FLIP: Prohibition

This took me a little longer than I expected because I had to readjust to my new glasses a bit, and I was a little slow in figuring things out.  There's still a lot more I'd like to do with this theme, and to ultimately come out with a finished product I have in mind, but here is today's offering.  :)

Acrylic gouache in my large watercolor Moleskine.  (Bonus points if you can tell what the original reference was, lol.)

Yay I can see again!

After a very painful week, I finally got new glasses!  Yay!

New paint!

I may have gone a little overboard, but it was in sale...

FLIP: Crystal

My glasses broke, but here I am still!  Actually I got this done last week and I have another that is unfinished that would also fit under today's theme.

Jessica did something really cool this week, I love her color gradients!

This week, Racoon-kun is back at work, precipitating crystals.  :)

This is acryl gouache and oil pastel on top with transparent gesso in between.

FLIP: Smoke

I'm excited to see what Jessica came up with this week!

I don't know if I mentioned before, but one of my purposes is to do some pictures that my toddler would like to look at.  As a side note, I love love love how this acryl gouache scans!  I tested a bit of regular acrylic with this one and did not like it as much (look at the fox's back; it's really darker but didn't scan as well).  I do think this image needs a bit of tidying up still with some ink and whatnot, but overall I was pretty thrilled with its outcome.

FLIP: Sparkle

First, sorry for the really, really bad picture.  Maybe I'll fix it later.

Second, as expected my sparkles are not showing up well.  *sigh* I wish you could photograph sparklies.  I am sure Jessica knows that this theme would not be complete without a pony, so here she is.  I had wanted to use my new paint on this, but I can't yet mix a good purple.  This is actually not done, sketch though it may be.  I can't yet find my silver ink and this needs a number of color adjustments, as well.

I am pleased, however, with the drawing.  :)

Sea Turtle Quilt, concept design 1

My eldest needs a baby turtle quilt.  :)

So here is the first design for it.

ACEO Owl

Matthew "helped" me with some pencil work.  (Thankfully *only* pencil!)

Acryl gouace with oil pastel, ACEO

FLIP: Messy

Jessica and I are starting a new Motivating Project.

I mentioned wanting to do more illustration/design work and so Jessica suggested we begin FLIP...fun loopy illustration project.  :p  I'm very excited about this.

This week's theme is Messy (totally a theme, not just the state of my existence right now).

I did some scribble work of the cats.

My scanner is horrible at this type of thing, so it only scanned sections of the pages, but I thought all things considered I'll just go with it.