Angels are watching

This is the quick work for this week. I found a photograph with the sweetest looking little girl and I made her an angel (with permission). She is 10X12 on bristol paper using 6H, F, and 4B. She is going to be one of the small drawings for the ColourArt Window on March 1st.

I went to a cafe in Winmalee this week to relax, have a coffee and draw in peace. The managers came over to see what I was doing. They have asked that I draw all their employees to put on the wall. That is different, but sounds like fun. A gentleman there wanted me to draw his wife as a surprise also, but when I went back yesterday to get a photo he wasn't there. (Email me please if you check the blog).

While I have the household smelling of apples, our apple tree was very abundant this year so making lots of applesauce and apple pies, I am back to the dragons.

I will be in South Australia next week drawing with four little darlings (my godchildren), so posting will run a bit later. Art lessons for all the kids, meetings with Austistic Society, and everything else my girlfriend has lined up for me will fill the hours.

All this talk about Dragons

For awhile now I have been mentioning working on illustrations for a children's book on dragons. I am finally getting some final drawings ready for the author. Getting what is in her mind into mine and on paper has been a learning curve. Today is all about the dragons and pieces are coming together.

My biggest hurdle was making an anatomy for the creature. I have never drawn fantasy pieces and needed to make this one move for the different things he does in the story. Also with being photorealistic in most of my drawings, I couldn't put too much detail into illustration so many sketches are on the dining room floor.

They will all come together in the end and there has been a lot of learning in the process I would never have pursued otherwise. The author is self-publishing so she can pretty much do what she has pictured in her head all these years of writing this series of stories (yes, she has plans for more). Challenges and going after dreams is what life is all about and this idea of hers is helping both of us with that.