Drawlloween So Far

Drawlloween is coming along nicely this year, I have so far finished off 8 drawings for it and for some of the subjects *cough* bats *cough* I definitely had a lot of fun drawing so I went a bit overboard, but they are so far some of my favourites that I have done. Any and all of these I would love to tattoo as well so hopefully we get a few tattoos going with these as well. It has bee a lot of fun so far, so I will hopefully keep the ball rolling and get a few more done today.

I've added the list at the bottom if anyone else wants to join in the fun, I am going to try to go through the list in order now so that I don't end up at the end with loads of ones I don't want to draw. Should be fun!

Drawing Projects

I have also been doing a bunch more drawing, and its been fun, I have a bit of a project going which I am hopefully going to paint. So far I have been drawing animals from Endangered Species List which I want to turn it into a sheet, so I have started from A and drawn the animals in descending order alphabetically and that had good reference photos. Which is difficult and sometimes sad to find some of these amazing animals that only have a couple images coming up on google. It is interesting learning new animals, and drawing animals I wouldn't normally think of. 

 I also made Dixon a valentine because we have been watching a lot of Parks and Recreation, and Ron Swanson is one of the best characters ever. So enjoy that one!

Drawing and Walking

Just a nice short and sweet post here, catching up with my drawings and walkings. So in the last post I promised a bit about drawing so here are the things I have finished off recently, I might pick these up again, and work on them but for the most part I would say they are complete. The first one is of a character from Pretty Deadly, that I also posted here, which kind of constitutes my body of fan art, though thinking back I have done an Oscar the Grouch and Winnie the Pooh for Camille and Caryn, so a bit more fan art there. Any way she was a really cool character so I might try more with her again.

As well as drawing there have been some really gorgeous days out so here is Edinburgh being beautiful.

Watercolour

Last weekend (so this was stuck as a draft for the past two weeks, I though I posted it so hopefully it all makes sense still. So rather than last weekend thing around July 22?) was a rather productive weekend, drawing wise and house wise. We had loft insulation put in last week and so we had everything that was in our attic down in the spare room and living room. So first things first, we went through all of the boxes, its amazing how much stuff accumulates up there in a year! I was amazing how much stuff we were able to get through. Then Gordon and I took the extra things away to the dump/recycling center, and Dixon got ready for his weekly skate.

So after putting the remaining boxes into the spare room temporarily, I got down to the important bits, drawing. Which I was extremely productive for the day, even though I managed to watch 2 movies and facetime with my sister for at least an hour, not to mention copious texting with progress pictures along the way, with Camille and Caryn.

I am doing a wee series of paintings, of which I have two painted and one drawn, and I am really liking them so far. I am using India Ink which I haven't used before and I am painting all of my lines, which I have tried before, but it wasn't as successful, it was a bit messy. But I am really liking the ink, it behaves a lot like the watercolours I am used to but it is a lot of fun. Each of the paintings will be places I feel are a bit like my home, so one is Canada, one is Scotland and the last is the Netherlands, so one for where I am from, one for where I am and one for where I have never been. (The scanner cropped the edges a little bit, there is a nice white border around each)

Also a wee bit about the house, we picked a wallpaper we can agree on for the spare room, which is exciting! So I really want to make a start on the spare room and get the finished.

Junes Recap

So this post is mostly a photo dump of what I have been up to lately, I just haven't been focuses on gettting stuff up here, maybe I need to do another 100 Days Happy and then I will definitely get my posts up! We will see about that. I think that is the second post of June, better late than never! So lets recap my June!

So Dixon and I did some DIY in the house, our spare room was slowly just filling with clutter and he really wants it to start to look nice, I am not too fussed by having our spare room look good just yet, I mean we don't have any planned house guests as of yet... Anyway it was still really nice to accomplish something, though it was gorgeous outside and I really would have rather been working outside than in. But you can't have everything!

Caryn's friend came over with her friend, so I got to show them around a little bit, and we went to Mary Kings Close, and she also brought with her a fantastic Care Package from my lovely sisters. Which included Tim Horton's cappuccino mix, which I am having right now, Lego, an excellent original drawing by my niece and a picture of the mentioned niece, as well as a hand egg beater! The beater would make sense if you knew the back story. Anyway we had an excellent day out, though I probably talked to much, I always forget what I know about places if you were to ask me, but seeing them and walking down the streets it all comes back. So hopefully I didn't talk their ears off.

An thus ended the Lego drought of 2014, well actually Dixon, the best husband ever, also surprised me with some Lego, I came home from work one day and there at the top of the stairs was ECTO 1 the new Ghostbusters Lego set, and let me say I was ecstatic!  

Summer is really here, and it seems to be staying, fingers crossed! Which means lunch in Princes Gardens, bees on flowers and relocation of large eight legged visitors from the house, he was huge!!!

And as well as being productive in the house I have been a bit productive with my drawing and painting, here is a new one from the semi sort of series of landscape style drawings I have been doing, and I started painting the first one. I like it in the Black and Grey, but I think that I will probably still paint it in colour. Still deciding. 

And so that has been my June, its been pretty excellent so far, all the ups and downs you would expect from me, though I have mostly just highlighted the ups here, to recap the downs, the DIY went well except for one bit fell off, but thats totally fixable, so we will hopefully get on that soon, I applied for a new job, but unfortuantely it was given to someone else after an extremely successful trial, but I think that I'll be ok and hopefully I will find another opportunity, I think thats all of the downs, so lets end on an exciting up! Tunnoks Tea Cakes are vegetarian! I had my first one this week haha!