Fuzzydragons

A tomato ATCs from 2008 done with Neocolours and coloured pencil and some flowering cacti done in 2009 with coloured pencil. Last Throwback Thursday post with art because I have no more old art to post and I think I've posted most of the old photos I have unless I happen to find more :)

A few more ATCs from about 10 years ago. No date on the backs, but that is when I was making a lot of the little cards. A few kiwis, which I can't eat due to allergies/intolerance. People think I am really picky when it comes to food, I can be, but its mostly I know what I can and can't eat without getting ill or having an allergic reaction. I can't remember the paper type but obviously it is one with a lot of tooth to it.

A couple of ATCs from 2006 and 2008. I haven't done any cards for a few years now, they take too long lol I seem to take forever working this small, but when working bigger, and I'm not sure why, I seem to work faster.

Some more dragon ACEOs. A bit of a break from the etchings and coloured pencil work, and its nice to finish something in less than a day lol For Sale I really like how this one looks, kind of curious looking. Added a bit of watercolour to this one since it looked a bit plain just black and white.

For Sale Starting to put art back in my Etsy shop and a starting with 2 little ACEOs of dragons of course.Done with Derwent Graphik Line Painters and Derwent Graphik Line Makers. While I still am not 200% sure about the line painters, I have at least found a use for them so they are not a waste of money. For Sale I still find the line painters really messy and almost impossible to control, but the lack of control works when sketching dragons.

Not much of a blog title :p but really can't think of another one for these. Little cygnet, drawn with as few lines as I could but still have it look like a bird. And a sky ACEO drawn for the paint my photo monthly challenge. I might actually do this bigger in the future, I think the colours in the sky would be more effective larger.

Another drawing for the Virtual Paintout . Quick ink drawing of Robin Hood Bay, love the name :) I love my ink pens, should probably use them more as I am very quick with them and don't focus so much on detail. I've been wanting to start doing ACEOs again, so started with something simple :p A Peacock feather on black paper. For Sale Drenched again due to these clouds... but at least there was a pretty rainbow after all the friggin rain :p

Blogger is being a pain for me, not working more then its been working lately :/ So this will be a short and quick post while I cross my fingers that it actually works *crosses fingers* I have managed to draw little ACEOs for the last 2 days of May, but I have mostly been driving myself insane trying to make a blanket. As if I am not crazy enough already, for my first crochet project I am making this huge quilt. At least the pattern is simple and shouldn't take me months to do (of course now that I have said that, it will end up taking years to do :p). I'm not too concerned about what I draw everyday looks like, it could be complete crap. The point is just to draw something, and even if its junk, show people. I sometimes get people telling me that they are more willing to post their own work online when they see that I post my good art and the bad art. I am not afraid to show the bad stuff, so why should they. Thats great, and I figure I might as well show people the stuff I...

Copyright Jennifer Rose Phillip Lynsey over at one of her lovely blogs, aceo showcase has featured my pointillism piece of the patterned door. Please go have a look at all the other ACEOs that she has featured, lots of nice little cards :) *edit* changed the comment system. It should remember any details you put in and shouldn't be moderated so feel free to comment on other comments that are left. I like how this comment program works, helps get discussions going. If there are any problems with it, please let me know :D

Copyright Jennifer Rose Phillip ACEO Ink on Stonehenge For sale here Well for the moment anyway until I get the desire to try to drive myself into the crazy house (which we have driven past so I would know how to get there :p).I did manage to achieve what I wanted with this; to figure out how to make feathers with all the dots. Not super realistic but its not bad at passing for bird feathers :D (I know that is a bit of a price hike compared to my other ACEOs but these take forever to do and I think they show that :) ) I wasn't sure if my ink pens would last until this was finished but thankfully they did. I really do need to find the nibs for my plastic quill pen. It is so much cheaper buying ink by itself and I like the overall effect from using a pen nib better then a pen. Seems to have more of a texture to it compared to just using the ink pens. Of course when the nib catches on something on the paper or I turn around too quickly and send the ink container flying ink goes ever...

Forfar Loch May 31 Originally uploaded by fuzzydragons Gorgeous day today so went down to the Loch hoping to see some ducklings or goslings, but no luck :/ Maybe later on in the week. There is what looks like a black rhododendron growing in the backyard. Mr.F says once it flowers it will probably be a purple colour but I hope to get a picture of it tomorrow as its so odd to me to see a black one. So crosses fingers for no rain tomorrow :) "Everyday in May #31" Copyright Jennifer Rose Phillip I really need to think up a title for this. Pissed off bird doesn't seem to work :p Did about 45 minutes worth of work on this today, my back is really hurting for some reason so drawing is a little sore at the moment. I wish we had room for a drafting table, but I will have one someday :) (I could always build one myself. Which is a great idea because then it would be exactly how I want it to be). Put in the lines for more feathers and started on the back of the head. Still need to ...

Creative Space May 28, 2009 Originally uploaded by fuzzydragons My creative space this week :) one messy desk lol. Pencils for the eagles on the right and the inked bird on the left. I really need to finish the curtains for the kitchen. Then we can walk around naked*. I need a bigger desk :p (some notes on the picture if you click on it/) I wanted to get more done on the dotted bird today, which was supposed to be a Goshawk but looks more like an Eagle now hmph. "Everyday in May #28" Copyright Jennifer Rose Phillip Need to darken some areas and work on the neck area still but I do really like how this is turning out. Too bad it takes so long lol I had to stop and think about how to suggest feathers, its sort of worked, maybe leave a bit more lighter or white space next time to help pick out the feathers. I really want to use some Inktense pencils to colour the eye on this but not sure if it would be too much colour against the black dots. It would be probably just a bit of y...

"Everyday in May #25" Copyright Jennifer Rose Phillip I'm accident prone. Yesterday evening I was trying to look in the front yard to see why all the birds flew away all of a sudden, thinking I had to scare away a cat. The window was closed and I must have misjudged the distance because I whacked my head on the pane. Didn't really hurt at the time, but woke up today with a horrible headache that got worse as the day went on. Was feeling dizzy and my head was throbbing where I hit it. Mr.F phoned the docs and he said "yep sounds like you have a mild concussion". of course :/ great. So I did try to finish this card but all the dots were really giving me a headache. Tried working on the eagles but the same happened. I'm hoping tomorrow things are better and I can at least get some more done on this card, even if its not finished. Kind of puts a damper on trying to get 31 ACEOs done for Everyday in May, but can't do much if I can't concentrate on th...

Mr.F thought that the drunk pigeon was eating his peas but no. Its this little bird :/ and his pushy buddies (I swear its like a scene out of a Hitchcock movie when they all show up). They leave the peas in this photo alone but I guess the ones to the left are fair game. Well better them then the slugs (last year the slugs were HUGE! and everywhere) Some buildings for this weeks Monday photos :) Mcmanus art gallery in Dundee. Its been having work done for the last few months, and the fences are still up so not done yet. A church in Arbroath when I went to the college the other day. And the train station , notice the top of the building. It says 1911 :) Arbroath abbey from the crossing bridge over some train tracks. You can't really see it walking around but the bridge was up pretty high so could get a view of it :) On the top of the building I went in to :) Love old buildings and love finding these little signs on them. Since I've been taking the camera with us everywhere I ha...

"Everyday in May #24" Copyright Jennifer Rose Phillip I still have the allsorts in a container from the still life I did a few months ago. I think its probably time to chuck them :p They are not going mouldy but the colours have faded so much its hard to figure out which colour they were originally lol Another quick little card as I spent all day cleaning :/ but its done so now I can spend all day tomorrow working on the eagles and hopefully get a fair amount done on them. Of course if its really nice tomorrow I might just say "screw it" and go down to the loch to look for ducklings :p Baby birds are so cute :D This is in the neighbours side of the yard, I didn't realize what it was. I thought it was just a plain ole tree. Nope, but I wonder how long it will live now that the new neighbour is moved in :/ Not sure if the women upstairs is going to still take care of it now that the person who lives in the bottom flat is able bodied enough to do it himself. And p...

Took the day off from drawing but did manage another small experiment with the Yupo paper. Took the last card done with watercolour pencils and used Neocolors on top of that. I actually thought that the crayons were not going to "stick" to the paper. They didn't pick up the underlying pigment, but the Neocolors just slid off the watercolors. I had to press really hard to get any of the crayon to adhere to the paper but once an initial layer was put down there was no problems getting the crayons onto the paper. The crayons seemed to blend pretty well over the watercolors. And wetted down: Big problems with this :/ The underlying watercolours were picked up and washed off when I wetted the Neocolors. This had not happened on the other 2 cards I did. So this really ended up as a card done with Neocolors only as there is no evidence of the watercolor pencils except in the shadow. And finished and scanned: Photo: The actual card is somewhere between these 2. White paper, but t...

Another Yupo experiment.This time done with watercolour pencils. The pencils went down pretty easily. Felt again more like I was using markers to colour with, didn't have any issues with the pencils picking up any under laying colours. Blending wasn't a problem but I was using a light touch so that might have had something to do with it. And wetted down. I tried not to use as much water as I did last time but I still had a problem with the water pooling into one area and the colours just blended right together loosing any of the shadows I had tried to put down. And the scanned drawing. Once again the scanner really doesn't seem to like this paper :/ If I use watercolour pencils on Yupo again I need to put done twice as much or more pigment down as it dried very light. You can still see the pencil marks on the paper, but it actually looks neat and adds more to it, helps with the shading. I'd probably use these over the Inktense pencils mostly because when putting the pig...