Some Drawings and Paintings and Books.

Finally got round to taking those pictures of my pictures.

Excuse the 'curling' I've not got frames for them yet and guess it just happens with painting huh? Anyway, this is one I made for Wib's room he loves yellow and I thought the symbols suit him, altohugh I think I got wisdom a little bit wrong, the two boxes should be under the sticky out bit, grr.

Acrylic and Felt Tip

This next one I have made for my Bedroom, May paints are running really low and I'm almost out of all the colours so I tried to use up bits. I may make this one again when I get some more paints as the orange bit and dark green seemed a really good idea at the time but I'm not so sure now. This is my hippy sun.

Acrylics

I had to go to the library today to take some books back, but ended up bringing a load home with me and as the Co-Op is just over the road I had to go in to get some vegan doughnuts.... mmm Custard vegan doughnuts, sweet awesomeness with custard treasure, oooh with coffee and dunking and.....sorry I digress. Where was I? Yes, I got a loads of cool looking books out (and doughnuts) and I will try to do a drawing a day.

The Books I took Out

Hey, no such thing as reading too many vegan cookery books. the rest are all art, they had crafting ones too, but I think seven books is enough for now. I started on the Fantasy Art book right away, I've not even got to the instructional bits yet and felt a bit of creativity come over me, so here is my charcoal wizard. He doesn't look very happy but I'm kinda pleased with him.

Charcoal and pencil

I've never really drawn people before in my life, except piss take pictures on the guild website so this is my first real attempt, and boy how hard are eyes and noses to draw?

I'm going to Merry Hill tomorrow and will hopefully get some more acrylics AND finally get some glass paints, can't wait to try glass painting, I've been saving up coffee and jam jars to practice with.

Spoon Challenge - Skyline.

After trying for hours upon hours trying to draw a skyline with rulers and many colours and funky buildings and hating it, I just gave up and went back to my trusted charcoal and drew some blocks, and actually, I kinda like it. It took about two minutes to complete. Hehehe 

So here it is, my Skyline with purple stars.

Spoon Challenge- Cats

I may do another cat picture tomorrow, I want to do something with colours too. But it depends on how Wibby is doing really. Seems he is getting worse, I suck at looking after him too though, I've known him since 1999 and never seen him poorly before.

Anyway, here is my picture. I really enjoyed using the charcoal for the first time

Charcoal and watercolour pencil

Photo taken by me 17/03/14

Daseep is a Sumatran tiger at Dudley Zoo, and was recently the poster child for Global Tiger Day, I am also one of her adopters. Although my charcoal drawing doesn't really look like her, (I just do not have the skill to copy her markings although I did try) she was my inspiration for this drawing. The 'squiggle' next to the eye is Chinese for tiger.

I adore tigers, I am tiger crazy, with the small Sumatrans like Daseep here my favourite. But they are so rare now, with poachers and the destruction of their habitats (this is why we stay away from palm oil kids) in as little as 20 years there may not be ANY tigers left. I will write a piece on this soon, but for now I urge you to read this website http://www.21stcenturytiger.org/ for more information on tigers and what this wonderful charity are doing to try and ensure they do not become extinct.