Ok, I finally did it, I took my Wild Girl Drawing of Amy and I made it into a print…which means I can print off as many as I like of her in whatever colour I like. Just so you understand the printmaking process, I had to print about 20 of these and every time I did the next one I did some more etching. The process of making a plate in printmaking can be slow. Some people are satisfied with the first edition. I myself know when I have my “Supreme” Print and will keep printing and keep etching until I find myself there. It take a lot of rubbing back of the ink, a lot of paper and a lot of love love love. This is my Supreme Print of AmyLee. Can’t wait to frame it up for a competition in printmaking.
This is not the finished drawing, however it is some of the drawing so far. This is the drawing half finished and a mock up of where I want it to go. My drawings take a long time to do. This will the first in a series I am doing. So expect to see this image change of the next few weeks. Thank you to my muse Amy Lee as she is my Lady inspiration. She inspires me with her eyes. This is a drawing that I have photoshoped colour onto , put a back ground in and then posterized it. It is made up of three layers and then merged. I am no expert at photoshop. But this is a drawing merged with a photoshop landscape. I am just playing around, doing art digitally and its so much fun!
This is Amy-Lee Foley With her lovely photos as reference: / / With her appeal: Play with Me Journal Images used with permission and copyright to Amy-Lee. 5.5×8.5 / Graphite.
This is a drypoint etching. I am currently working on this etching some more. This is one of the prints I did today. I will be printing more and changing this in the future. For now this is the result of hours of scratching away into acetate and hours of printing. I am still in my printing overalls and I can smell the ink. Ohhhhh, you say, but God I love it! Ink under my nails, ink in my hair, ink smell, ink on my face…..if I could I would camp out in the print room. I am a printmaking Junkie! Billy
The lovely Amy is once again my muse for this three layered photograph. The first layer is a view from my hotel room at Surfers this year. / The second layer is Amy (thanks Ams) / The third layer is a cropped picture from my Hundertwasser book. Then they are each put together. Some more transparant than others. / After that I saturated the colour and made them one hue. / Then I worked on Amy’s eyes to bring them out. / After which I of course resized the whole thing and voila! We are ready for uploading. This will be for my drawing class at school this year. I have to come up with six drawings for first term. This will be number four mock up. If you would like to help me and particpate in my assignments for the year…I need close up photographs of girls lying down to the side as seen in my other works. I am happy to draw you and make you into a masterpiece which I hope to exhibit by the end of the year. / / Billy,BillyLee, Belinda Nye,
WOODLAND MAGIC SERIES Pen and Ink Drawing Original Available A5- Black Matt- £30 + P&P Inspired by the talented and Magical Amy-lee Foley / Reference used with permission as parts of the Bubblers Portrait Group If you would like a fun illustrated portrait commissioned for yourself, family or friends, please drop me a b-mail, for an original A5 illustration in a Matt (Black/White/Cream) I charge £30 + P&P and can incorportate your own themes and ideas- Other prices on application This series is still in progress- Others in this series so far / Woodland Day Dream / Dryad / Woodland Charm / Woodland Whisper / Woodland Queen / Woodland Nymph My 26th upload for the 1000 Girls in 100 Days Project (22nd Nov 2009- Free Topic) / 10 Artists, 100 Days, 1000 Works / Follow this exciting Blog here….. / 1000 GIRLS IN 100 DAYS
This is the first edition. I made 20 yesterday. HOwever I feel this plate can be pushed to a whole new level. So I will be working on this plate and re-uploading it in a week or two. I love this new series of plates I am doing in the print room. I love exploring the image in a drawing, then a print and perhaps next year a painting. I love doing my girls in landscapes…..I hope you like this….it pairs up with the “Dreaming of LIfe” etching. I hope to have a show next year so I am working hard on these prints. UPDATED WITH EDITION 3 on 6/8/08 / VIEWS 493 TO DATE 21/11/09 This print is inked up with different coloured inks and then rubbed back carefully to get the different effects of colour. FOLLOW THIS LINK TO SEE HOW ETCHING IS DONE AND SEE OTHER ETCHES BY MYSELF AND OTHER FABULOUSE REDBUBBLE MEMBERS Belinda
WOODLAND MAGIC SERIES 1 Sale to date- Small Poster Print Original available A6- Cream Matt- £20 + P&P Inspired by a picture of Amy-lee Foley / Kindly used with permission for the Bubblers Portrait Group. Thank you Amy for being such a charming, sweet muse If you would like a fun illustrated portrait commissioned for yourself, family or friends, please drop me a b-mail, for an original A5 illustration in a Matt (Black/White/Cream) I charge £30 + P&P and can incorportate your own themes and ideas- Other prices on application This series is still in progress- Others in this series so far / Woodland Nymph / Woodland Day Dream / Woodland Whisper / Dryad / Woodland Queen / Woodland Princess
Watercolour pencil on watercolour paper 2009 Portrait of Amy-Lee Foley for a Bubbler’s Portraits challenge.
This is a pastel drawing of AmyLee, She is currently traveling around Australia…so I called it Amy’s Travels.. (its not an Australian landscape though, I just made up the landscape from my head…..) This is an A1 Size Pastel. Its my first complete pastel, usually I do watercolour and ink as well. I found the pastels a challenge. I only hope I get better at it. I love the colour though…its been fun. I will make more improvements on this pastel. For now this is it…and when I am completely finished I will just reload it here. Thank you Belinda
Amy-lee is a redbubble member. I have taken this photograph with her permission and made it into one of my digital portraits. I must have done it 10 times before getting this one. The colours have to be just right…what do you think. Any changes needed! Oh here is the link to Amy’s self portrait that this was taken from..her art is wonderful and she is a beautiful girl / http://www.redbubble.com/people/artisticamylee/art/630969-1-portrait#comment-2546295
A1 Canton Paper, ink, pastel, charcoal and conte. 623 views as of 21/11/09 Arletta from the Pay It Forward Group: ““First of all, I love the colors; second of all, I love what the turbulence in the hair represents – the emotional content of the piece. And, I don’t know, it’s beautiful. I’m not an art critic! But, to me, this piece is so full of frenetic energy and the want hiding behind it.” This is a colloboration with Amy, I will post her picture she did of herself here….. Amy This is my muse “Amy”, today I did this drawing of her…I completed it in one day..it is Charcoal and Pastel….I will download the picture of me in the studio today, even though I look horrible…so you can see me at work. This is my 7th drawing for the year. First semester you have to complete 6 pieces so I have done well completeting NO. 7. ! / This is now been done in a drypoint etching print..here it is ….
Fineliner on 220g watercolour paper. Featured in Finks of Inks. Amy-lee :-)))
WOODLAND MAGIC SERIES Pen and Ink Drawing Original Available A5- Black Matt- £30 + P&P Inspired by the talented and Magical Amy-lee Foley / Reference used with permission as parts of the Bubblers Portrait Group If you would like a fun illustrated portrait commissioned for yourself, family or friends, please drop me a b-mail, for an original A5 illustration in a Matt (Black/White/Cream) I charge £30 + P&P and can incorportate your own themes and ideas- Other prices on application This series is still in progress- Others in this series so far / Woodland Day Dream / Dryad / Woodland Charm / Woodland Whisper / Woodland Queen / Woodland Nymph My 26th upload for the 1000 Girls in 100 Days Project (22nd Nov 2009- Free Topic) / 10 Artists, 100 Days, 1000 Works / Follow this exciting Blog here….. / 1000 GIRLS IN 100 DAYS
I have made a mega sale. Huge Extra Large Hug to the person who invested in my art work today. I can’t wait to see you with my canvases on the Buyers Booth Page. As an artist I can’t tell you how a sale can validate all that you do. Yes, we do it because we enjoy it, we do it because , well we just HAVE to for our emotional well being. But seriously, when you make a sale as an artists it just gives you that extra boost to go out and pick up the brush and to keep going with gusto. So thank you for buying my art. Big Hugs. BillyLee THEY PAVED PARADISE / and / CITYSCAPE GIRL / Big thanks to all of Redbubble for helping me to Market myself in the big wide world of ART! BillyLee, Belinda Nye, Billy CLICK ON THIS AND TELL ME IF ANYTHING HAPPENS
WE ARE MAKING A BOOK FULL OF THE VERY BEST ILLUSTRATIONS OVER AT INTERNATIONAL SUPERHEROES OF DRAWING, ILLUSTRATION & WORLD DOMINATION / To be in with a chance to be featured in the book, just enter this here challenge with your best work that fits the group criteria. / BOOK CHALLENGE Never heard of us ? Well it may be time to join up and have some fun, we have weekly & monthly challenges, weekly features and lots of cool prizes and projects (like exquisite corpse and the worlds longest illustration). We are also one of bubble’s key host groups, so lots of traffic expected :)) The book is being made on BLURB for 0% markup, only blurb profits, but it means the lowest price for our members to get a PUBLISHED work in a superb ART BOOK. / Of course you can then buy and resell for a profit, take orders, arrange book signings (whatever your new found fame dictates). Hope to see you there- xxxx
CHISHOLM FRANKSTON OPEN STUDIO END OF YEAR PARTY!!… YOU ARE ALL INVITED TO THE END OF THE YEAR ST…
YOU ARE ALL INVITED TO THE END OF THE YEAR STUDIO PARTY FOR THE ARTS DEPARTMENT AT CHISHOLM FRANKSTON. I WILL BE THERE TO MEET AND GREET. GREAT NIGHT FOR ALL….DRINK AND FOOD…..MUSIC…...WONDERFUL ART BY TALENTED STUDENTS….SEE PAINTING STUDIO, LIFE DRAWING STUDIO’S, PRINTMAKING STUDIO, ILLUSTRATION AND SO , SO MUCH MORE. VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE ART PIECE ON THE NIGHT AND SEE YOUR FAVORITE ARTISTS WIN A PRIZE….OR BUY ART WORK AT AMAZING PRICES. IF YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT BEING AN ART STUDENT OR YOU ARE A GALLERY DIRECTOR…....OR PERHAPS YOU JUST LOVE TO LOOK AT ART. THIS IS MY LAST YEAR AT CHISHOLM AS I GRADUATE A FULL FLEDGED ARTIST! IT HAS BEEN THE BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE! COME AND SEE WHY ITS SO WONDERFUL…..INTRODUCE YOURSELF TO ME. I WOULD LOVE TO MEET YOU. ALSO, IF YOU TAKE ANY PHOTOGRAPHS OR IF YOU COME ALONG ON THE NIGHT ..THIS COMING FRIDAY 13TH NOVEMBER…PLEASE WRITE YOUR COMMENTS UNDERNEATH AFTER THE FABULOUSLY WONDERFUL EVENING AT CHISHOLM. BILLYLEE
Well another art show is done and dusted. I had a lovely weekend exhibiting and being a part of such a wonderfully conducted art show. The Somers Area is a real delight to visit. The beach is gorgeous and the local cafe/store has the best food. We had lunch at drop off and pick up of art work. Alas I did not sell at the show but I went with a group of artists and each and everyone did sell there. Congratulations to the following red bubble artist , FAYE, LISA, KAREN and Roz. You all did wonderfully. Of course it isn’t easy picking up ones work with a group of people and finding out you are the only one who has to carry work back to the car. Its a gutwrenching. Then on the way home I thought to myself, not only is is gutwrenching but its actually very brave. YES, its BRAVE to put yourself out there. Its brave to display your heart on your sleeve and wait for approval. Because , lets not lie to ourselves…....selling is approval! You can certainly say all the things, like exhibiting is fun, being out there is great, belonging to such a talented community is lucky. YES, it is, I do agree. ARtist David Larwill was in the show and he is famous…so its great to be associated with such an artist. BUT, not selling is always a disappointment because you have to keep going. Success and art are a test sometimes. You have to market yourself, put yourself out there, keep entering shows and looking for the key to success. You have to be resiliant and brave. My friends were all happy and satisfied, I was not. Tomorrow I pick up the brush and do more art. Its all I can do. Now a days I get down if I don’t. I had a lovely time in Somers this weekend. Congratulations to the parents who put that show on. I was impressed with the organization and the dedication. Not to mention the friendliness of all the people who belong there. I hope to get an invite back next year. What’s next then I say to myself, well Sorrento Art show here I come. Tomorrow I am taking a few prints down to the doctors office and she is framing them for her Practice walls. Sometimes you just gotta give it away to feel good again. Tomorrow I give a gift of my art. THAT will make me feel good again and then I will go home and make some more. Thanks to all my art friends on the Peninsula. Billy / Mothers Day – Oils – $350
Watercolour pencil on watercolour paper 2009 Portrait of Amy-Lee Foley for a Bubbler’s Portraits challenge.
WOODLAND MAGIC SERIES 1 Sale to date- Small Poster Print Original available A6- Cream Matt- £20 + P&P Inspired by a picture of Amy-lee Foley / Kindly used with permission for the Bubblers Portrait Group. Thank you Amy for being such a charming, sweet muse If you would like a fun illustrated portrait commissioned for yourself, family or friends, please drop me a b-mail, for an original A5 illustration in a Matt (Black/White/Cream) I charge £30 + P&P and can incorportate your own themes and ideas- Other prices on application This series is still in progress- Others in this series so far / Woodland Nymph / Woodland Day Dream / Woodland Whisper / Dryad / Woodland Queen / Woodland Princess
This is Amy-Lee Foley With her lovely photos as reference: / / With her appeal: Play with Me Journal Images used with permission and copyright to Amy-Lee. 5.5×8.5 / Graphite.
Ok, I finally did it, I took my Wild Girl Drawing of Amy and I made it into a print…which means I can print off as many as I like of her in whatever colour I like. Just so you understand the printmaking process, I had to print about 20 of these and every time I did the next one I did some more etching. The process of making a plate in printmaking can be slow. Some people are satisfied with the first edition. I myself know when I have my “Supreme” Print and will keep printing and keep etching until I find myself there. It take a lot of rubbing back of the ink, a lot of paper and a lot of love love love. This is my Supreme Print of AmyLee. Can’t wait to frame it up for a competition in printmaking.
This is not the finished drawing, however it is some of the drawing so far. This is the drawing half finished and a mock up of where I want it to go. My drawings take a long time to do. This will the first in a series I am doing. So expect to see this image change of the next few weeks. Thank you to my muse Amy Lee as she is my Lady inspiration. She inspires me with her eyes. This is a drawing that I have photoshoped colour onto , put a back ground in and then posterized it. It is made up of three layers and then merged. I am no expert at photoshop. But this is a drawing merged with a photoshop landscape. I am just playing around, doing art digitally and its so much fun!
This is a pastel drawing of AmyLee, She is currently traveling around Australia…so I called it Amy’s Travels.. (its not an Australian landscape though, I just made up the landscape from my head…..) This is an A1 Size Pastel. Its my first complete pastel, usually I do watercolour and ink as well. I found the pastels a challenge. I only hope I get better at it. I love the colour though…its been fun. I will make more improvements on this pastel. For now this is it…and when I am completely finished I will just reload it here. Thank you Belinda
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