Fuzzydragons

Ok, it just looks like its underwater. More totem poles for college, but I really like how this turned out and while it is supposed to be for my sketchbook, I want to put it on the wall. So...the sketchbook will get a print of it instead :p

Took my little fish and using the computer put this little design together. The plan is to do a round lino cut, maybe in two colours. And blogtober is over! Managed to post every day, even if the post was only a picture :p

rusty door , a photo by fuzzydragons on Flickr. So this is 2 weeks in a row that I have missed college on Tuesdays. Last Tuesday it was because of a migraine from hell, and today it was because I have a mild concussion and am really dizzy. They are going to start thinking I am avoiding going on Tuesdays on purpose :p Of course I go and hit the front of my head on the roof bars on the car and then 2 days later hit the back of my head getting out of the car door. Feeling a little dizzy :p (the photo is of a rusted door, just really liked all the colours)

Whenever I hear this song I think of my childhood, as the whole album was played a lot growing up.

mill , a photo by fuzzydragons on Flickr. This weeks word: 1. owergyaan Last weeks words: 1. hairst is the harvest 2.snell is a cold wind

I have wanted one of these star resin necklaces from here the first time I saw it and finally had the spare money to get one. I love it :) Spent the day taking photos of an old ruined mill, just too bad I couldn't get right up to the building to get some shots. Did find how people were getting in to graffiti the walls (and other illegal things as well), but I'm not built for urban exploration :p and its on the corner of a busy street so someone would probably have seen :/

Still making a mess with pastels but there are 2 horses now. Really like the orange horse, but probably shouldn't be that orange :p

For sale here Finished little robin :) I used Faber-Castell art grip Aquarelle pencils for this and I do like, them but a few things about them: I did find them easy to hold because of the triangle shape instead of a circular one They were easy to use dry on heavy duty watercolour paper and the colours were vibrant  But when the pencil is then wetted the colours get very light. Either I need to put a lot of pigment on the page or I just have to stick to mutiple colour passes with the pencils The colours blend/bleed together well  When the pencils are used wet directly, the colours are rich and vibrant, so I could just use them wet but that does eat up a lot of the pencil So not upset I bought them and will keep using them but will probably combine them with either ink or watercolour paint in the future. 

An etching for college not done on a piece of plastic or metal but on.... cardboard. I found it so odd to work on and really hard to not actually scratch all the way threw the board. As long as you use the shiny side it works since the ink doesn't stick to it and just stays in the lines. Still prefer etching on plexi-glass. The baby pigeon was picked up this morning and is being taken to a wildlife centre until he is old enough to fly and then be released :) Sky kept sniffing the hall door, she knew something was in there :p

Easily caught pigeon , a photo by fuzzydragons on Flickr. We went out and I saw this pigeon sitting in one of the hedges, people and dogs walking within inches of it and it just sat there. Still there a few hours later, so phoned the SSPCA about it. So now it is sitting in a tub covered with a sheet waiting to be picked up. It was caught way too easily to be 100% healthy and even if it is just exhausted and needs time to recover, it will be one less meal tonight for the neighbourhood cats.

I didn't feel like making a mess with pastels today, so brought out my new waterrcolour pencils to colour with. Great for drawing with, but time will tell if I like them,(hopefully since I just went and spent a lot of money on them :p) There is something about this time of year that makes me want to draw fat little robins lol

upload , a photo by fuzzydragons on Flickr. I haven't done these for awhile, so here are 2 words: 1. hairst 2.snell

Vicious dog?? Not really :p

So I have decided to try to do this in pastels. I work very messy and loose with chalk pastels. Its going to take a lot of layers to get this looking like a horse :p

"The head of Leda" Leonardo da Vinci    Went to see this today, and really no matter what you think of da Vinci (master or over hyped artist), if you are an artist and within 20 minutes of the sketches, you really should go see them :p Being able to get within less then an inch of these drawings was great, you could see every mark  made on the paper, how detailed they were, how tones were made. Glad to have seen them in the flesh, instead of something usually only seen in a photo. Very impressed by the anatomical drawings. And now I have seen 2 Sargent paintings in the flesh :) Didn't expect to see one in Dundee. I really need to do more research on him, I love how he handles light and fabric.

Supposed to be an idea for a print, don't know what kind of print, and it looks like something that is more suited to be in a colouring book. The totem pole turned out all right, but I didn't finish it. Probably sit in my sketchbook and nothing else will happen to it. I have managed to post every day this month, so yay! :p Don't think I could post everyday the whole year, too busy with college, but at the same time college does give me stuff to talk about so it might be possible.

Always nice when my hand goes numb, makes drawing interesting when I am dropping everything all the time :p Didn't turn out too bad, but I can't remember who the artist was that painted the original, oops :p Probably should have wrote it down.

Need to draw eyes for life drawing, and we are going to be doing self portraits too. Haven't drawn myself before so it should be interesting :p

I had planed on do a more realistic drawing of these horses, but in the end I really just wanted to make a mess :p Still needs work in a few places, and while I do like drawing realistically, it is nice to just draw and not really think about it.

So more design work, this time with the little fish I did for college. Scanned the print and then cleaned up the edges so only the fish remained and then went and had some fun :D A basic repeat patter. Doubled the fish and put them side by side in a repeating pattern. The same as above, but used the ripple filter. I  have no idea what I will do with these, but they are fun to do :)

Would 3 running horses still be considered a stampede, maybe its not enough horses...... So I tried working on the swan today but I kept messing things up, so before I really wrecked things and couldn't fix them I decided to draw something else. And of course, I fall back on horses because drawing them is second nature to me. Lots of more refining to go before I can even think about starting to shade this, but I like the way it looks so far :)

I haven't had much time to crochet anything between college work and work for my job, but thankfully I haven't forgotten how :p

swanWIP , a photo by fuzzydragons on Flickr. Small update on the swan :) Looking all right so far. Def. going to use this coloured paper again, its working really well with the white bird.

I need to make a bunch of shapes out of paper for one of the college classes, and while they have been easy to do, making a sphere out of paper was giving me problems. Not as easy to do as one would think, many ways to make one, but I just wasn't getting my head around any of them. But... I know how to weave and found this really great site full of paper weaving, so thought why not try to weave a sphere. Looks more like a balloon here :p and the paper clips are a must to try to keep everything together until you are done. And yay! A sphere :)

My little fish linocut. There should be another layer, black ink to give it a bit more detail but since this is just supposed to be a test piece I don't plan on spending a lot of time on it. Do you know how hard it is to make a sphere with paper? Its driving me insane :p

Actually wait a minute. I don't think swans quack :p 2 hours later, the swan has a bill and a hint of a head. Love using coloured paper, so much eaiser to work when you have a basic tonal value already there. I have had people tell me that its cheating using coloured paper when using coloured pencils. I don't get that, because its no different from painting a canvas to get a base colour. And looking at a bright white piece of paper can actually be intimidating, afraid to make a mark on the bright paper in case you mess up.

Ah the lovely ugly stage in coloured pencil work, where it looks like crap and you are crossing your fingers you don't mess up :p

A few small lino designs for college still going with the first nations theme, (about 2 by 3 inches). Going to use the fish design, I think it works the best of the 3. Finally got the swan transfered onto Aquamarine coloured Murano paper. I was wondering what I was going to do with this colour of paper, but it should work well with this swan *crosses fingers*. I am going to try not to use any greys on this, OK one for the black part of the beak but that should be it (hopefully).

Quick 10 minute sketchbook work for college. The brief for this class was "Who do you think you are?", so base your work on your family history. Bit of a problem when you don't really know anything about your family history, (hence why I was going through census records a few weeks ago). So because I consider myself Canadian, not Irish Canadian, just plain old Canadian, I thought I could use part of the history of Canada. There is a lot to Canadian history, so I decided to stick to researching about the First Nations people, their culture, art, basic history etc. So I've started on the west coast, and plan on working my way East. I have always liked Northwest Coast art, and have been learning a lot about it and the artists that create it, its very interesting. People might get sick of me drawing totem poles all the time tho :p

upload , a photo by fuzzydragons on Flickr.

upload , a photo by fuzzydragons on Flickr. Nothing beats cheap donuts :p When I worked nights at Tim Hortons, after a certain time of night you would take the donuts, bagels etc that were left and dispose of them. Well we never threw anything out, we would split the food between the 2 of us and take it home. Waste not, want not :) Was one of the only perks working nights, it wasn't the extra 25 cents an hour :p I was planning on working on my Swan today, but I go the migraine from hell. Felt like someone was kicking my skull :( On a brighter note, I don't sound so much like Darth Vader when I breate, just sound like a young Vader :p

Starting another coloured pencil piece, and yeah its another bird :p The sketch still needs a lot of work, but its a start :)