Picture I made for Pete

Here's a picture I drew for Pete for Father's Day.

It started out as just the dude (Pete) on the drums. Then I thought it looked a bit plain, so I added a chick on a guitar (me) and a saxophonist (another Pete).

The drum kit was tricky as I am so lame-o at pespective and angles and stuff. I can see a few bits where I could have improved it, that's the beauty of hindsight. It was a pretty quick little picture to do compared to my A3 size stuff.

Clowns

I bought this frame on Thursday from GoLo for $3 - such a bargain as it included the cream mounting. I just chose a portion out of my circus scene I did last year that would make a good little picture by itself.
It was nice having more space to draw in as usually my pictures are a lot smaller and harder to put in a lot of detail with the colour. It took 3 and a half hours last night to colour. Usually it would take longer as I spend a fair bit of time coordinating colours and testing out blends - this time I already had the colour combinations to give me a start (from the original)

Here's the clowns cropped:

Today a lady from Pete's work saw my winter pic and asked what it was.
I said I drew it.
She says, " oh, and Samuel coloured it in?"

Pete and I had a little chuckle afterwards.

A Photo of My Winter Picture

I finished this last night (after i recovered from a 2 day tummy bug!)

It's hard to see the detail so small (and it's a photo, so a bit blurry and glarey).

I'm not yet sure if I am totally happy with it, but I enjoyed the challenge of a snow picture. It was very different to get all the colours to work well with so much bluey/purpley snow everywhere. If I did it again, I would do a few colours differently.

I never time myself when I am drawing, but it does take ages.
I did the stripey tree and spotty tree one afternoon and it took just under 2 hours.
It took me 2 and a half hours to colour in the snow.

Some Close Ups

The Left Side The Right Side
Centre
Random Sections

A Sneak Peek

Here's some cropped images of the winter pic I am working on.

Obviously, still have a bit to go. They are cropped and shuffled up. Just taken with my camera. Hopefully I will finish early this week and get it scanned in. It is A3, so have to get it scanned in @ the printers.

What Talent :)

Winning his THIRD colouring comp, pictured in the Wednesday Edition of The Champion Post, the local paper

(click to enlarge)

Still a cutie!

Going crazy with the bunny when he got home.

Picasa

A few people have asked me lately about making the photo grids. I downloaded a FREE photo program from Google called Picasa (click here).

It's not bad for a free program. You can edit your photos with colour, crop, sepia, black and white, lighting, shadow, glow, black and white focus stuff etc. Plus make grids of photos.

I still have copies of all my pics in Image Zone and Picasa automatically uploads copies into Picasa. Have a fiddle with it if you like :)

(Still daydreaming about photoshop though...)

Carissa standing over the air-conditioner vent

My Saviour King

I will never be able comprehend Jesus' death and sacrifice in all it's fullness. Words cannot describe what God's Son did for me. I know he raised from the dead and is alive today. I know he loves ME.

I love Him.

Carissa Today

Cartoon Me

I took a photo of some pictures I drew a few years ago (wonky photos). These are only cartoony little pics, but I still like them. They have been up on a wall, so unfortunately they have faded :(

It is a series of 3.

ONE: Me, set free, made a new creation to worship the King of the Universe.
TWO: Me, a Warrior Princess Chick, a daughter of the King, dressed in the armour of God
THREE: Me, Spreading God's love everywhere I go, "we are the fragrance of Christ to all who are perishing, the aroma of His Love."
In other cool news, we got a new scanner/colour printer/photocopier (Thanks Goulds!) - so when I fully initiate myself with it, I can scan in heaps of my art stuff.

Keep grooving on my little sunflowers and hippos!

FunKy HouSeS

Here's some cool houses I like. Very Funky and a bit Crazy. I'd love to live in a wacky (but cool) unique house.







I can't wait to see the house God has for me in heaven. Like He is seriously THE coolest EVER creator & designer. He is the King of Creativity, I know he'll come up with something ultra cool and awesome for me!

Chalk Drawings by Julian Beever

My Toobalicious buddy Sam Z forwarded thse chalk drawings from Julian Beever to me. I thought I'd chuck them on my Bloggedyblog as they are Incredible!!!!!

Julian Beever is an English artist who's famous for his art on the pavement of England, France, Germany, USA, Australia and Belgium.

Beever gives to his drawings an amazing 3D illusion. In some of them you can still make out the cracks of the pavement. These are ultra-cool!

There is no hole in the ground.....
Politicians falling into their demise

This one was designed to be viewed thorugh an inverted mirrorBatman and Robin to the Rescue!

Told you they were cool, hey! Which one do you like best?

Colin Thompson

Here is one of my favourite illustrators, the very talented Colin Thompson. He has done heaps of books and has heaps of cool cool very cool ultra cool stuff. Below is only a few that I could download on here easily. I love his creativity and all the cool unexpected little bits and pieces he chucks into the picture.

I could never draw like him, but I am definately inspired by his unique flavour and original ideas. He in an Aussie, orignally from the UK You can check his site here if you are into it. It has heaps of info on how he illustrates (used to be pen and ink, now does it all on the computer!) and on his cool ideas and he is an all round interesting character.

Enough of my blurb. I could rave on forever about good illustrators, I don't seem to prioritise my own drawing, but one day I might be famous - so Pete likes to tell me (lol). So it pays to be nice to me now.....he he he!

Here's pictures from one of his newer books titled "Castles". It has no words in it, just all different themed eccentric castles. He did all of these using a computer program and drawing on a special mousepad thingy.

This one's called "The Rose Castle"Let me know what you think of him, or which pics you like :)

My Artwork

Hey! You can check out some of my artwork here. Or @ the link at the top of my blog.


Here's a mini picture to tantalise you. You can add my artwork blog as a link on yours!