Kingfisher

Some more felt tip pen experimenting. Getting the colours right on this one was tricky, but layering the blue and the greens worked well in the end with a bit of grey blending over the top! Happy with the way this one turned out, particularly the simple fish.

'Grounded' - Illustration Friday

Finished! Really enjoyed doing this one, I added more seagulls of different sizes and got rid of some of the heavy black lines keeping it quite serene. You'd need to be calm if you were stuck grounded on that boat!

'Sink' - Illustration Friday

A bit of a tangent from this weeks topic, but I really like the colours and wintery feel, fits in perfectly with the weather we're having in England!
Hope everyone is all set for Christmas :D

natural history museum

It's amazing that you can live on the doorstep of some amazing places and never actually go isn't it?

I finally visited the Natural History Museum at Tring over the weekend and it is FULL of amazing taxidermy and animal-info. I took a million photo's and couldn't resist a bit of sketching, so here is a moonfish that I've just finished. It's watercolour, pencil and graphite on paper :)

More sketches to come (and visits no doubt!)

'swell' - illustration friday

A quick entry for this weeks Illustration Friday. The prompt was 'swell', so what better than a puffer fish?! Poor things get startled and swell up like a huge balloon... still, very cute even for a fish!

This'll be my last post for a while as I'm back into hospital from tomorrow, more knee work! All the recovery time will give me loads of time to draw, crochet and embroider though so it's not all bad :)

My Etsy shop will also be down for a while, but as soon as I'm back feeling a bit better it'll be back in business!

fishbowl...

'rescue' - illustration friday

looks like these fish are in need of rescuing...