Super-Fun New Collection: High On Life!

First off... Happy New Year! Can't believe I haven't posted at all since before Christmas... Guess it's been a pretty busy time!

This High On Life Collection is filled with fun colors, original illustrations, and lots of goodies--plus a Free-With-Purchase element pack--Up, Up, & Away!--with additional illustrations & brushes. 20% off until Sunday!

Here's what it looks like:

Full Kit (Collection):


Elements:


Papers:


Wordart & Brushes (also available separately)


Wordstrips:


Free-With-Purchase Element Pack (also available separately):


Here are just a FEW of the really great layouts the CT made:

By Sarah:


By Karen:


By Astrid:


Hope you guys are having a great weekend! =)

Most recent drawing: Kingfisher

 

Copic Multiliner & markers on Neenah paper. White from Sakura Glaze Gelly Roll, Hybrid Gel Grip, and white acrylic paint.

Another Drawing: Main Street

 

(Ranger Ink Color Washes & Walnut Ink on Neenah paper. Copic Multiliner & Copic Markers, White Sakura Gelly Roll pen.)

The deux chevaux cracks me up! =) But I think my eyes are crooked. Hopefully it just adds, uh, charm. Or something. =)

Another Drawing

Kinda ocean-y with lots of Art Nouveau influence & inspiration.

Copics Multiliner on Neenah paper with Ranger Ink Color Washes, then colored further with Copic markers and Sakura Gelly Roll pen (white).

Feeeeeeeeenershed!

Not too bad, I guess, for a first try... Added Copic markers for color, and White Sakura Gelly Roll. Black lines with Copic multiliner. 8.5x11".

Inky

I've been in a drawing mood, and have drawn many little flowers and now my hand and back hurt. =) But I like them.

Illustration Friday: Balloon

Word of the week: balloon



I always dread the post-prandial stupors of the holidays, and the way I seem to balloon...

Illustration Friday: Opinion

Word of the week: "opinion" -- I hope writing can be part of the illustration... (Click for larger, (mostly) legible version)



opinion

once
i saw a little scene
a father screaming at his son
hitting him on the shoulders
right where he knew the child
had a terrible sunburn

my opinion of this man
was not the most flattering

another time
i spoke with a man and his wife
about churches (this was in the South)
and listened to their reasons
for attending at least every two weeks
which was the minimum a man
of his standing
could afford to go they told me

my opinion of these reasons
greatly informs my skepticism

i have heard white people
scoff at the possibility of parity
between themselves and a black person
i have heard black people
scream hatred at 200 year old oppressors
who happened to be born 20 years ago
i have felt the spit of apoplexy
from women burned by men
and i've shrivelled under the scorn
of men whose mindscape includes no females

opinions

the grip of emotion
the shadowscreen of our lives

opinion is not often
reason

Illustration Friday

"Pretend"



Art Rage, Photoshop

Illustration Friday

"Wise"



Art Rage, Photoshop -- with thanks to "adnandx" at sxc.hu for the photographic inspiration

Illustration Friday

"vacant"



Art Rage, Photoshop CS2. It was just going to be the line drawing base for a collage-type thing, but I ended up kinda liking it this way, too...

Illustration Friday

"repair"

Yes, you can all groan now. ;)



Created with Art Rage and Photoshop CS2.

Flowers And Birdie

Just a little drawing in Illustrator...



Not sure what I'm going to do with it, though!

Illustration & Me

My talented friend Brenda first posted about this group, and I've been feeling the need to actually draw more--I'm ashamed to say that the 21-day challenge goals didn't truly stick! So here's my Friday Illustration, on the theme of "Late":



And here's a little layout about me--I loved the way Vinnie's word art itself suggested the word "being". My mom just brought me these pictures that she'd found in my Grandpa's stash...



Credits: All Vinnie Pearce, Pixel Canvas. Background paper, button, flower, wordart from the Baby's Breath kit. Other paper from My Pet Elephant. Flower spray from Woodland (Boys). Font: VT Remington. Journaling reads:

What would I say
to this little me?
Time has created
a torrent of moments
between us;
I would be unimaginable
to her. I should then
just give her love:
love to make her strong,
love to make a safe space
in her little mind
that will travel so far
from beginning to being.