Flamingo Tee shirt.

Ok so I purchase this cheep tee cause I need a tee for mostly when its cold outside. For when its cold out side? Well ya, I like to wear a tee as an extra layer under my shirt when its winter. You know, layers?  But then I'll also probably wear it on a nice day too. You know, hot and sunny? 
So anyways, you know me, when I see a potential blank canvas, and well to me this is a blank canvas, I just had to paint something.  I decided to paint some flamingos on it. Reason, just felt like it. Just haven't gone to Florida in years and well flamingos pretty much fit the bill. Laughing gulls being more of favorite symbol of Florida to me second only to palm trees, white sand and warm weather. But somehow flamingos just seem to fit this tee. 
I decided just to freehand it instead of just putting some kind of guiding lines all over it and just went  at it. Using just pink acrylic fabric paint and memories of the birds applied the paint in a sketchy scribbly style. I went over some spots with more pink paint doubling the line thickness to produce the elision of highlights.  I tried to take advantage of the black tee and the look of the paint as best as I could. Could have finished it in one day but the paint was kind of old and had some difficulty getting it to flow out of the bottle.  So instead of getting frustrated, I just took a few days to finish it, letting some of it to dry while working on another spot. Eventually after completing it, I heat set it in the dryer. 
I think I achieved what I wanted and even got a bit of therapy out of it. 
Not totally realistic but you pretty much get what the point was.

 Meetso didn't really feel like posing that day so I kind of bribed him with some food. Little did I know, it appears he was sick for a year or so on and off. So who could blame him. Eventually in July the sheep hit the fan and poor Meetso was plugged up because of inferior food. He now eats a good quality food, with occasional natural treats, some kitty candy and the occasional wild caught food he him self he catches.  Oh and he finally got the hint of not eating the heads after loosing his meow due to a sore throat in August. Today he his back to his crazy affectionate kitten self. Well he's about 6 years old but he will always be my little kitten.  ;)

Available for viewing at my web site soon.

Now featured.

The Garfield pillow/cover is now also featured on my personal website. 
Also fixed or rather updated a link in the miscellaneous artwork section. You can now view past misc works.

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. 

Carved Style Easter egg set v2

The second installment of those wonderfully carved style Easter eggs v2 are hear. 
See previous postings to see what I'm talking about. As usual you may find it as well on my personal web site soon. 

As you can see its now available at ShutterStock.

In this version this time I had most of the intricate decoration on a arc design so that I could add an "Happy Easter" greeting as an option. Its a nice contemporary style and suites it well. A nice option for those that must have the greeting. 
I think in the future the limited font I made for the greeting might be nice as a full usable font. 


 

Carved style Easter Egg set now on my web site. Also spruced up a few things like my E-mails. Updated which e-mails are for what. As always my creative personal web site is located in the right panel of this blog under "My other lairs".

Carved Style Easter Egg Set

Well its finally here. A few months late but still worth it I think.

Inspired by those extremely fragile Easter eggs intricately carved by dentist drills. Chicken all the way to ostrich eggs are used. There a bit like those Faberge eggs only they aren’t as elaborately decorated with gold and what not.

For those that use Illustrator, I chose not to make or use that function we call the pattern function. I think it would have been too complicated for that anyways. So I guess it took longer. But then again it doesn't help to have to name every object and every layer. So tediously time consuming but necessary. Just wish there was something to help me name every layer and object faster. 

I have here first the basic egg. The second is the polished style and bonus a chocolate version. 

 The following are some interesting close ups.........

There is a second version in this set on the way but again I'm currently in the process of naming every object and layer. Again very tedious. Oh well. Well worth the quality in the end.

Also will be viewable on my web site soon.

Thanks for viewing. :)

Coming soon.

Yes its been awhile hasn't it? 
Coming soon. Some new intricate vectors. They're a few months late, but I think the wait its worth it.

Personal site update 2

Allrighty all fixed. My Personal site that is and the links to them. Every thing should work as planned. Hopefully. Let me know if anything is screwy, will ya guys? Come on? You know you want to. K'T's Creative Lair. Also located in the side panel marked under "My other lairs." There. No excuse to check it out now. Now go!

Personal site update

Finally my site host has provided new security certificates for my personal web site. Apparently it takes a few hours for it to kick in but we'll see. Hopefully there are no further issues. Will have to look and test tomorrow.

Cool treats set 3

Happy New year every one.  Hope every one had some great holidays? If you did, consider your self one of the lucky ones. Not every one is so lucky. Sadly. 

Anyhow we have a new vector to feature. Cool treats but as classic ice cream set using time honored real ingredients. Well vector graphics. But what ever. Enjoy. 

Also has any one had a chance to visit my newly moved personal web site. Its located in the links area of my blog on the side panel. Does it work alright? No certificate error? If so, just ignore it. Its the web hosters fault for not fixing this. Hopefully they fix it soon. In which case the latest vector is also now also viewable on my personal web site.

PS
If you noticed I have started to only post my vectors from the actual micro stock places. Its for added security.  I hope you understand.

Heads up

Ok now Cool treats set 2 now available on K t's creative lair. Yup my personal web site. Also updated a few of those animation links to the new web site standards since the Hoster did not allow for direct YouTube linking.

Cool treats set 2

Yes I know its winter practically but every one loves ice cream no matter the season. Well except for those dieting prudes who like to lie to them selves and say they only love frozen yogurt. Ick. Did you ever try vanilla frozen yogurt with chocolate sauce. Gagggooollla. Total deniers.
Anyways new to the coolection is a nice set of soft serve ice creams in your choice of flavours or if you prefer your choice of frozen dessert. I still say your still denying your self if you like FY. You only live once after all.
But then some people do love a good frozen custard. I wish we had those here.

Available soon on my personal web site as well.

a new home and a Sunny day

Found a new web hosting place, well I actually had it booked marked for quite awhile but never had to use it till now I guess. It was pretty confusing at first considering it was a bit more complicated to use compared to the old one, but thank God I figured it out eventually. Just finished putting it up at the new place but I noticed it needs a few tweaks or two. Not a problem. Will take care of those later and will place a redirect at the old site too soon as the old place gets up and running. Yup they're still down. Guess its a price to pay for being a bit too easy and popular. None the less I really like the new place, its fast, no advertisements and its been around for awhile which is really great cause you really never know with a new hosting place. They change so frequently and can be gone in a flash. Lets just hope this new place doesn’t have a policy of only giving you something for free for a month. Sometimes these rules are well hidden and have a bad habit of biting you back. Anyways here's the new location of my personal web site.

K_t's Creative Lair.

Oh and as a bonus, here's one original illustration for the latest book I worked on as posted from last time in another blog post. Enjoy. 

No GMO's set 4

Well looks like my website's down again. But then again that place has been having many other issues too. Looks like it may be time to find a new place for it. I would love to have a paid one but still can't afford to do that. But money can't guarantee that it would be stable any how.

Anyways here is the last set of the series No GMO's. 
Till I get a new site no personal website. Sigh.....

Now available!

Update. Finally! The second installment of  Sunshine the Lion cat is now out.
Go and check it out. Go, go go! ;)

The AdventurousSunshine

No GMO's set 3

Another No GMO's set vector collection for your viewing enjoyment. 
Enjoy. 

Available for viewing soon on my web site. 

No GMO's set 2

Another one of those new vector seals set I made based on this whole controversy of pure foods and foods made in a lab in a nice summery tomato format.  Enjoy.

No gmos set1

New vector yeay!
I decided the time was right to make some nice new vector lables based on all this GMO nonsense that other people try to make us eat. They also seem to think they own the copyright on life.
Last time I checked they are only people, not God. 

Anyways enjoy.
Oh yeah also may be viewed shortly on my web site as well.

Deco shelled face plate

Just perfect for summer vacation time, not that I'm going on a vacation any time soon. :(

Oh well but I have gone in the past and collected these wonderful shells from Florida.

I like to use them every now and then like this project for instance. But not all of them. I'd like to save some of them for reference after all. :)

Anyhow I had this really boring and ugly old light switch face plate I had to look at every day for several years now and I finally had it. Since I always wanted a tropical themed design for my house but currently can't, :( I decided to at least add my personal touch to at least my personal space. The bed room.

I took one brand new plain Jane light switch face plate and I first painted it with a special acrylic that simulated the inside of a shell. A sort of a pearly white look. I then glued an assortment of shells and arranged it in a certain pleasing way. Then finally clear-coated it with an acrylic gloss and for the finishing touches added some simulated pearls.

Now I have something to switch on with a bit of class. 

 Before^

 After^

 Some close ups

Encore of eggs

Tisket n tasket, one last look of my basket.......of eggs.  This is how they were meant to be seen.