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The painting of the boxes and coming soon – the trunk!

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I seem to float between drawing on paper and the need to paint three dimensional objects that are useful. Each little wooden box starts out naked… then I clothe it in Gesso and let it dry and harden overnight and upon waking, sand it smooth before decorating it’s skin.

When my mind is restless and full, [...]

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So that Loaded Christmas Cactus Opened

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And it’s still flowering! I moved it into the kitchen from the living room and set it on the central island there, as my coffee table (old vintage blue trunk) gets filled quickly with knick knacks, namely art supplies as I sit and doodle on the couch.

I’m officially renaming this Christmas Cactus, Birthday Cactus. The [...]

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Front yard flower – Lily

You know how you move into a new home and you’ve got no clue what was planted or not planted, will grow or not grow, is a weed or not a weed; with the latter being the most important question.
So, I just let it all grow this summer to see what popped up.
Well, this lovely [...]

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Backyard Blossom – The Miniature Plum Tree

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This tree is loaded with pretty petite white blossoms. Each blossom turns into a miniature plum complete with mini pit and at the mature size of a blueberry they are the sweetest little plums I’ve ever had the pleasure of eating.
I’ll be regularly updating the Garden 2009 Set on Flickr with both photos from my [...]

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Spring Magnolias – Series of 5 New Ink Drawings

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Each miniature original was drawn with india ink, pilot pens and opaque white ink on various acid free card stock and are available in the Original Art/Aceo Section of the shop.
Keep an eye out for much larger 10 to 19 inch prints in the shop. They ARE coming soon! Because my miniatures are very [...]

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How I Created Evolution – A Five Step Process

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It’s not often that I’ll share my process with you on how I create an illustration from beginning to end for a few reasons. Namely, it’s uber difficult when hit with inspiration to stop what you are working on and scan that in or take photos of it in equally timed steps. Two, it’s apparent [...]

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An apple edition makes 4

Amelia (Apple Edition)
Her 3 siblings.

And in other news…
…pooped
picked up pilot pen
drew on pretty petaled paper

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Amelia (Avocado Edition)

Meet Sunshine’s earthy sister!

Both Sunshine and Avocado made the front page of Etsy. Thank you
I created the Amelia series from an original gouache and india ink painting on red paper. I removed the background digitally and coloured her using Adobe Photoshop.
There is one other sister and her name is Blueberry.

The original painting is [...]

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Hope

I drew this as a test to see if a miniature drawing could hold up being printed at a 5″ by 7″ or even larger as an 8″ by 10″. This original measures 2.5″ by 3.5″. And guess what it held up beautifully for printing after scanning it at the obscene resolution of 900dpi.
I drew [...]

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Sunflowering Times

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An original created using Windsor and Newton watercolor, Prismacolor Verithin colored pencils and India ink on Arches cold press watercolor paper.
The original is for sale in my Art Shop. Prints are now available to!
Size of Original – 6″ by 8″ or 152mm by 203mm
Size of Print – 5″ by 7″ or 127mm by 177mm
This is [...]

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Another land another day another dream

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Sometimes art needs to take you away
to another land where flowers spin,
the terrain is checkered moss green and ocher;
where the grass grows as bamboo
and is pointy at it’s tip.
I created this art card using Kroma artist quality acrylic, pigmented ink and archival pen on 1/8″ (3mm) thick cold press illustration board. It is varnished three [...]

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Bethany – Art Card

Get your rulers out!
Size – 3.5″ by 2.5″
Artist Quality inks on 1/16″ thick grey card stock
ACEO – Art Cards, Editions and Originals
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THEN there were five flowers…

…sprouting from the orange hued alien terrain.
THEY were happy flowers.
They grew together UNTIL…
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Size – 2.5″ by 3.5″ or 6.4cm by 8.9cm
Artist quality acrylic and India ink on acid free card stock
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Orange Dream

Using India ink and Kroma artist quality acrylic I meticulously decorated this bead with flowers and top coated it three times with water based hardwood floor varnish.
Size – perfectly round at 1 1/4″ high and 1 1/4″ wide
Hole size – 1/4″

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Let me intoduce Amelia who made the front page

This is Amelia.

And this is her little sister Becky.

Both were drawn with india ink and painted with gouache on red Canson paper. Amelia measures 5″ by 5″ while Becky weighs in at 3″ by 3″.
Amelia made the front page of Etsy today!

Go Amelia!

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Belladonna

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The fictitious Belladonna bulb in bloom…
I completed this watercolor today.
Size – 4 by 6 inches
Materials – Faber Castell Pitt Artist Pens, Windsor & Newton watercolor and Holbien gouache on Arches watercolor paper

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Floating Matilda

Get your rulers out!
This piece measures 3.5 by 2.5 inches which is the standard *ACEO size.
It is a one of a kind original. My eyes crossed many times while drawing this.
Materials – Archival Micron 005 nib pen and Windsor & Newton Watercolor on 80lb rounded corner card stock.
*ACEO – Art Cards Editions and Originals
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Boot in the Box

Drawn in a Moleskine Cahier using a Pilot G-tec C4 pen.
The above scan has been converted to greyscale from colour in Photoshop.
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eeeeek LEEKS

Perhaps in the not so distant future modern man will come to appreciate all mother nature has to offer. What you see in these pictures are edible. They are the offspring of the Leek (Allium porrum), a member of the Liliaceae family or the disputed Alliaceae tribe.

Unaware that leeks produced flowers during their second season [...]

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