Fuzzydragons

I spent most of the day working on this creepy looking horse skull. I don't know if its the angle or the fact that its a horse skull that makes it look creepy :p Its pretty big, and I'm not 100% happy with it, so will probably work on it more next week. No one has entered the giveaway for the scrapbooking software , so if you do, you have a pretty good chance of winning it ;p For more creative spaces, head here :)

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Its a fox! nah its the Finnish Spitz , which could very well get people yelling fox at you if you took one for a walk :p 1. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/robban_andersson/3814307736/">Finnish Spitz</a>, 2. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/greysockbluesock/3124592835/">Where is my dinner?</a>, 3. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/niera/5751376253/">Finnish spitz puppy</a>, 4. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/poksteri/3555736261/">Jeppe running part II</a> For more faves, head over here :)

I was starting to wonder why this blanket was taking me so long to do, as its not the hardest pattern in the world. I think I've figured out why. Instead of making the blanket 182cm wide...I've made it 182 inches. 15 feet. oops :p (its folded in the photo)

But at least it didn't get in my eye. That really hurts :p The plan was to do this with grey and white, but I don't have any grey here, so brown it is. Another study of a horse's eye, not yet done. Needs a bit more work until I will be happy with it, but I think it looks OK so far :) I realized when I was photographing this that I was drawing an owl this same time last year. How very odd. For sale I've put some more prints in my Etsy store :) Going to be adding more in the next few days.

This weeks word: 1. galshachs Last weeks word, lang-luggit means long-earred, someone who likes to eavesdrop. So Cindy had some of the word right with her guess :)

nekkid people abound :p Not that there really is anything to see. My life drawings are very sketchy when I use ink. Trying to get the foreshortening of that damn bent leg was driving me nuts. Still not right, but better than the first time I tried lol The standing pose I found easy, but there isn't any odd angles or really any foreshortening to deal with. Foreshortening is my evil nemesis when it comes to people :/ And hands. Really need to practice hands. Good thing I can draw from mine because I need the practice. Does make me wish I still had the extra finger. Would have made some neat drawings :p

So with horses my theme for college, I need to draw a lot of horses, or more accurately the parts of the horse. Hooves, ears, eyes etc. Might seem boring to most people, but I think it helps to study each part of the animal to improve your understanding of how it moves and how things are connected. This eye was actually blue, and yes it is simple to draw but any kind of practice helps :) And a very cartoonish blue horse, with odd ears :p I need to do a few paintings, and this is a sketch for one. Needs a bit of work, but the basic idea is there. :) I am drawing a lot at college which is good, but by the end of the day my brain is ready for a nap. Who ever thinks that drawing is easy, really should try themselves. OK, I think the actual motions of drawing are easy, its the having to think about what you are drawing that can be hard :p All the measuring and making sure the angles are right, works the head. People often think that I sit around all day playing with pencils, an...

contest closed I could spend hours playing around with this scrapbooking software :) I've never used digital scrapbooking software before, but it is so much easier than the traditional method. Yes, you do loose the textures you might have with "normal" scrapbooking, but I really do think that being able to move the objects around and change their sizes makes up for the lack of texture. Of course I had to use pictures of Sky to fool around with. I didn't know how to use any part of this program before I opened it, but I found it pretty easy to use. You can either use a pre-designed album or make up your own. Adding pictures was easy, you just click the box you want the photo in, find it on your computer and add it, pretty easy. You can add all kinds of different embellishments to your pages. The software comes with a bunch of stuff already installed with it, but you can download some free kits at mymemories to add to your pages, or spend some money...

The dog of the week is the (Norwegian) Elkhound . Don't know much about them, just like the way they look :p 1. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/owendr/176690449/">Elkhounds</a>, 2. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/16253935@N06/3154745011/">elkhounds & pups 02-03-08 370</a>, 3. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/purplefilms/4706727964/">Norwegian Elkhound</a>, 4. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/54559953@N02/5052527133/">oliver in the grass</a> For more faves, head over here :)

Or should that be deer Santa? :p Prints for sale  Original for sale I did this on watercolour paper with coloured pencil, and I really like how the pencils run over the grooves in the paper. For awhile, this looked like it was actually done with watercolours, but after I added a few darker colours, it started to look more like a pencil piece. I am going to have to try with the paper and pencils again, I liked the look and as long as I keep the colours light, it will look like watercolours. The technique might work really well with small landscapes or if I can't find any water around to use with my paint.  Months in advance and I get a Xmas picture done. Surprise even myself sometimes :p

This weeks word: 1. lang-luggit Last weeks peeny is an apron :)

 It is not a secret I'm not a huge Xmas fan, I do admit to liking the lights everywhere (ooh shiny :p), but I really could deal without people rushing around, freaking out trying to find the perfect gift. I really believe that you don't need a specific date to give someone a gift. Even if I'm not a Xmas fan, the dragons are :) hmmm wonder what he wrote to Santa for? Maybe wants to eat one of the reindeer? :p

Yep, still working on this :p Have managed to complete 3 rows tho in the last week, but not sure if I can do that every week and still get all of my work done for college. I am trying to think of a way to use crochet for some college work, but with a theme of horses, I can't think of an idea. And I really needed a hair cut, was starting to look really ratty :/ Much better :) and only cost £3 For more creative spaces, head here :)

 If you let your dog on the couch, this one might need its own couch to lay on :p The Dogue de Bordeaux is this weeks dog :) Have a drool rag handy too :p 1. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hluebner/4580634280/">Dogue de Bordeaux</a>, 2. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cfoleyphotos/2608823262/">Dogue de Bordeaux</a>, 3. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rivamist/5111416913/">Dogue de Bordeaux</a>, 4. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/35480250@N07/6102250056/">Thor - 4.5 months old</a> For more faves, head here :)

Note to self; move before the trunk gets shut :p Getting hit on the head bloody hurts, so a tad dizzy at the moment. Just hoping I don't feel like this tomorrow, since I am supposed to go to college, but my head hurts and its a little hard to concentrate :/ I was going to work on my cheetah, but the hit on the head put a halt on that. So hopefully I can work on it a bit more during the week. I have a few ideas for some horse drawings for college to sketch out too, have to include a unicorn idea. I think unicorns are overused, but they are one of the main things people think of when you ask about mythological horses. hmmm this post probably doesn't make sense, blame the head injury :p

This weeks Scottish word: 1. peeny Last weeks word, whigmaleerie is a decortion or ornament :)

Managed to get some more done on the cheetah. Still looks cross eyed :p meh, could make a title out of it being cross eyed I guess :p Need to fix the right eye, its a little too small....

Used turps today, forgot how strong they are when you use them inside :/ Could almost taste them when I took a drink, blagh :/ So, this is a very abstract (for me at least), horse skull done with oil pastels and then moved around with the turps. I really like using the pastels with the turps, you can get some really cool effects. I would do it more, but I'm not too keen on feeling loopy :p And keeping with the horse theme, a quick 10 minute ink sketch :) I can never use ink enough, if I had to choose only one art supply to draw with, it would be ink.

Its theme week again, tiny, small, little. The obvious choice is the chihuahua, but nope its going to be the Chinese crested . Another one of those dog breeds that you find either cute or really fugly :p 1. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adsbabe/3344404402/">Chinese Crested dog</a>, 2. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chadnewman/5378845296/">Chinese Crested Dog - 01</a>, 3. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/moonspellsquinte/4880273379/">Liska, our Chinese Crested Dog</a>, 4. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kofestudio/5519153095/">Chinese crested puppies</a> For more faves, head here :)

We were given a sketchbook that we have to use for one of our classes, pick a theme and go with it. Easier said then done, considering I can't seem to stick with one theme. I start out with the best of intentions, but a themed sketchbook often ends up with way too much stuff, it just seems like a garbage dump for ideas. Which for me, is really what a sketchbook is. But I don't know if that is what the teachers want. I am probably over thinking this :p So I picked horses for a theme (of course), but then I started thinking of all the other themes I could use instead; steampunk, circus, tarot, ancient egypt....the list goes on :p I guess I could use some of them with horses, combine them in some way. And as easy as cave paintings look, not so easy to draw when you want to focus on detail :p

This weeks word: 1. whigmaleerie (don't ask me to say it :p) Last weeks word, stoatin refers to being so drunk you can hardly walk :p

One eye almost coloured in. Not going to do much more of that eye until there is more done on the rest. And I have the plague, stay far away. I  venture out into the real world, and I end up with the plague. hmm that should tell me something.....:p