Paper art

 

I walked along Queen St West with Briana and we saw a wall decoration that was so cute, Briana decided she would make one for her daughter’s bedroom.  The wall decoration was essentially a tree made from many different kinds of wallpaper: brown pattern for the trunk and differing colours and patterns for each leaf.  A little further down Queen St, we dived into the Japanese paper store and bought the above sheets of paper to make all the leaves.  It was a lot of fun helping her to pick and choose the paper.  She still has to buy the paper for the trunk before she can start, but I can’t wait to see how it will turn out!

This one’s for you!

Alan has been asking me for a Spacemonkey for who knows how long. I never did it because I didn’t know what monkeys looked like. But thank God for Flickr.

Here it is Alan!

Bath time

Have you ever tried to take a shower in one of those teeny tiny shower stalls that don’t leave you enough room to bend over to touch your toes? 

Textured Sax

I’m really enjoying the music theme.  In this one I was trying to experiment with using textures to create the detail.  I like the general shapes, but I think it’s missing the finer shapes in the sax that would give it a more finished look.

FINALLY up and running

So I have been meaning to start up a blog for a long time and FINALLY I am starting it! Hopefully this will encourage me to create something every couple days. I'm experimenting with a variety of styles since I haven't yet found a style for myself - this daily exercise should help remedy that.

This watercolour study is my attempt at being more bold with the saturation since my stuff tends to be too soft & too light.
I'm fairly satisfied with it, but I wish I had used better paper so I could have worked it a little more.