The camp is closed now waiting for another summer.A beautiful morning with fog.
hey mom! your baby’s growing! :) featured in RB’s homepage on 11 April 2008… thanks RB!!
/ Kids Keds Canvas Shoes now available in this design at my Zazzle Store / / Baby & Kids Tshirts in this design available at My Zazzle Store / This design is from the brown paper collection. / Hand drawn with a felt tip pen onto brown stock paper / with lashings of pastel and white gesso into the mix, / my little girl has stars in her eyes and ponders the first / lick of the hugest lollipop she can find… / think she’s been to see Darrel Lea :)
/ Kids TShirts available at my Zazzle Store / / Adult TShirts available here at Red Bubble / / / Here is Nature Girl a la naturale!! / another brown paper mixed media creation from the studio of Karin Taylor :)
2 sales / Here is Nature Girl a la naturale!! / another brown paper mixed media creation from the studio of Karin Taylor :)
/ / 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 sale / / / Mixed Media Painting on Aquarelle Arches Satine Hot Pressed Watercolour Paper (ink, pencil, acrylic, pastel, colour pencils, wax medium, tissue paper from old sewing pattern) approx size of original painting 56×762cm – original is available / (if interested in purchasing the original please contact karintaylor@exemail.com.au) NB: original painting is slightly different, as some extras were added in photoshop, the background of original is creamy white and the bottom panel is not on the original either.
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.
/ / / 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 :) /
/ / “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.
Summers Tide / Boys playing at the waters edge, skylarking in the late afternoon sun. Taken at Pinkys Beach, Rottnest Island, Western Australia. / A candid shot and abstract piece with texture layers. / Camera – Nikon D90 / Lens 55-200mm FEATURED IN – ‘The Woman Photographer’
A glimpse between the palm trees of a local toddler playing in the ocean in the late afternoon sun on the Isle of Pines. / Candid Shot / Camera – Nikon D90 / Lens 55-200mm FEATURED IN – ‘Live, Love, Dream’
You’ve Got a Friend by James Taylor comes to mind… / half coloured to show before and after – thanks to my friend and fellow bubbler gottheshot for this great idea!! / a little drawing / digitally coloured / i hope you like it
Lazy Dayz / Candid shot of a boy in a tree on the Isle of Pines, New Caledonia. It reminded me of those carefree childhood days, the long summers with not a worry in the world. / Camera – Nikon D90 / Lens 55-200mm FEATURED IN – ‘Nikon D90 Users’, ‘The Woman Photographer’ and ‘The Good News Group – Caring & Sharing’ Views – 306 / Favourited – 36 times
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Ahh summer has arrived early for some of us this year. After a day at the beach last weekend, I was able to get that good old feeling back that only summer can bring! These kids were playing around at the beach, and I couldn’t help but be reminded of a time in life when going to the beach, making a sand castle, digging a hole to fill when tide comes in, finding something living a rock and burying someone in sand were the best things you could ever do. Life’s simple pleasures. I live for a sunny day. Taken at Port Melbourne Beach Original shot layered once and a free use texture from www.deviantart.com – tagger stock layered on top, with a slight adjustment of RGB. Finally, omni lighting effect applied. Canon 50D / 18 – 55, 58mm / f11, 1/250, ISO 100 MCN: CC3BP-T4CDV-S575Y More Textured work:
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