Harlequin

...one more ...;-)

The Face

....last one for today...


If you want to know how to do this, I wrote a brief tutorial hosted here

Water bird

....and another one...

Bird in Flight

....can't seem to stop now..lol...

Palamino

....I'm on a roll now....

Laughing Boy

...and evolving even more...

Fire Dragon II

....and evolving....

Dragon Lizard

It keeps on evolving!....

Hangover

I thought it was time I did something new ;-)

This is all done in Paint Shop Pro X, and I've called it Hangover

Comments welcome

St Mary's Clelland - Detail

I seem to keep finding things I did a long time ago in cuboards!!

Bristol Board, Scanned Watercolour & Epson R300

Last night, after I posted the previous 'lost' watercolour, I thought about media for printed output and remembered I'd originally done it on Bristol Board (I do some airbrushing)
Good source of this in UK is (Winsor & Newton "Lana" 2 ply £5.50 for 20 sheets of A4)
In US try here

Bristol board is used mainly for airbrush painting and is coated with a fine coat of clay and I wondered if I could print this out on my Epson R300. So tonight I tried it and believe it or not it worked absolutely fine! There were a couple of hiccups where the paper needed fiddling with (nothing major).
I used the Heavy Weight Matte setting and the output is very good no ink runs and it dries quite quickly.
You might want to try it some time (below is what I printed out for test purposes)

Forgotten watercolour sketch

This is a watercolour I did some time ago but never signed

Sketch of a boy

THe sketch may not be of the best, but you really can get to the point of thinking you are drawing with a pencil when you use a graphics tablet

Night Eyes

Blast from the Past!

I was clearing out my papers today in preperation for the Tax Man and came across this tucked away at the back of the drawer.

I did this on holiday in Malta with my daughters. I took the challenge of only three colours and tried to paint with them. Can't remember in detail what the colours were, but it was a yellow, a blue and Paynes Grey

I remember the sketch by Da Vinci (top image) which was the inspiration for it. it was called Decorative Design for Hollow Boxes c1492 and was part of the Da Vinci exhibition in the South Bank in 1989 sponsored by IBM