Category: watercolor

Tribute to AA Milne and EH Shepard – Winnie the Pooh

So, I run a private group on facebook dedicated to daily sketching/drawing. Every month I put out a calendar of prompts and you draw which ever prompt inspires you the most. The point is to just draw every day, skill level doesn’t matter.

Well… January 18th was A.A. Milne’s Birthday also known as Winnie the Pooh Day, that day the prompt was to Draw a winter activity to include Pooh & gang.

I grew up watching winnie the pooh, back in the early 70’s I had a pooh-bear, so early Winnie the Pooh holds a special place in my heart. As an adult I admire EH Shepard’s original illustrations of Pooh & gang, which is more or less what I based this drawing on.

Needless to say, I was very inspired. And yet again, I feel as though this is a direction I need to explore more of.

A photo posted by Connie (@connie_faye) on Feb 13, 2016 at 7:19pm PST

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Here are some detailed shots as I completed them:
Pooh:

A photo posted by Connie (@connie_faye) on Feb 9, 2016 at 7:20pm PST

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Eeyore:

A photo posted by Connie (@connie_faye) on Feb 10, 2016 at 11:55am PST

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I’m hoping to get the illustration finished in the next few days.

New Personal Work

This little fairy was inspired by a sketchbook drawing I did the week before last.

Yesterday all I did was work on the background. I had an idea of what I wanted, I worked at it, and worked at it, but by the end of the day it was crap. I really didn’t want to have to scrap all of the work I had already put into the pencils. Since I had used liquid mask to cover the figure, I thought… Gesso! I guess it was the perfect opportunity to try something I hadn’t done before… and I absolutely LOVE the way this turned out. Yay for happy mistakes. =) After this little experiment you can bet I’ll be doing more of this.

for Summer.

I keep forgetting to post about this.
Last month (October I think) I commissioned my friend Summer. I absolutely love her work and told her to just surprise me.

You can find more of her wonderful photography and artwork here: http://to-paraphrase.com/

Earlier in the month I was looking at Summer’s blog, I’m always amazed at how beautiful her photographs are and one she took of herself epically inspired me.

I started the drawing on the 11th of November and finished the painting around the 23rd (took an entire day to edit the painting video).

I hope you enjoy watching it.

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If you’d like to see a better view of the painting go [ HERE ].

I really liked where this went and already working on my next victim *cough* painting… I mean painting. @_@

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