Limited Palette 3: Blue And Blue

Limited palette 3: blue and blue

These are the risks we take when we pick without looking. I think I managed to get a decent amount of contrast in there eventually.

One of these is a Winsor & Newton cobalt blue, the other is Sennelier but doesn't have the colour name on the pan, so I'm not sure which blue it is.

Over Christmas the Sunday School children made some paper angels to decorate the church, and I thought it would be fun to try to interpret them literally.

The first one is based on small angels they made to decorate the cross, they had wings but no arms, and halos but no faces.

The middle two are based on a huge angel Gabriel, which was 5 massive pieces of black paper in a sort of windmill shape, covered in stars and googly eyes. He also had a halo with no face. I thought, best case scenario this is a human-shaped star field, worst case it’s a sort of hole in reality filled with eyes.

The final one was based on chatting to the parish priest about how angels are described in the Bible. There’s a lot of eyes and wheels involved.

I’d quite like to work these up into a series of paintings, I think? These were all done with crayola pencils on printer paper because I was at my parents’ house. I’d also like to try and animate the final one, in my mind it was spinning.

Inktober 2021, Day 1 - fountain pen

He wasn’t there a moment ago.

I drew some shroomsonas for MayShroom! These are a shaggy inkcap and a bleeding tooth, both found in the UK. If I had to pick one I think I’m more of an inkcap, but the bleeding tooth is great fun to draw.

I wanted to do the whole challenge at first, but I didn’t have the energy. I feel bad because Sam Guay deliberately tried to make it easier by giving 4 weekly prompts instead of 31 mushrooms, but I actually found the prompts much harder than doodling up 31 quick botanical illustrations or a mushroom fairies or something. Oh well, next year!

This is probably my most popular non-fanart piece ever, so I added it to my redbubble shop! I’ve just set up basics like prints and postcards, but I can add other products if anyone is interested.

I’m just in it for the spiral notebooks really.

Day 2 - gel pens (and a brush pen)

More creatures than Louise and her foster parents call her house their home.

Remember when I said I only had 90 minutes a day to do these? I don’t know what made me think I could do this in an hour and half. It took that long to do just the lineart and the spot blacks, I’ve been crosshatching for hours! I’m really pleased with this though, so it was worth it.

A little woodland scene painted with three spare watercolour half pans.

I found these in a box of half pans I’d forgotten about while digging out my gouache. I don’t use pre-made pans anymore (I just squeeze tubes into them), so I thought I’d pick two or three out at a time and mess around with limited palettes. I played it safe this time with sepia, yellow ochre and intense green, but next time I might pick some at random and see what I can do.

The tiny sketchbook is also something I used half of and then forgot about. I seem to have used a lot of it for swatches so I think it deserves some nicer pieces.