Raining again

Well, at least I'm not missing any good sunbathing time and it means I get more drawing done, yey.
I've managed a Peacock feather and a bunch of leaves so far. The peacock feather's my favourite :)

 #leaves #peacock #feather #drawing #watercolour

Flutterbys

Got some more pretty butterflies for you :) These ones are the '88' butterfly, because of its markings, the zebra butterfly and I think it's called the Blue Adonis - it's a teeny tiny blue one I've only ever seen in Guernsey...

 These ones are all British ones (I think the top one is anyway, not sure where it's from cos I took the pic at Manor Heath Park and Jungle Experience in Halifax). The other ones are - Red Admiral, Gate Keeper, Purple Emperor, Camberwell Beauty and Small Heath. Well, thats what it said on the website and it looked very official.

All done with watercolour and pencils :)

Butterflies this time

I know, it's been a while but I've been off researching for this new project - fashion embroidery this time - and my theme is butterflies :)

Moodboard - didn't make me hate it this time which is always a plus

These butterflies are pencil or watercolour.

Now I just need a way of turning them into stitch and make something fashion-y out of them...

Even more fish...

I know, I thought there were no more species of fish left for me to draw but I found some!

And I painted my sleeping mermaid...

Well, from today there will be no more drawing, we're moving onto new print techniques and screen development so possibly say goodbye to mermaids cos I think I'm sticking to the fabric fish...
Sad times for mermaids :(

Give me hope in the darkness that I will see the light...

Have not stopped listening to Mumford and Sons for the last few weeks and it's becoming my little theme tune to my under the sea stuff. (Title is taken from their song 'Ghosts That We Knew')
It's helped me with these last few pages...

(I dont like this mermaid as much as the other one... I think it's cos the colour of the sea is nicer on the one I did before and because she's a bit funny looking in the picture. She looks better in real life, honest :) )

Mermaids and Dragons

(Not real dragons obviously, that'd be silly. Mermaids, of course, are real)

Well, thats what I've been drawing the last few days - Leafy and Weedy Sea Dragons, mermaids and Blind Cave fish (they are actually blind, they have no eyes cos it's so dark in the caves they live in they dont need them. They have nice sparkley scales instead though)
I've somehow got superpowers and have become quite good at drawing, I think it's down to the new Mumford and Sons CD, it's fab :)

Here's my Weedy Sea Dragon, I forgot to upload the Leafy one but it's like the Weedy one just with more leafy bits.

...And the mermaid and her fishy friends

I'm not too keen on the fish, they just dont look finished but I'm soooo tired I wont be able to do anything to them without ruining it.

I like the mermaid though :) It's a lot better in real life, kinda loses something in the photo.

Once again I'm handcuffed to a drawing board...

... And with every drawing sheet I finish my tutors push the food bowl a little closer.

We've started on research for our printed cushion and tea towel now, so theres lots of drawings in period styles - mine is Neo Classicism and so far I've produced this sheet of Mr Wedgewood's beautiful Jasperware:

Not sure if you can get high from watercolours but I think I've managed it having my nose about 2cm away from that sheet all day.

I even have some close ups for you to admire...

I think the woman is my fave but I think my man look a bit like Lucius Malfoy crossed with Severus Snape which has kept me entertained for the million hours I've spent on this drawing sheet :)