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#illo52weeks – Weeks 51 & 52
I can’t believe the year is over – which means The 52 Week Illustration Challenge founded by Tania McCartney is also over! It has been a great challenge to be part of and I have created over 52 illustrations that certainly wouldn’t have existed had I not participated. It was a delight to see everyone else’s creations too. If you would like to see the complete collection click here: 52 Week Illustration Challenge 2014 Week 51: Silhouette My other hobby is family history and I love the old silhouettes or Victorian era cameos that were in fashion as broaches and wall portraits. This is my daughter drawn using textas onto…
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#illo52weeks – Week 38: Giraffe
Giraffes are tricky to draw and even though I have included a giraffe in a previous illustration here: Week 3: Caravan, it was only part of one, so I decided to use the collage technique instead for Week 38’s theme. Week 38: Giraffe
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#illo52weeks – Weeks 13 & 14
We are in April already, so here are two more entries for Tania Mccartney’s 52 week Illustration Challenge: Week 13 – Water I had initially started this weeks theme on watercolour paper with watercolour paint, tissue paper and pastels. But the end result wasn’t what I had in mind. I like the shape of the humpback whales but the background/sea hasn’t worked. So I wanted to see what I could do to improve it by working on the illustration in Adobe Illustrator. I converted it by using image trace (16 colours option) and I liked the effect. Although it does feel a little bit like cheating. Never-the-less it is…
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Collage for class project
For those of you that don’t know I also write another blog called Learning Activities. It is aimed at parents and preschool/ school teachers displaying lots of crafty ideas. So here is another arty side of me: Class art project I love collage and there are many books where the illustration is created from a collage technique, such as these two books from my own bookshelf: Dinosaur Encore by Patricia Mullins and Crocodile Beat also by Patricia Mullins and of course there is Eric Carle and Lauren Child
