Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri!

Better late than never :)

Illustration Friday: Jungle

I really liked this week's topic because I got to explore an old obsession of mine - plants. I came across a quote on Pinterest - "Draw what you see not what you know" and I realize the problem I get stuck all the time is because I don't exercise my observation skills. So, for this piece I did a sketch first and looked up some pictures and the plants outside my window as reference and for inspiration. You can see it's quite different from my usual style. It took time to get out of my comfort zone. Didn't think I could do it but ... :)  Learnt a lot!

Note: The last time I did anything for Illustration Friday was November last year!

Kebaya girls

 

Another piece I don't think I will be finishing any time soon. Half way through I started doodling on it. Then the toddler got her hands on my brush again and gave the girl at the bottom right corner a nice pink makeover.

It's the fasting month now and soon we will be celebrating Eid-al Fitr. Am thinking of making some cards.
We'll see :)

Toddler Art

The tween was a prolific doodler, drawer and painter from the time she was a toddler till she was about eight. These days she'd rather bury her head in a book or surf the internet.

Sweetie #2 on the other hand hadn't shown much interest in sitting down with a pencil and paper until recently. Sometimes she would come up to me swishing her arms around and say "Draw, draw!" 

Here are a few paintings she did this morning. When she thinks a piece is done she would say "Dah" which means enough or done. Haha :)

Acrylic paint on watercolour paper.

Happy Family 2

Here's another version I sent to my friend J for her book project. 

I went back to watercolour for this one. I gave the donkey an eye patch because I had smudged his eye beyond repair. I must say I like it. Troubleshooting! 

Birds in a tree

Watercolour and acrylic ink on 300 gm watercolour paper.

Back to people

 I missed painting people :)

Birds & trees

Sweetie #1 thinks this looks rather festive. I think so too :)

Illustration Friday: Tree

All done! 

Watercolour, acrylic paint, acrylic ink and pen on 300 gm watercolour paper.

More birdies

 

Watercolour and acrylic ink on 300 gm watercolour paper. 10" X 10". 

The books in the picture are Audubon's Masterpieces, A Collector's Guide to Games and Puzzles by Caroline Goodfellow and The Bedside Book of Beasts by Grame Gibson.

Birdies

The Daler Rowney watercolour birdies in full view.

All that glitters is not gold. All that is bright may not hold. Ok. I made that second bit up. I bought a new set of watercolour today. You can see it in the upper lefthand corner. As bright as the colours may be they don't hold up on paper. Not even a fraction. Bummer. I used the DR watercolour set, acrylic paint and acrylic ink for this piece but thought the phony palette looked great with it.

New!

I've been having some fun with my new Daler Rowney Watercolour Pocket Set. It's been stuck on my wish list for quite a while because it costs a bomb. Due to some recent good luck I finally managed to get it. It was a happy, happy day :)

Bird & Flowers #2

Another version of the bird in my sketchbook. Watercolour on 300 g watercolour paper.