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Tuesday 3 May 2011

drawing and photoshop fun

I just love making illustrations and mixed-media and sitting for hours in front of my computer, fiddling around and having fun. The illustration itself took only 15 minutes, the fiddling around nearly 3 hours.
At the moment my favorite colors are turquoise and pink, maybe because it's spring and the colors around me are still soft and gentle.
A few years ago i never would have favorited pink, it being much too girly and sweet, but in combination with green the sugary feel to pink is minimized.
As with every artist, i notice that my tastes and style evolve over the time. Things that a few years ago would be unthinkable are now my favorite medium, for example collage. Collage can be so sublte, full of texture, meaning, it's become like an addiction.

2 comments:

  1. She's very pretty, Barbara, especially if you look at the close-up in Zazzle!

    I've found too, that using a different medium encourages me to use colours that I never would normally think of using! I don't know why that happens but I think it's all to the good!

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  2. Thanks, Judy! i've noticed that the older I get, the younger and "cuter" the girls in my illustrations get :-)

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