Pretend People

Speedy Roadrunner

Love painting in the style of the epic Roadrunner vs Wiley Coyote. These were done in Sketchbook Pro in a couple of hours...made me want to watch cartoons. I love how simple the backgrounds were for those skits...nothing that could take away from the amazing physical comedy...but the starkness and graphic quality is just so fabulous.

Sketchy Musings

Well, the year is over...and I did make my goal...just not like I thought I would. I have in fact done a painting for every day of the year, if I count the the pieces I do at work that I obviously can't post.

Admittedly, the goal was to accomplish 365 paintings in my spare time, but with the constraints of the year, that didn't exactly happen. I did learn a lot this year though, and I think I'll keep going until I reach the 365 outside pieces.

This year my goal is a little more realistic. I'm signed up for The Sketchbook Project, which should be fun and it's just one book by April...a bit more manageable with all the other personal goals I've set.

With that...here's some more art

Pencil melted with soapy water and prismacolor on gessoed paper.

Speedy Characters

Some pushed characters...always fun. Back to backgrounds next, I think.



Speedy Fairy Tale Fabric

So, I found this site http://www.spoonflower.com/ where you can print your own fabric designs, and it got me thinking about patterning and such. So, for this set of 7, I gave a shot at some graphic patterning based on fairy tales...some obvious and others rather obscure. Don't know that I'll really order any of these as prints, but it was a good exercise in simplifying a graphic idea, and making a seamless pattern.

Snow White

Jack and the Beanstalk

Rumplestiltskin

East of the Sun, West of the Moon

Thumbelina

The Snow Queen

The Seven Ravens



Speedy Forest Critters

So help me....I WILL meet this goal by the end of the year....

yikes...

Here's a series I was playing around with as a set of alphabet flashcards...sort of inspired by woodcuts and old ink illustrations in classic fairy tale books.



Speedy Gothic

All black and white this week, I think. With an emphasis on Victorian/Gothic.

Cause it's almost Halloween.

And I can't resist that era anyway.

Final Speedy Serving

Last one...new theme time. 

Always the worst part...it's so much easier once I've figured out what I want to do.

This week was fun though...I'm relatively happy with all of them except the 'Epic Apple,'

so I consider that a successful week.

Onward.

Speedy Second Serving

Speedy Servings

Fruit this week. Why? 

Because.

Speedy Inky

Ink was loving me more than paint this week. What can ya do?