Birthday Envelope 2023 design

 Its another one of those "might as well post this even though its not what ever this season is from" post. Since the way it looks it really doesn't matter. It really could look like any season themed stuff. Well, its actually for a fall birthday but then it could be as I said before any season except winter I guess. Its yet more envelope art. Yay! This time we have a teddy bear on a swing theme. Turned out really cute. As usual I drew it quickly with blue pencil, covered it with white acrylic and added some colour with coloured pencil and marker. Very nice! 

 Also I think my slightly secret really big experimental project its at its half way point. I think I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. The editing stage will go quite fast depending how many personal tasks are going to get in the way since the yard work is nearing its new season of "must do". That and other things I have to complete as well. Again I hope its not all for nothing since I did put in a lot of time and effort in completing this personal project. Finger's crossed and lots of prayers.

Easter bunny envelope 2022

Looks like I'm catching up! Yay! 

Alright the last few year's I have been working on a secret personal project and was too busy with making homemade cards for friend and relations. So what I usually do is make a little something like decorating an envelope instead. So I drew I little something quickly and added a bit of colour to it. 

Hope you like my cute little busy Easter bunny transporting a very large decorated egg. Of course decorated with the address of a friend. For personal privacy, I deleted most of the address. 

I used a simple blue drawing pencil for easily erasable mistakes and great for quick sketches, used coloured pencils and markers to add the colour. 

 

 

 

Sorry I posted this a bit late for Easter time but it is still April after all. 

Also, now available, you can now see my previous card in my personal web site. As always just go to the menu at the side of this blog. 

Available for purchase you can now buy this lovely skate board featuring a dynamic little gecko packing POW! He's a Karate expert. I drew him many years ago for a friends profile as a gift. Edited and coloured in a digital image program. 

Thanks for visiting! 😊👍

Spring gnome Easter card 2021

 Featuring another homemade greeting card from a few years ago cause I'm doing the best I can to catching up on my "show n tell" stuff here on my blog. 

This one features a cute spring gnome, not a leprechaun, holding up a lilly of the valley flower stock for you. I know what you're thinking, but its a gnome, all right? 

I made a drawing of my character and then traced it on to a separate piece of specialized paper. I think it was either water colour paper or a piece of card.  I used coloured pencil and markers to add colour. For the background I made that on water colour paper and painted that with water colours and maybe a bit of acrylic as well. They turned out pretty pleasing and gave me that happy feeling like it was meant to. Then cut out my gnome with an exacto knife, carefully gluing and then placed it on to its background. It's been a few years so if I remember correctly I had already cut it into a card before painting? Or did I place that on some other folded card? Oh well none the less I did put it all together and wrote a few nice words of Easter greetings for a good friend. I also decorated a nice envelope to go with my card but I didn't have to make the envelope this time. I guess I had one on hand that didn't get ruined for one reason or another. 

Oh and oh yeah, I came up with the gnome theme since the last few years gnomes seemed to be popular. Thought it might make a fun card for someone. I still see a few gnome themes, just not sure how popular they still are.

Anyways I hope you enjoy it and gives you a bit of joy. 😊 Most things in the world today, do not. 😔

As always will be also be placed in my personal web site in the future for viewing. 

 

 Some original drawings. 🔻

 

 

 

 Inside of card. 🔻

 

 

 Back of envelope. 🔻

Front of envelope. 🔻

 

 Front of greeting card. Saved the best for last. 😉🔻

 

 

Birthday card with Porcupine and flowers 2020

 As usual I'm a bit late on posting the latest things. 

Unfortunately because of personal chaos of completing many, many tasks this year and the lose of my beloved cat Meetso, the thought of my friend's birthday got lost in the fray.  Hopefully I can do my best next year to remember. 😕I marked it on my calendar to make sure. Better make sure its on next's year's calendar too.

Here we have a lovely card I partially repurposed for a friend's fall birthday. The original birthday greeting card was a bit too ordinary so I decided to customize it was a cute porcupine drawing and painted it with some of the flowers already featured on the card. It made sense to have the flowers stuck all over his quills. They make a handy friendship flower holder don't they?

Drawing is one of a kind, sketched by me on tracing paper. I wasn't sure at first as to how I was going to place the drawing onto the card. So this is why its on tracing paper. 

Painted with water and acrylic on water colour paper after being placed and glued onto a greeting card. Pretty, but now enhanced to be even better. 

 

 

Will post it soon in my personal web site. 

Thanks for viewing!

Finished Dreaming Poodle night shirt

 Again, hello world and blog. Like I posted in my other blog, its been awhile. I know. I always say that, but I have been busy with a personal project. Hoping that it will pan out. 🙏But the way the world is right now, makes me wish I could leave the planet for something better. A planet without AHoles! I ask my self every day lately, "do I even have a future? Is there a point?" "Is there anything for anyone? "I really hope that mister constipated P is not going to wreak the whole world with his selfishness.  Rich people at the top who feel have the right to "pull the strings" make me sick!" 😡You know who you are!!! You will pay by your own hand! Then you will ask"what was the point?!"

Anyways here is how that Dreaming Poodle Night shirt turned out. Very beautifully and just what I needed. Hopefully I will get to make more of these but it seems to get harder and harder to find the time to make personal things for my self. But still going to try. 

Again, I had purchased a nice extra large magenta tank top or well, a plus size. Because I like loose for sleeping. Normally I wear an extra large for day time use shirts. I made a cute drawing of a poodle sleeping and drew some novelty text to enhance my design. Hand printed it onto the tank top. Then hand painted as well as airbrushed the whole thing in fabric acrylic. Finished it by clear coating it.Wore it quite comfortably last summer. 😊

 

 

 

See previous posts regarding this project.  👚👚

Dreaming Poodle night shirt "The making of" Part2

 Some more lovely pics of my night shirt. They're pretty much done in these pics only some details to be added. Will be show later in the final part of the project. You can see this time there was a lot more airbrushing that was applied. Makes it come alive doesn't it? BTW I'm taking advantage of the colour that's already there for my starting point of the shirt illustration.

 

 

 

 

See previous post for how I started off with this project.  As always hope you like it. 😊

Dreaming Poodle Night Shirt origional drawings and some work in progress

 First off Happy New year. Hopefully it will be a better year to come but well you know. I'll keep out the negativity because there's enough of it to go around and we certainly don't need more of it and or around here anyways. 

Going to post some new stuff. Just a hint of it for now since there's a lot of it to show. I actually completed this months ago but I find my self always busy completing something. 

Its of a night shirt with a sleeping dreaming poodle on it. Its both airbrushed and hand painted. I decided to make one since it so hard to find one at a fair price these days. I decided to match it with a pair of I think they're shorts or capri style of PJ pants which also have a doggy theme to them. I'm too lazy to find out what they are for sure. The painted image character and text was made on to a extra, extra large tank top for plus size people for personal comfort. I prefer loose fitting especially for sleeping in. My actual size I prefer is large to extra large fitting for normal daytime use.

Also in the to do list update the links in my personal website regarding past works of holiday cards. Oh well. 

 

Some text I made for the shirt. 🔻

Dreaming poodle drawing 🔻

Some text painted on the back of the shirt. 🔻

Some more text in progress for the shirt. 🔻

semi-homemade Christmas bells and angel greeting card 2019

 Another homemade greeting card from last season no doubt. Well semi-homemade. I found this old unused card (probably purchased years ago in the 80's) one time while organizing some stuff. It was still in great shape but a little boring in my opinion. So I decided to jazz it up with a cute angel character since this was a Christmas themed greeting card. Since there was a strong theme of bells also, I drew the little sassy angel character carrying a much too large bell on a piece of tracing paper first. I did this so I can make sure the character would fit on the card and not take up too much space. Then as usual I redrew and traced the character on a piece of card stock and as usual coloured it up. I cut it out and, finally pasted it on and there we go. But I found out that there was no envelope with the card. So I had to make one with what ever I could find. I was lucky enough to score some wrapping paper with the theme of Christmas bells on a shelf in the basement, long forgotten too. Perfect! Made the envelope and placed some white paper on the one side so I could write the important stuff such as mailing address and other. Done! 

I will not show it in the usual spot in my personal site but will feature a link to this post there since this card is only semi-homemade. 

 🔺This is the original sketch of the sassy angel character I made on tracing paper with blue pencil. 

A great pencil to use for sketching drawings of all kinds. Makes it easier to erase and not leave too many strong marks. 😊

 🔺While working on this card I remembered the movie "Its a wonderful life" and the part of the little girl's dialogue in the movie. " Teacher says....Every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings."  Anyways I used mostly markers, some coloured pencils and a touch of a special metallic marker. The gold one obviously. I used some kind of tissue paper for the speech bubble so I could get that "see though" look. 😊

 

 🔺The front of the envelope. Address and embellishments done in gold metallic markers with a touch of red. Personal parts of the address removed. 😊

 

 Also a small update to some of my links in the side menu. Now usable. LOL 😛

 

homemade Fall Birthday card 2019

 A lovely birthday card I made last year for a friend. She loves these types of whimsical style cards and I had a enjoyable time creating it. Also makes a great portfolio and memory piece.

Featuring animal friends of the forest celebrating a fall birthday with all the trimmings. 

The card its self is made with coloured construction paper. On it I free handed a drawing with a coloured pencil and later added detail such as shading with you guessed it more coloured pencil and a bit of marker to make things pop. 

 

First I free-handed an image in a yellow pencil to make it stand out. 🔺

 Second phase. Starting to add shading. Finding my way around the card too. 🔺

 Third phase. Really starting to take shape. Got to keep on working. 🔺

 Forth phase. Just about done. 🔺

Using white coloured pencil here is relatively easy here.  

 All done and added the inside part of the card. 🔺

 

Then I placed the image illustration on a piece of some kind of white card stock I had on hand. I can't remember what it was because it was a while ago but I'm pretty sure I got it out of my box o bits and pieces. That's where my small pieces of leftovers go when I finish a project. Comes it handy and less environmental waste. 

 

Added a cute message and other things of which I will not share for privacy reasons. Mostly created using marker and some coloured pencil 🔺

Since I didn't have an envelope on hand I simply made one out of a white sheet of paper. It seem to be the right size and was pretty convenient. Then I put on the address and decorated it a bit with a bit more forest whimsy. A cute trouble making black squirrel all decked out with a birthday hat and present/gift a squirrel can only provide. 

Added a cute but rascally squirrel on the envelope along with important info which I'm not disclosing for privacy reasons. If your wondering about the blue colour on the black squirrel is because to provide a simulated sheen to his fur🔺After all black squirrels are not just black when their fur shines in the sun, you can see shades of colour. Most people might not notice that detail but that's alright. Since I'm qualified I can bring that up for those that are interested in those type of details. 

Hope you enjoyed my latest piece. Artwork will be uploaded to my personal web site soon.Providing that I still get to keep it. Considering where every thing is going these days with the turmoil. 

God bless and keep the peace! 

New Moon Bear set

Now out New Moon Bear set. I actually finished this one months ago but just decided to share it now. I decided to delay sharing this version because of personal use at a new "merch store" I'm trying out and experimenting and I wanted first crack at it. Its mine after all. 😉
The original version was a sketch I made years ago probably while bored or on a break onsite. I then illustrated it in traditional form and made a small Photoshop file for use on my personal site years ago. And now its also available in clip art vector form and in my new "murch store". Links will be provided below the illustrated sample/link. 

😷Masks ⏰Child's clock ⌚Child's watch 👕Child's sleep shirt 💠Poster 🎁Blanket and there's more......

Please note that the website priced these for my products and not me.

Proceeds go to the ending of mooching off my parents and gaining my own house and out of my parents. 😉 In other words helps to pay off expenses. Thank you! 😊

Easter images on an envelope 2018

Its almost Easter and oh tomorrow Spring Yay! For once I'm actually sharing something that is Easter and spring related. Some lovely rough drawings of various spring related characters on an envelope that I drew on. The greeting card was store bought this time and for the same good friend. 
Drawings done in black pen. No extra colour added this time. 
See last post for more card related stuff. 

Sign Man Set 10

Sign Man Set 10. Now out there. The gradient version and the last of these sets. 
Soon to be viewed on my personal site as well. 
Enjoy!

Sign Man Set 5

Sadly Fall is already here. 👎😔Only a few more months until SPRING! YAY! 😍
Anyways here is the Sign Man set 5, the non gradient version. A bit sidetracked because of other activities but now posted none the less. But then there was a renovation at one of the places I release at too soooo....   Here we go. 

Sign Man Set 9

Now out Sign Man Set 9 the gradient version. Actually been out for quite awhile now. Just haven't really had the time to post. Soon in my personal web site as well.  😎

Sign Man set 7

Sign Man set 2 and 7 are out now. 
Enjoy. 👍😃

 

Sign Man Set 2

Now out Sign Man Set 2. The one with out the gradients of course.

Sign Man Set 6

Now out, the gradient version of Sign Man Set 1 marked as number 6. Its marked 6 since that's how I have it in order of completion. Its as simple as that. 😉

Sign Man Set 1

Finally out there after much delay but well worth the wait I think. A simple project originally that grew over time. 
Its basically a paper Sign Man character for use with multi purpose media advertising in many lovely poses. This is a simple version with no gradient added. The other versions coming soon. 

Oh in case your wondering I didn't place it in the "new artwork" category cause I'm waiting to issue the image with gradients for that. Coming soon of course. 🐱

Uploaded

Earlier drawings of the Little ballet girl now uploaded to my Flicker account. You can find the links in my Life drawings section of my personal web site. 
Uploading soon, my completed painting. I'm pretty pleased with it. Hope she like it.

A little something old. Fandome wise.

How do you like my new pillow/cover? 

Finally got this very old project completed, based on a Garfield calendar I got when I was in my last year of grade school. Yup there it stayed all those years in the back of my little yellow plastic basket collecting years of dust together with other odds and ends of threads and maybe a few dreams too. The other half of the pillow still stuck in my head. Well the tiger patterned cover part. Anyways yeah 1988 all the way to 2015 and finished it a few months ago actually. Just never got around to showing it. The majority of the cross stitching was done on the cover but there was just a few spots that needed to be completed plus the cover. I had plenty of the tiger material left over when I actually had a costume made also in the same year as 88.

Oh the reason why I first made it was well, I was stuck in bed for a few weeks with the chicken pox. Well, more weeks then what was required to recover. That was because it was also a very traumatic time and year. It was just my luck that my mother had yet another bout with manic depression. It was horrible. I had to endure lots of strange behaviour and in later repeating years, all kinds of strange actions, sometimes scary and shouting from her, but that's another story. Then of course there was grade school its self. That always was a real hell hole to me.

I was a kid. Who in the world would stand up, be on my side and protect me from all this craziness? No one. No man as in humans anyways. ;) It was all tough nuggies for me.

Actually I did have for awhile my former next door neighbour and best friends but that welcome was busted after awhile. So much for knowing them since I was a toddler. So much for best friends forever. Life goes on. :_(  *broken heart*

Note;

Please note that my mother's issues are no longer that intense since her hysterectomy she had a number of years ago. That and the fact she now sticks to her meds which is just right for her needs, her and ours walk with Jesus Christ. But she still has her occasional weirdness. Don't we all.

Since being stuck in bed for so long, I had already completed other projects and ran out of the pre-designed needle point and cross stitching stuff. (Some of it hangs on the walls to this day. ) I needed more stuff to occupy and distract me instead of vegetating in front of the TV all day so I made my own design hence that's where the Garfield calendar came it.

Back then I was a pretty big fan of Garfield and besides the comics I was lucky enough to get, I tried to get at least one stuffed Garfield. But that was hard since I had no one to gift those to me. That was pretty much common for me. So many times I would make my own stuff based on my favourite things.

Yeah I eventually managed to get a teenie stuffed Garfield from someplace and an Odie from a Mc Donald’s.

I have those to this day sitting in my bedroom on display on an old handmade record (record player) desk I like to call it. 

This pic obtained from an Ebay user/seller who was selling the calendar. But yeah again I have the calendar myself. Just got too lazy to scan my own. Love this calendar. :)

The illustration I used for the project. Image from someone else's blog.

So yeah here it is my cute Garfield pillow based on a favourite scene from a Garfield Year of the Party 88 calendar. Hopefully I won't have any other really old projects to complete. But hay at least I don't give up on things. That has to count for something. Am I right? 

 What the back of the pillow looks like.

Various pics of my kitty Meetso with the pillow. 

He decided to look out the window for any unsuspecting potential victims. Aka tasty little morsels. ;)

 Hay? where's my face on a pillow?

Pillow featured soon on my personal web site as well.