I originally intended this shot to be a picture of my son holding onto these balloons and taking off, floating into up into the sky … a fantasy, sotybook sort of image. However, my daughter immediately grabbed these balloons from him and started running off. So, as it turned out this eded up having a more realistic look than the one I originally intended, but I thought it turned out pretty cute with the desaturated colors throughout, except for the colorful balloons. Sold 2 laminated prints to RB Members.
Sales of this Design? – 6 sales so far :) / / Shoes available at Zazzle ‘Asia Series’ card by Karin Taylor Here’s a painting close to my heart. I’ve done this one utilising ink, charcoal and acrylics, another sweet little asian girl in traditional japanese kimono enjoying the art of ikebana in a reverent pose on her knees
Sales of this Design? – 5 sales so far :) / / “Shoes available at Zazzle”http://www.zazzle.com/karin_taylor_zazzle ’’Asian Series’ card by Karin Taylor This dear little asian girl has stolen my heart! She’s so sweet and shy. She wears a traditional chinese costume with her feet slightly turned in. Flowers in her crazy ‘updo’ hair secured with a couple of chopsticks! Chinese Red Fan Girl stands before a warm glowing screen, patiently waiting for her little friend from Japan, ‘Little Blue Kimono’ to arrive. Chinese Red Fan Girl wears a pair of geta on her tootsies, a gift from ‘Little Blue’ The kanji symbols in the background on the screen translate into ‘One’s Dearest Wish’
/ “Now available as a LARGE print” Sales of this Design? – 3 sales so far :) / / Girl on Red Wall is from the ‘Asia Series’ of cards by Karin Taylor Girl on Red Wall is a mixed media production on canvas textured paper utilising ink, pastel, charcoal and acrylic in the rendering. It was a fun piece that has been popular, the original has already been sold to a doctor in Queensland, and prints requested overseas. It’s funny, the paintings you don’t think will be popular, are the ones that receive the most interest sometimes. I have grown to love Girl on Red Wall very much, and would now like to share her with you
Madison, my adorable 4 month old baby girl… so full of life and personality already. There is never a dull moment! Top 10 place in Those Expressions challenge, October 2009 Top 10 place in the Buyers R Us… group challenge Top 10 place in the Funny Face challenge Top 10 place in the Funniest Photo of the Week challenge Featured in LMAO ART – Your Funniest Work March 2009 Featured in Anything and Everything FUN 2008 Featured in That’s Funny! 2008
Sales of this Design? – 1 sale so far :) / / Mary Banksia Fairy Design available in shoes at Zazzle / / / Mary Banksia Fairy / on brown paper with white acrylic gesso / and black faber castelle felt pen, banksia leaves for wings / and pandandus palm for her dress Mary ate too much bush honey, which explains her googly eyes! / Mary Banksia Fairy TShirt
How many sales of this item so far – 1 sale / / I can Stand on My Hands Ladies Lace Up Shoes now available at Zazzle / I can stand on my Hands Children’s Shoes Slipons at Zazzle / Shoes Now Available at Zazzle I Can Stand On My Hands, etc!! by Karin Taylor – created for Drawing Day ‘08 / A pen and pastel drawing on brown paper coated in stripes of white gesso! / from the Kids Series / / / / / / /
Boots, our Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, and my daughter Hannah….. Being an only child she calls him her brother! Aged 8 years. Taken with Sony F717, ISO equiv 800, Sepia setting, unedited. Would make a lovely card for any occasion, Mothers Day, Thank You, Birthday, Thinking of You, etc…..... © Copyright 2008 Squealia, All Rights Reserved /
A free-range baby orangutan sucking its thumb in Singapore Zoo, Singapore. This critically endangered species demonstrates significant intelligence, with an ability to reason and think. The orangutan is closest relatives, sharing 97% of the same DNA as humans. I’ve been to Borneo (Dec 2007) and was shocked at the amount of jungle cleared to make way for palm oil plantations. Close your eyes, and imagine flying into Sandakan on the east coast – as far as you can see there are rows upon rows of palm trees. Rows upon rows. Then more rows upon rows. Then more rows upon rows. “Orangutans are one of the most critically endangered of the great apes, due to poaching and habitat loss. Based on the World Bank’s estimation that mechanized logging in the Kalimantan forest, (Indonesian Borneo), will result in its total loss by 2010, and other statistics stating that wild orangutans are disappearing at a rate of 5,000 orangutans per year, optimistic predictions give the orangutan ten more years before extinction in the wild.” (Source: Borneo Orangutan Survival UK http://www.savetheorangutan.co.uk/index.php) Taken with Canon 5D, ISO 1250, f5.6, 1/50th sec, 100-400mm L Series Canon Lens @ 400mm, handheld, no flash, Auto white balance. No post production. Featured in Canon DSLR Group, Image Writing Group, Animal Portraits Group & All animals Great and small Group (May 2009). Winner “Zoo Animals” challenge in the Animal Photography Group, June 2009. / Winner “Baby Animals” Challenge in the Women Photographer Group, July 2009. / Featured in “Baby Animals” Group July 2009.
Sales of this design – 2 so far / / / Littlest Elephant Love Links TShirt / / / A Mixed Media production on Aquarelle paper / original available @ $110 (unframed as is) / size of original 28.5cmx35cm / ink, pastel, acrylic, charcoal
/ I used candlewax, few different sized black marker pens, retractable pencils, charcoal white and black, ink and pastels on a small piece of timber to create “Happiness Always”......and that’s what I wish for everyone…. happiness always it could be for a newborn baby, just cheer someone who’s a little sad, or for a birthday ~ wishing someone happiness always is just a nice thing to do any time of the year :)
/ also available Elephant Love />Sales of this design so far – 2 sales / / / Framed – off white matt in walnut boxed frame / / Greeting Card Magic Elephant is a pencil drawing on A3 Cartridge paper (acid free) which I’ve altered slightly digitally, adding some sepia and pastel flourishes, along with an overlay. The Magic Elephant is another of my latest works in the “Connecting” series, i hope you like her….thank you for looking :) / Looked like this before I coloured it digitally
/ half coloured image, thanks to gottheshot friend and fellow bubbler for the idea Sales of this design? – 1 framed print sold / / / Binda an aboriginal name meaning ‘deep water’ / I originally drew Binda in pencil and coloured her later in Photoshop / this is a recent drawing I completed a couple of weeks ago / /
/ / pencil drawing of beachcombers / Beachcombers / a little drawing I created by hand a few weeks ago, I’ve just completed painting this one digitally, in time for Mother’s Day in Australia which falls on May 10 (just happens to be my birthday too :) Here’s the before shot: / / Karin (myself) and Sal (my mum) at Yamba on holiday in 1968
Sales of this design? – 2 sales Sweethearts is a pencil drawing which i’ve coloured digitally.. / I hope you like :)
Sales of this design so far – 2 sales / / / The Dream Maker below (click for more info) / here’s to all the wonderful girls in my life and here on Red Bubble :) ...thank you for all the times you’ve been there ! pencil drawing on paper, coloured digitally, additions made in photoshop
/ My friend Amy’s Tattoo Sales of this design so far – 2 sales / / Soul Sisters below (click for more info) / / / The little Dreamer sits in her garden enjoying nature all around, dreaming up new ideas using her big imagination! Created from a pencil drawing, coloured digitally and adjustments made in Photoshop.
Sales of this design so far = 3 sales / / / / original drawing / Two little japanese kokeshi’s contemplating life in the garden. Perhaps the older girl is the little one’s mother or sister, perhaps she is sensei passing down instructions on how to tend the flowers. The little one wears a floral kimono in keeping with the theme. A pencil drawing on paper coloured digitally.
/ original drawing on A3 acid free cartridge paper A drawing which has been digitally coloured, in which a little friend of the forest is overwhelmly touched by the beauty of a particular very old and majestic tree. She spontaneously expresses her love and gratitude with a symbolic hug, revealing her love for her surrounds during a moonlit walk. Just the thing for friends, children, nursery, birthdays, special occasions and something a little different perhaps for an unusual Christmas card.
/ / / original pencil drawing ...stayed up very late drawing “Nature’s Child”... you know when it’s time for a baby to be born, i think it’s very similar with art… the inspiration just comes when it’s ready…and sometimes that means drawing til 3am like i did with this one. ...the drawing took about 3 hours, and the digital colouring took about 5 hours today. ...inspired by some fantastic eyes i’ve seen lately, (drawn by people on RB) and the dear little willy wagtails…they are so cheeky…they aren’t authentic in colour here, because they are always black and white with little markings above the eye…but i have put their essence into the work hopefully. I think this is my favourite so far :) /
Sales of this design so far – 1 / / / Drawing of Moon Guitar available here / Calendar available here / / Ling Ling sits quietly observing nature by the light of the moon, so softly she strums her little moon guitar (yueqin) and as she does, the moon seems brighter, the fish jump in the pond, and all hearts combined quicken to the sound of little Ling’s songs…. Pencil on A3 Cartridge Paper (acid free) – Drawing 4 hours / Coloured digitally – Colouring 8 hours / Total time spent on piece – 12 hours
/ / “Beach Picnic” is a pencil drawing which I’ve coloured digitally, I hope you like this image with mother and daughter in similar sundresses. As a child we enjoyed beach picnics all the time, mum would make us special fried chicken (better than Kentucky Fried) and we would go out on the boat to a little island, where i would play with soldier crabs for hours on end, while dad fished and mum sunbaked… they were wonderful times. We also went on the annual Beach Picnic to Bonny Hills with the church and we were great friends with the priest back in those days who was a top water skier.. We would see so many things at Bonny Hills, sea snakes slithered past in the creek where we were swimming and there were amazing white clay deposits in the sand….hours of fun were had by all… not to mention we even had a little mass there… top fun :)
Summer Breeze a beautiful poem by the same title by a dear friend of mine Anne Van Alkemade / Inspired by the song Summer Breeze / by Seals and Croft Also inspired by myself and my experience of having bugs and insects come to try and take up residence in my ears… scrabbling around in there, getting all comfy…while I’m going crazy…click beetles, houseflies and spiders so far have all tried this… lol This is a girl who has an affinity with nature, and as the summer breezes begin to blow here in Australia…....the animals are drawn to live in her hair thinking that it must be branches of a tree… yes, my hair’s that dry… :) I thought it a fitting one for summer, hope you like her… Pencil drawing took me about 3 hours / Digital colouring – 10 hours / Total time 13 hours
/ / I was thinking about when I was around 9 years of age see me at 9 / / ....and I was reminiscing about our pet Blue-ringed Octopus we kept in the fishtank…. he was only tiny, but provided hours of entertainment…when he got riled up, he would put on a fantastic colour show for us…but it occurred to me how hard it must be to be a venomous creature… because you wouldn’t get many hugs, even if you wanted them! / / We spent a lot of our days at Shelley Beach, Port Macquarie and dad caught many strange and wonderful things, which we kept in our saltwater tanks… we also lived at the police lockup, so we had the human variety locked up beside us…and mum would cook meals for them, i would dance for them while they had their exercise break out on the front step, with nothing at all to stop them wandering off…cept me doing a little dance… i must have been riveting as none of them ever tried to escape…and we were kinda friends with the prisoners back in those days… some even sketched and drew pictures of myself and siblings, after getting my mum to go and buy them a little pack of coloured pencils… those were very interesting days :) / / Anyway, we have a bit of a history with capturing wild things in our family, a bit like Steve and Bindi I guess…. so here’s a little drawing, digitally painted, inspired by those days I remember with such fondness… a little girl in her bikini at the beach with a little ‘brunch coat’ as we used to call them over the top…..hosting a dear little Blue-ringed Octopus on her head.. / / There is a funny story I have to share with you too, which is possibly why i put the occy on her head… my father used to catch occy’s for fishing bait (with his bare hands) and stick ‘em in a bucket… his method of killing the poor darlings, was to bite their heads, in the eye area, i kid you not…he believed it the most humane way…. / / To cut the long of it short….. Dad was driving his little truck along after a catch in the Creek at Kingy…when he felt something very strange on the back of his head….the occy he’d caught had crawled out of the bucket….. and where do you think he was…? lol I do miss our menagerie of animals friends, back then i had no idea they were very unusual creatures to keep, including a baby crocodile, a turkey running around the courtyard… and all manner of other strange and wonderful things.
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