meets the sea." and then changed my mind to Rapunzel. 

This is the moment in the story when the prince hears Rapunzel sing and asks her to let down her hair. 

The trees probably need more light and shade but I'm not sure if that will just lead to too much reworking? This is something that I will work on in my next illustration.

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New art supplies.

For me an art store is as deadly as a book store.
It is sometimes part of my preparation process for a new creation.

52-Week Illustration Challenge: Week 3

Week 3: Australiana

This week was a new challenge for me. To actually commit to adding watercolour (wet pigment) to my drawing plus try creating waves. My illustration was inspired by my a family photo. I still need work on developing the wave painting skills but all in all I am fairly happy. See below from more photos.

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