Drawings and paintings :)

Just a couple of pictures of artwork I have done this week

This one I just did for myself, it was an image that had been going around in my head for a while, and I needed to get it into paper. It's just pencil on cartridge paper.

This chap, if you haven't already guesses, is Boris the miniature Schnauzer! Someone on instagram saw my painting of a sausage dog called Percy, and wanted one of their pooch. This was a nice fun one to do. It is done in watercolour and fine liners on watercolour paper.

Recent work

A commission completed for someone's wife for their anniversary, based on a few of her favourite things.

A painting for a first birthday and christening

A cross stitch portrait for someone's Birthday

I took my work into the camper van, so I had a nice little outdoor studio.

Winston came to keep me company! :)

Pet Portrait Commission

A few photos of the latest painting commission I completed.

A painting for Theo

A photo of a painting I did for my 2nd cousins bedroom. Hope he likes it!

The set is complete

Hey everyone, I know it's been a little while since my last post.

You have already seen glimpses of these guys, but now they each have a proper image of themselves.
Really quite pleased with how they turned out!

Some of the colours are slightly off on here, as I forgot to save it to RGB mode.

Opinions are welcome!

Which character do people like the best?

Many more characters are in the pipeline for other things. But these are the core characters for the 'Mush-noo' series, with guest appearances from tinman Trevor who has appeared before.

As you may have seen my artwork tends to jump around a bit, but I think that this is what I will mostly be concentrating on for now. Creating cute little characters makes me very happy!

I am also working on creating some more actual physical paintings, rather than just digital work.

                       

you still can't quite beat the feel of a paintbrush as it slaps the canvas! Is very difficult getting a finish as smooth as in illustrator though! Well frankly it is obviously impossible!

Nursery painting

ooooo also forgot to show you the pics of the completed painting for my niece to be's nursery!


So here goes ..........

 and here's a close-up

  pretty darn pleased with how it turned out in the end! Hopefully my sister and brother in law, and of course my niece will be too!

Progress!

Have been working on the painting for my sister and brother in laws baby's nursery for quite a few hours now and finally feel like I've turned a corner with it, I'm almost kinda pleased with it at the moment! Here's a few pics of it in progress, hopefully soon a photo of the finished piece will be up.

I have never painted in such a flat, graphicy style before, and I must say it is really tricky, especially when your mixing up your own colours!

Pet Portrait

I have finally finished the painting I was working on. Phew! Probably took about 8 hours or so. Think I'm happy with it now, but I always find that when I have been working on a painting for a while, and staring at it for hours it never looks quite right, so I'm hoping that's why.
It's a commissioned piece I've been asked to do of my mum's puppy Molly, for Christmas.
I used to paint animals all the time, but it's been a while!

On to the next one now, a painting for a nursery, should be fun as it's based on my own design rather than working straight from a photo.
Here's a link to the original design I created http://www.flickr.com/photos/samanthaeynon/4089457768/