Fun-a-day

 All this January, I'll be taking part in  Fun-a-day Montreal (can see the facebook group here). The premise is simple: pick a project, do it every day in January, then show your work the following month in a big group show. 

I'll be doing a portrait-a-day.

So far so good... though I have to break out of the habit of being too shy to ask people I don't know so well if I can draw them (so have so many self portraits and pictures of Phil!). I've also got into the bad habit (already!) of leaving it late in the day so end up drawing, yet again, myself or Phil.
Anyway here are a few I like:

Phil reading in bed 9 January. Pen + photoshop

Self Portrait. 6 January. Pen.

Phil sleeping. 8 January. Pen.

another tablet doodle

I like the bamboo tablet. It grants me a new sense of freedom... it's quick and if I don't like something: Cmd+Alt+Z. Erased.
Bright bold colours.

Anyway, I'm in a good mood but somehow this popped out. (?) I started drawing the eye and then...

This is a bit more cheerful...

Bamboo tablet

coffee

feeling tired

confused

Got a bamboo drawing tablet for crimbo... thought I'd give it a whizz... what ya think?

Christmas cake

Merry cocoa-powder, marzipan, chocolate drop robins!

Cafe Rico

Intaglio print of the lovely, waxy plant at Cafe Rico.

cafe rico

CHRISTMAS TIME!

 It's CHRISTMAS TIME.... lino cuts:

I do like the christmas squirrel to hang on your tree!

PRINTMAKING

Hello.

I've been taking a printmaking course one evening a week for the past 10 weeks. I've loved every minute of it and have learned a lot - I had no idea how many different types of printmaking there are!
Since we only had 3 hours a week, we only managed to cover 2 different types of printmaking: lino cuts and intaglio.

Here are some of the images I've made:

Whippet - lino cut

Oyster mushrooms - lino cut

smoking in the park - intaglio

smoking in the park - lino cut and watercolour

on the bench - lino cut

BEARD - lino cut

singing in parc lafontaine - lino cut and watercolour

autumn leaves - lino cut