Sketches from Pinterest board ~ Dogs & Cats & Friends
Crows
Shoebill stork & cat ~ variation on the raven and tabby cat. Also bat and cat ~ bats can be drawn like kewt little mice.
Googling and Pinterest ink cherry tree art (mostly Japanese), and getting an idea of techniques.
Ironically still haven't found the image that first inspired me to carve the cherry tree. It was a reduction print and I want to find it.
This is the image I think I'll start with.
I'll probably give the blossoms more of a sweep toward the deer.
I think my tree is a weeping cherry blossom tree. Looks like pics of it anyway.
I like the term linogravure. It's french for linocut prints, but it's reminiscent of photogravure.
I'm planning out some printing projects. I'm going to be working in linocut.
One series is the cherry tree in its various twisty forms and denizens. Fox, deer, barn (ok, not a denizen, but a recurring motif).
Some as reduction prints, especially if I want to play with the green (lichen) and pink (blossoms) combination.
Other subjects: my cryptids, like my chimera cat-bird critters.
Jeane gave me the idea, calling this pic "When what to my wondering eyes should appear..." I like that!
I can suggest the xmas tree behind her, with twinkling lights (blurred color?).
Maybe make her eyes even shinier.
It's the way I'm thinking right now, but I think I like it enough to start doodling.
Just from us this time. No more SH xmas cards. So the field is wide open.
I'm looking at simplified graphical lino images. Color blocks or color bw print.
How many to send out? Maybe I can print them myself? Probably too many for that, close to 50-ish.
I like the expression of the bear, but not necessarily the bird. A scarf? Xmas tree in the background? Ooh, or a polar bear ~ NPB maybe.
I can see Signy in the chair, a la Freya on the couch. Simple colors, maybe not so dark.
Any sheep. Maybe Clover.
Something with Clover. Baa-Humbug?
Another Sheep.
Kewt boxer face with Signy's markings. Xmassy. Maybe a smiley face like the xmas card with Signy from a few years ago.
Smiley face Signy with lolling tongue.