Bonfire Night!

Here is the finished illustration. I combined parts from my Halloween illustration with my watercolour paintings.

Firework Doodles

I've spent this afternoon using my watercolour paint to create some Firework doodles. I think I will have a play about with them in Photoshop tomorrow and make a Bonfire night illustration. I will see what I can do!

Tortoise on Walkabout

Hen & Duckling in water

I thought I would upload this to my blog as it was never used for anything and I want to show it off! :)

Cat & Fish

Happy Halloween

Well it's nearly here, I love this time of year, such fun! I seem to be constantly painting trees at the moment, and what better time of year to paint a spooky tree than Halloween. Hope you have a fun night when it comes :)

Hen & Duck

Boats

Painting Trees

I've had a very relaxing Sunday afternoon painting trees. Hope you've had a lovely weekend :)

Autumn Leaves

Sorry things have been so quiet on my Blog recently! Here is an Autumnal spread for you as it is starting to feel a bit chilly here. :)

Summer Holidays

So school's out for summer now, which means I have lots of time to spend on my own personal art projects. I hope to do lots of drawing in my sketchbook and continue building up my porfolio. Happy days! :)

Tea Party..

This is what I was working on today. Trying out more of a limited palette. It's difficult not to go a bit crazy with adding random colours, so with this piece I tried to use similar colours to get a different effect. It's much more subtle than the colours I usually go for but I quite like it!

Fishing Boat

Findochty Harbour

I did a sketch of Findochty Harbour a few months back, and have finally got around to adding some colour. My original drawing had black lines but I decided to change them to white. It's incredible the effect the colour of line makes. It changes the drawing completely and gives it a very different feel. Thanks for reading and enjoy the Bank Holiday!

Chicken & Worm

Here is a wee peek at a section of what I'm working on today. I don't want to show you all of it until it's finished. I'm probably going to do lots more tweaking before I'm happy with it!

Chicken & Duck

I am trying to master drawing digitally with a tablet. I want my drawings to look fresh and lively and as non "digital" as possible. Here is a little snippet of something I'm working on at the moment.

Ducklings

I went to a talk in Edinburgh yesterday by the illustrator Ross Collins, it was fantastic. I am feeling very inspired today and have been frantically sketching out ideas for a book. One of the characters in the book is a duckling, here are some sketches showing what i've been working on.

Greetings Cards

Here are some more ideas that I had for some greeting cards. I thought the flower one could be used as a sympathy card. I quite enjoyed doing my hand lettering, think it's a bit more personal than using a font. All these designs are available to license. I'm now am off to try out some more ideas x

Tortoise Tuesday!

A wee experiment that I did today. I made this as a present for my friend who has just had a baby! Looking forward to putting it in a nice mount to bring out the greens. I enjoyed making scratchy paint textures and incorporating that into the drawing, I think it works quite well. :)

Card designs

I am trying to come up with some designs for a range of greeting cards to go into my Etsy shop. This is my first design using an earlier drawing of teapot and cups, However I now think it looks more like a book cover! I made the background using paint and a large brush. I'm also experimenting with lettering and creating my own "fonts". I had a lot of fun making this one and have got my thinking hat on for some more ideas!