Ligo - Midsummer

inspiration from the window - Symbiosis

Symbiosis sketch

Winter has led straight into a ferocious summer and the insects are making up for the lack of transition by swarming it seems. Two days ago as I stood in the safety of the house behind the glass wall I watched the sheep outside as they twitched their ears trying to deal with the mosquitoes, when I noticed the birds.  The black birds we sitting on the fence and on the sheep! Whether sitting or walking a number of them had a bird on their back. It was actually quite funny and amazing to watch these passengers and the symbiotic relationship in play.
 Even though this is posted on Saturday it is my  Sunday Sketches entry:)Wishing you a Wonderful Sunday ♥♥♥ 

a 10 minute warm up

A little doodling pondering about mothers day. Wonder if it will get pass the doodle stage.  Playing with artrage symetery tool and prismapencil like brushes.

on my desk top

Morning, I am still suffering from the afterglow of reading my ArtRage 4 manual- sigh*** Below is what my present Wacom screen looks like just before 7am on a wet cold dreary morning.

 This is a WIP  page for a story I am working on.  What I wanted to share was the little custom colour picker which I discovered yesterday (yes by reading the manual). The custom color picker is the 1/4 circle in the lower left corner, with the painted bird in it.  I was quite concerned how I would paint the bird 30+ times throughout the story other than use the reference postcard (upper right with the pin). Then I read about how  I could sample my colours from another image. Yes that is nothing new, photoshop and illustrator etc can do it. So I got my original mock up and took the colour sample "shot" and I was expecting to see little squares which I would have to muddle my way through, but low and behold  when I opened the customer color picker I saw my bird and I just more my cursor on it and I get the color I need- WOW!! I am so thrilled about this! Yes Geeky I know.
I should state for the record this is not a new feature and is available in the lower version, whose manual I did not read.
:)
p.s - if any of you are wondering about the bird in the picture - she is in a cage, but as I am focusing on just painting her at the moment  I have made the cage's line art invisible, hence she floats in mid air :)
p.p.s I am using digital watercolour here.

a 10 minute unwind

unwinding from a non art day with a little symmetry play with my new artrage 4- yup I upgraded it today and am loving it. I think I am loving it too for I finally read a manual and there are some things this program can do that are amazing.  Okay off to wash the dishes- urghhh

Fortune telling on a Sunday

It is April now and each day on the local news portal there are predictions of when Spring will come. We wait in anticipation of that day as it snows and snows. There is not talk of summer as yet :)   So today my Sunday Sketches entry is a fortune teller.
Digital water colour with a touch of digital colour pencils.
Wishing you a Wonderful Sunday ♥♥♥

A blue bird on a Easter Sunday

A little digital watercolour blue bird in the hope that spring will soon come for us and my entry for  Sunday Sketches. Hope you all have a great Easter Sunday.

eye pratice

Wish I had more time to play on this today. Digital watercolour - Artrage3

Playing with Artrage

Playing with some watercolour brushes in Artrage. I have a book to work on where I want to use digital water colour and in the past when I have wanted to use Painter it kept crashing in the middle of painting and my pc is not powerful enough to use the watercolours without serious lag time - like go and make a cup of coffee lag time between each stroke, so I have been opting to use photoshop. But alas as for me photoshop does not create great watercolour work :( . So I dusted off my Artrage, watch some tutorials and began to play. This weekend I will start the first illustration in the book project and will see if my pc will be able to handle the 8.5 x 8.5" 300dpi illos  without too many coffee breaks or head banging.
Artrage can be found here http://www.artrage.com/artrage-studiopro.html
Some tuts can be found here http://www.artrage.com/artrage-tutorials.html
A good additional tutorial ( which I am working my way through) can be found here ( also the textures talked about in the artrage tutorials) http://www.digitalartacademy.com/courses/artrage-pro-watercolor-and-mixed-media/
cheers and have a peaceful Good Friday

a rabbit on Sunday

Ahh I final got something done on a Sunday - yeah !  So I get play on  Sophia's  Sunday Sketches. Hope you all have a great day.

PB Dummy Challege

I have not for years set a goal but this year I have decided to try and do one complete picture dummy book. So I have applied to join the unoffical PB Dummy Challenge - I am crossing my fingers I am not too late in the game to play.  Either way I will follow the guides and do a book of my own -yeah !  So the first thing to do is to pick a project. Hmm that is hard I am between Peep and turt and my  little ghoul boy. I think I might be leaning towards Peep and turt as they might be easier to deal with..hmmm...

ghoul boy

peep and turt

Till next time :)

A birthday sample

copyright Jehanne Silva-Freimane

A reject job sample to show I can draw and paint,  which I decided to finish as I wanted to play more with Painter.   A number of things need moving to make it more balance, but ....  The words are not the original ones that come with story  but are mine and tell the situation (Oh my I see  typOs LOL) .
Used Painter 12 - colour pencil, watercolour and blenders.

Spring thoughts in mid winter