Showing posts with label pencil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pencil. Show all posts

summer smiles

Um, I’m wondering when I’ll wake up from this extended dream of a heat wave! I’m 100% loving that bare legs and sandals are on the menu everyday. Ok so the tubes are a glorified sweat fest and bed time leaves me groaning for an electric fan and wondering if sleeping outside on concrete is a feesable idea, but then hey!...I’m not complaining. Here’s a little summery illustration of mine to celebrate our little slice of summer. Hot air balloons always signal summer for me. In the same way the Coca Cola advert tells me it’s the beginning of the festive season, hot air balloons tell me it’s time to prepare the patio and and replace the sunglasses I lost the previous year. Praise God for such beauty and grace revealed in his creation under the warmth of the sun! I'll be back to more meatier posts soon. I've been a very busy girl!




i heart drawing

Yum Yum! I love Amy Borell’s hand sketched drawings. The free pencil line mixed with watercolour and coloured pencil gives them such a sweet, naïve charm. Looking through her illustrations reminded me of my default style of old. At uni I loved creating linear images with little bursts of texture and collage. Hmmm, perhaps it’s time to go back to basics. We’ll see...