Waxed Handbook

This is my waxed Handbook. I love the textures and colours that developed. :)

This is Murphy. You all know him. He really gets around.

Using Pan Pastels and Gel pens with cutouts and stitched with some nice thread.

I love wrens and walnut ink. This beautiful flower was carved by my great friend Kellie.

Just add red

"Seeing Red"

I felt like it needed more colour so here it is again with the background. It was also done in my iPad app Art Studio. I really like the way they made use of the ipad touch interface.

"Admit One"

And on the flip side this is hands in paint using acrylic paint and

then a few tweaks with Photoshop.

Bits and Pieces

Sorry for being so absent from blog land. Life has been packed with challenges as of late.

Here is a digital painting I did in "Art Studio" on my iPad. This is a great app for drawing in. It is capably of layers and blending your paint and is very intuitive to use. I think I will be using it a lot more. I don't use my iPad for surfing I love the apps you can get. I have a bunch of arty creative apps and I am surprised how much I am enjoying the apps with soothing sounds. They really can help me sleep listening to ocean waves, distant chimes or forest sounds.

The horse is DaVinci inspired.

"Gias the Time Lord" a journal page.

The face is painted entirely with my finger tip and acrylics.

"Cody aka Red"

Pitt pens and acrylics on mystery paper

Kellie gave me this interesting pad of paper and it is very cool. It looks like it wouldn't take wet media but it does very well and is surprisingly strong. Thanks Kell!

Summer is here at last. In Victoria we had such a wet winter, spring and even summer, until a month ago. Since then it has been awesome weather, warm and sunny with highs in the mid twentys typically. I have been doing tons of work on our yard. The 450 ft driveway is done and I am trying to smooth out the rough edges that heavy equipment leaves behind. Its starting to pay off. :)