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A couple of work things
What you're seeing here is Early Blue Violet (Viola adunca) above, and Prairie Crocus or Pasqueflower (Pulsatilla patens) below.These doodles aren't terribly exciting since they were designed more or...
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Sunflower Scaffold in tinted charcoal and Derwent Metallics
This week's Illustration Friday prompt is train.I like to train morning glories up my sunflowers. I like the way it looks, and since I'm container-gardening on a balcony the two-for-one in the same...
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Stripped Down in tinted charcoal
This week's Illustration Friday prompt is farewell.Goodbye, winter gear. Too bad, so sad. Don't come out again until next November.Of course, since this is Alberta it'll probably be out again next...
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Mountain Ash Buds in Art Stix
This week's Illustration Friday prompt is future.I'd kind of wanted to do something more detailed this time around, but my recovering wrist doesn't like to be out of the brace long enough for pen &...
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Yellow Warbler in Derwent Metallics
This week's Illustration Friday prompt is sweet.This fellow looks about as shaky as my sprained wrist could make it, but I'm tired of babying the wrist and not drawing so there you go.The tie-in to the...
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Old Hat in pen & ink
This week's Illustration Friday prompt is worn. This is an extremely quick doodle of my father's old, worn, and to be honest somewhat grungy Tilley hat.Oh, wait. Tilley hat, for the non-Canadians out...
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Equilateral in pen & ink
This week's Illustration Friday prompt is equality.Ok, this one threw me. I knew what the obvious current route was (at least amongst American participants who follow the news), but I deal mostly in...
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Bird in Hand in watercolour pencil
This week's Illustration Friday prompt is onomatopoeia. And yeah, I'm enough of a language nerd that I didn't have to look it up. The link's just for those of you who might be unfamiliar.The...
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Moustache in pen & ink
This week's Illustration Friday prompt is moustache.Professor Arboreous had just started to realise that his dendritic studies might be affecting other parts of his life...----------Ok, this is silly,...
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Thing in watercolour pencil, inktense, metallic watercolour, and pen & ink
And the kitchen sink, I suppose.This week's Illustration Friday prompt is creature, and this is...um...Well, to be honest, I just turned on the internet radio and freestyled it. Considering the period...
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Merry Christmas
Last post 26 October? October? Sheesh.Excuse #1: I've been rehabbing a very stubborn wrist injury that makes me shaky if I try to have too much fine muscle control for too long. Frustrating for someone...
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Alarm in watercolour
This was going to be for Illustration Friday's prompt time, but I was too late.Ironic that, I suppose.Posting it here anyway, since I've been so lazy lately about posting anything. This week's prompt...
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Chicken or egg in pencil crayon
This week's Illustration Friday prompt is beginning. I'll be honest, though, and say that this was more of an excuse to take the Koh-i-noor Hardtmuth colour pencils that I got for Christmas for a spin....
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Hermit Crab in pencil crayon
This week's Illustration Friday prompt is disguise.I often say "quick doodle", but this one actually was because I have other things I want to do this morning yet.As usual, the cheap scanner's picked...
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Work things
Why yes, I have been stuck at home drawing catkins because of the very cold weather.What else do you do when you're stuck at home by this endless winter but draw catkins? I mean, really?
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Phoenix in watercolour, pencil crayon, and metallic pen
EvolutionOut of the dusk a shadow, Then, a spark;Out of the cloud a silence, Then, a lark;Out of the heart a rapture, Then, a pain;Out of the dead, cold ashes, Life again. -...
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Snowshoe Hare in pencil crayon
This week's Illustration Friday prompt is survival. The problem with it for me is that since I usually go at this from a nature point of view (hazard of the job) it's pretty much all about survival....
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Um...
Ok, so Illustration Friday's prompt this week is retro, and that's not really my thing. As you would have seen if you'd watched me draw out something vaguely retro-ish and then completely mess with it...
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Behind the door...
This week's Illustration Friday prompt is contraption. And this is one of the neatest contraptions in nature, I think. The hiding place built by the trapdoor spiders.Trapdoor spiders make a fairly...
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Canola in watercolour
This week's Illustration Friday prompt is summer. And this is, quite honestly, a little fifteen-minute sketch done in front of the television last night. Most of those fifteen minutes were spent...
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