Michi Reclining

Michi reclining with mousey, or Draw me like one of your French cats, or...

Carving now.

 

Sketches ~ Crows

Sketches from Pinterest board ~ Dogs & Cats & Friends

Crows

Chimera Musings

 Shoebill stork & cat ~ variation on the raven and tabby cat.  Also bat and cat ~ bats can be drawn like kewt little mice.

Cherry Tree Lino Series

Googling and Pinterest ink cherry tree art (mostly Japanese), and getting an idea of techniques.

 

Lots to choose from.

 

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.

 

Mostly blossoms, with the deer in the corner.

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.

 

 

Weeping cherry blossom trees.

 

Linogravure ~ I like it

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.

Probably better suited to bw with color added.

 

Air Kraken Progress Pics

 

 

carving one

 

 

printing one

 

 

carving two

 

 

printing two 

carving three

printing three

 

 

finished block

 

finished print

Xmas21 ~ Smiling Signy

 

             Smiling Signy

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.