Happy Birthday FIRE RABBIT !!! YAY!!! / scuse the crudeness, didn’t have time to polish the drawing =P / Only got 1 hour to do it before morning, yaaaawwwnn….. hitting the bed now, super sleepy, lets leave the kooky cat and and the Rabbit partying all night, Im too old for this now… LOL
Meet Mo. He is a little squirrel who loves the quiet of the darkness. He loves making wishes and shooting them into the sky towards the twinkling stars! Will his wishes all come true? This is a print of an original illustration that I did with ink and digitally colored. Mo and Teeny are two little squirrels that live in my head….they had to come out eventually! Mo is available for limited prints and cards. Thanks for looking! ~Shelli xoxo / More of my work is available here: www.dazeychic.etsy.com
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
/ “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
/ / Winter Woolies also available as a shoe design at zazzle / / / Winter Woolies / A mixed media production on brown paper / using white acrylic gesso, pastels, charcoal, / NOW available printed on a tshirts too!! /
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 / / / / / / /
last year on the 7th of July 2007 I was looking through a Japanese/English dictionary for a name i could use for the characters that i was designing in illustrator. one word i typed in was prince and up came a few translations including one that caught my eye “mikoto” i spoke to a japanese friend who explained to me that the word was no longer used in that context as it was actually an ancient word used for the son of an emperor. i loved the story and i adopted the word to encompass all of the designs that i do. it has been a year that has where waves of creativity have had to compete with personal needs and my primary profession of being a teacher. What hasn’t waned is the warm and generous support of all my friends and supporters (especially those form red-bubble) from who seem to love what has been created. So i though as the first anniversary of mikoto passed on the 7/7/7 i would put all of the T-shirt designs onto one file. (its a few days late) thanks everyone who has commented, Bmailed, purchased, etc scotty (。◕‿‿◕。)
Sold as a matted print to a mystery buyer on the 1st of Dec 2008 on Redbubble.
BEST VIEWED FULL SIZE! Top Ten in the “We Want Games You Play!” challenge in Bits and Pieces Group November 28, 2009. / Third Place in the “Pastimes” challenge in Mood & Ambience September 4, 2009. / Featured in ! # 1 Artists of Redbubble ! August 14, 2009. / Featured in 12 Great Features – Challenge Themes Only June 14, 2009. / Second Place in the “Games People Play” challenge in 12 Great Features – Challenge Themes Only June 14, 2009. / Winner in the “Games” challenge in the _Mood & Ambience group May 14, 2009. / Top Ten in the “Vintage or Antique” challenge in Light In The Darkness group May 13, 2009. / Placed Second in the “Stack ‘Em” Challenge in Mood & Ambience March 18, 2009. / Featured in DSLR USERS ONLY March 17, 2009. / Featured in The Collector’s Corner March 16, 2009. / Third Place in the “I Don’t Do Sports” challenge in Photography 101 February 27, 2009. / Winner of That’s Entertainment! (Fun & Recreation Photos) group’s “Up Close Fun” Challenge and Featured in the Group February 16, 2009. / Featured in Domestic Art – Home is Where The Art Is September 21, 2008. Image taken with the Nikon D40x, using the 18-135mm lens. Used the tripod, shutter speed 6, aperture f/22, exposure -.67, iso 800. No flash. Of everything I’ve done, this is by far my favorite image (well, actually, there IZ one other … ). This was created for a “challenge” at another photo site … and came in second place out of … well, a bunch … but that’s not why it’s my favorite. This was done not long after I got my Nikon D40x … which I realize isn’t a wildly sophisticated camera, but which was a giant leap forward to me after my little Olympus C-5000 zoom. There were many new features on the Nikon that I was hopelessly confused about, but I was very fortunate to have a dear friend, AndreiSky, who kindly helped me understand the mysteries of the aperture. The set up for this image was an adventure in flashlights, darkness, kitchen stools, sofa pillows and the dreaded tripod. Not to mention my beautiful antique mahjong set … for which I finally found a use since I have no idea how to play mahjong!! So that’s it!! My masterpiece!! Hope you like it!!!
grow your own cupcakes! featured in Christmas and Seasonal Greeting Cards on August 16, 2008 Check out more products from this design here!
grow your own cupcakes! Check out more products from this design here!
So it’s been a while since I’ve uploaded any new artwork I know! / This one was fun to create, hope you like :) Pen, pencil, photoshop.
Oil Pastel And Acrylic On Wood (With Minor Digital Enhancements) Ophelia wishes all of us a great new year in 2009 filled with hopes and promises, it’s time to usher in the new things in our life! This is an all-occasion card, for birthday greetings, party invitations, congratulations and of course new year greetings :D You can view and buy my other “The Old Has Gone, The New Has Come” creations from my Zazzle Gallery:
/ / yes!! more rainbows!! Rainbow Elephant is coming to a tee near you..yes hopefully in the next hour or so, i will have her ready as a tshirt too….. hope you like her, she’s a mixed media production…mainly pastels (chalk) on yellow pastel paper….plus charcoal and a small amount of acrylic! I did this ages ago…but only just learned how to fix her up in photoshop ato make her available…hope you like her :) /
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
/ / 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 – 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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