BeeGardenArtist: Casting Spells - Dec 2018

BeeGardenArtist: Casting Spells - Dec 2018:  'I cast a Spell On You', Grandfather and Grandgirl.  30-12-18. This is the second in a series of Grandfather and Grandchild wi...

BeeGardenArtist: Ducks, Goats, Snails and Flowers - November 2018

BeeGardenArtist: Ducks, Goats, Snails and Flowers - November 2018:  Wild duck Boy (with Wings to fly), Showtime, Baby and Grampa Bears, Waiting for A Train to Take Them Home Again.  The Brother...

Casting Spells - Dec 2018

Ordinary lives, ordinary things - the stuff of life - the cycles, the interconectedness of life on this planet, is the philosophy behind what I try to recreate in my artwork; be they drawings, paintings or other works. Enjoy

 'I cast a Spell On You', Grandfather and Grandgirl.  30-12-18.

This is the second in a series of Grandfather and Grandchild with book. (The first was Poppy Phil and Grandson. the next will be Grompi and Grandgirl.)

And then, a little colour to brighten it up and add some context.

Girl and Flowers

 Girl and Flower Garden 18-12-18

This Rose study is a trial with watercolour pencils. I am trying to find a technique where i can still do studies and completed images in a relatively short time, like in a drawing, but using some colour and a brush - i.e. painting!
In this study, first I coulred in a drawing of a rose...

...then I added water.
Not sure about the outcome. I still prefer like using watercolour on its own. I may just use wc pencils for highlighting in future.

Fruit, Flowers and Dreams. For Great Nana - Dec 2018

(2)                                                      The Visitor. 17-12-18                          (1)

Image (2) is an attempt at making the figure on the right look more part of the whole. I added a hand and softened the features a little.

 Strawflowers, Fruit and a Mug With Wrens on. 17-12-18

In Dreams. 06-12-18

This was drawn when I had no reference, but needed to do something as I was leaving to go somewhere for a while and would not necessarily have time to draw.

Of Kings and Possums - December 2018

 Joey, King of Charles Street, Child of Play

How to Keep the Possums Out of the Garden

Ducks, Goats, Snails and Flowers - November 2018

 Wild duck Boy (with Wings to fly)

 Showtime

 Baby and Grampa Bears

 Waiting for A Train to Take Them Home Again.

 The Brothers

 Goat girl

 Snail Girl

 Tree Boy

Added a touch of colour to the flowers in previous month's drawings.

What are Little Kids Made Of? And Other Such Stories - October 2018

 Red Balloons

 How to Bang a Nail in the Ground With an Axe

 Laughing Baby Girl with Flower in Her Hair

Flower Boy

Familiar Places, More Familiar Faces - September 2018

Morning Through the Mist

Jayke

Garden

Baby Boy

 Wedding Day

 Away With the Birds

 Kissing The Buddha, Whether He Likes it or Not

 The Little Bear Sleeps

Jayke

                                        

 La Famiglia

 Island Jetty

 Henry's Walk (Two Birds on the Beach)

 The Yarn Lady

 Brothers - Jose and Liam

 My Girl

 If Not For you

 Poppy

 Rainforest Man

 The Tool Maker

Iced Cordial (for one).

Faces and Flowers - August 2018

From now on my artwork will be displayed in month and year pages only, rather than types. Hopefully,  making it easier to navigate.

 Drawing for painting - My Girl

Baby Girl - done on the run in limited time while on holidays visiting family. I had only begun doing oils again after years of not using them and tried hurriedly to complete it the day before I left. All I se is what is not quite right!

Boy with flowers in his hair.

 Vase of flowers, daffodils and camillias.

Man of Science and Wonder - A portrait finally finished a year after it was meant to be and gone to it's owner. The pose was for an old 18th -19thC style with reference to science and boyhood.

Just Let Me Sleep - Lilly