Floating Lemons

A Coloured-In Page & A Doodle

 

 

I finally found the time to colour in one of my own drawn colouring pages illustrations. Looks like I was in quite a bright & cheerful mood too, as it's turned out quite colourful. This one is 'Wildflowers" and it's next to the original drawing in my moleskine journal.

 

 

I was trying out these new ZIG Clean Color watercolour brush markers, and they're not too bad at all, but also used some of my trusty Faber-Castell Pitt brush pens ... they have a lovely range of colours too. It also helped hugely that I printed the colouring page out on ultra-smooth 120gm paper ... nice, thicker than normal printing paper, also lovely and white.

And started doodling what might turn out to be a background for the next colouring page:

 

 

And no, I have as yet no idea of what that will turn out to be. I just know I'll enjoy working on it. If you'd like to print out one of my colouring pages, they're available for purchase and immediate download up at my Etsy store, just click here: Floating Lemons at Etsy, download, print out, enjoy. Please do send me a photo of the finished result so I can put it up here and at my facebook page. If you post it on social media, don't forget to tag it ... #FLcolorpages. Cheers.

 

Dip Pen Doodles

 

 

Needed to take a break from staring at blank pages and working on far too many problems, so started fooling around with my new dip pens, and some Winsor & Newton ink and watercolours. I'm really liking the scratchy feel of these pens, and the smudginess of the non-waterproof ink. Going to continue experimenting with these on some of my other illustrations and projects, with a looser, slightly more imperfect feel.

I do love new challenges ... I think it's also called problem-solving (!), but there's no reason why I shouldn't make it fun. Back to work now ... cheers.

 

Sweet Doodles & New Painted Flowers

Managed to do a bit of doodling this week in my moleskine journal. Have no idea of why candy emerged from my mind, but, there you go.

 

 

This doodle below is of a few of the many ideas that popped into a mind obviously looking forward to spring, though admittedly I've actually enjoyed the winter so far. Strangely enough.

 

 

 

I've also squeezed in the time to refresh my Painted Flowers from last year (pink and red), and work on a new colour variation (orange and yellow), also pretty and joyful for the coming spring ...

 

 

And added a coordinating pattern with just the ferns and the dots, to accompany the collection:

 

 

The Painted Flowers are all being uploaded to my stores these few days, and as soon as that's done I'll post a few of the gifts and cards over at my Floating Lemons Treats blog, so keep an eye out for them!

 

Newsletter News:

I've decided to extend the availability of my 2014 "I Choose" free printables until the next newsletter is posted out to subscribers on Saturday 7th February 2015. So if you'd like to download the whole series or any one of the months from last year, you have another week in which to do so! Just sign up for the newsletter HERE if you haven't already done so, or on the top left of this page.

Have a wonderful & joyful week. Cheers.

 

 

Float Like a Balloon and Raven Sketches

I've been busy at college. Started learning metalwork recently and it's wonderfully fascinating. I've done a couple of rough, small pieces and will show them off soon. Meanwhile I've managed a few doodles when time permits, adding colour to my Float Like A Balloon drawing and sketching a few ravens for fun, all in my moleskine blank book ...

 

 

So yes, I'm still fascinated by the black birds and their mythologies and fables, so will pursue that further whenever I find spare moments to do so. Right now I'm occupied with filling in college sketchbooks and drawing tons of shoes ... so expect to see loads of footwear up here soon.

Wishing you a week full of blessings and lightness. Cheers.

 

 

Doodle Day: A Proliferation of Peculiarly Painted Pets

It's been incredibly busy around here lately - getting ready for some huge personal changes, and enjoying the company of visiting family and friends - so busy in fact that I missed posting something here on Saturday. ooops. Have barely had time to breathe never mind draw, so I dug around for something I did a couple of months back, just for fun.

Here is my proliferation of peculiarly painted pets. Not sure whether to continue with these and turn them into a pattern or not ... what do you think?

 

 

Have a pleasant day packed with potty peculiarities! Cheers.