Little Princess

This is my sister's beautiful Himalayan/Ragdoll cat, Yuki. She is my sister's little princess.

Yuki is usually a very skittish cat, but this one day she was chillin in a box and she actually let me take a photo of her.  Now I need to draw my sister's other cat Hermi someday. :)

11 ½" x 11 ½" ; Steadtler Mars Lumograph pencils on Strathmore Bristol vellum surface paper and coloured pencils; 15 hours

This piece is framed and matted in a RIBBA IKEA black frame.

This piece is $300.00 and includes the frame. Please email me if you are interested in purchasing this piece. 

Shipping is additional. 

Thanks for reading this and cheers!

Painting at Puslinch Lake during the Lakeside Living 2014 Home Tour

I had so much fun painting at the Lakeside Living 2014 Home Tour today. Thanks so much to all the great people who came out, to Donna O Krafka and Jennifer Depencier for organizing a day of painting, and to Birdena and Dave for graciously allowing me to paint their beautiful property. 

Today I decided to really be spontaneous with the help of Karlyn Holman's techniques. I am so happy with the results.

Tomorrow I will sign, document and properly photograph them.

Thanks for reading this!

Time to move on

So I decided to re-due this piece again but in watercolour. I kinda ruined the first version that was done in pencil crayon. Whoops!

I am really struggling with this one, so for now, I am going to put this one aside and move on. I obsess too much over one piece to the point where it saps all the fun and creativity out of it.

I also wanted to inform all of you that Brenda Murray, Cathy Amos and myself run a local urban sketching group and we recently had an article about our group published in the Record (our local news paper).

Check it out: http://www.therecord.com/news-story/4432413-visual-story-telling-artists-join-kw-urban-sketchers-to-sketch-moment-in-community-s-life/

If you feel like joining us for some sketching, you can join our facebook group or you can look at our blog to see upcoming events: http://kwurbansketchers.blogspot.ca/

Keep on creating and cheers!

Work in progress as of February 27th

This one is taking me a LONG time, and a lot of patience, but I am happy with the way it is looking. I want this one to look amazing because this piece is meant to honour my grandfather who recently passed away.  But I think for future pieces, I will do a watercolour under painting first, then coloured pencil on top. If a piece takes a long time to finish, I get frustrated and it becomes really difficult for me to finish. But if I use watercolour first, it should help to speed up the process.

Also, check out my other accomplishment; my first spent Prismacolor pencil crayon! I know that it is silly, but for me, this is a milestone because it shows how much art I have been creating. So yeah me! I must celebrate these little achievements, yeah know.

Thanks for reading! 

Work in Progress as of February 26th

I just wanted to post and let everyone know that I am still alive and to share what I have been working on. Since my new style and medium is so time consuming, I figured that I should start posting my work as it progresses, instead of just posting finished pieces. Otherwise, my blog posts will be few and far between, which believe it or not, I am trying to get away from. Plus, I like seeing artwork evolve over time, and my hope is that you will too. 

Sorry about the bad photo, but I figured a quick photo is better than no photo at all. So for my works in progress, you will be getting quick photos. But more updates too, so yeah! 

This is coloured pencil on Canson Matt board. 

Thanks for reading and any questions or comments are always welcome. :D 

Blush

I am very happy with this one. Partly because I love roses, and partly because I really pushed myself and it paid off. I have attempted creating art from this reference photo before, but it did not look anywhere near this good.

This piece has been donated to the Arti Gras 2014 party that supports access to the arts in the City of Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. It will be auctioned and hopefully it will raise a bit of money. Proceeds from the event enable a wide variety of arts programs and activities in the community including arts programming for all ages, free concerts, the Cinesreies film program, school programs for children and opportunities for access for those with special needs.

6" x 6"; Prismacolor Premier coloured pencils and Faber Castell Polychromos on Strathmore Bristol vellum surface paper; 8.5 hours

Hershey

This little miniature pony's name is Hershey. I was visiting him to try to get a good photo of his two month old colt, but the little dude did not want to pose for me. But when I turned around there was Hershey, talking and eating. So I snapped the shutter and got this cute photo. Although I did not accomplish my original goal, the photo of him rocks, so I obviously had to paint it!  Also, the following week, his mane was trimmed, and I find the scruffy look charming on him. 

This was done with coloured pencil crayons. I have not touched coloured pencil crayons in five years. But it was the first medium that I tried out of high school. In fact, Andrew purchased a box of premier Prismacolor pencil crayons, and a book about pencil crayons for my first birthday as a married couple. Even back then, he was so supportive and amazingly thoughtful. 

For those of you who were waiting to see this piece, thanks for you patience. Spraying it and photographing it was not easy. But it is finally photographed and protected! Yeah me!

$200.00, 6" x 6"; Prismacolor Premier coloured pencils and Faber Castell Polychromos on Strathmore Bristol vellum surface paper; 30 hours

Please email me if you are interested in purchasing this piece.