Finally had some time to do up the new batch of thank you cards for my clients. Will send them out tomorrow, hopefully.

I decided that this year, I was going to send clients something to thank them for their business once projects were wrapped. I was thinking about doing a printed card, but the idea of sending the same card to a client more than once didn’t seem nice, and I didn’t want to have several different designs lying about the house. I was also thinking of a Print Gocco thing but it’s an expensive little thing that is also pretty tedious if you’re just making one card.

Then I remembered that they sold little DIY cards at the art store and thought ‘why don’t I just paint cards for them?’. It’s great – my clients will get a little piece of real art, and I don’t have to worry about anyone getting a repeat design. And I’ve been meaning to paint more anyway, so it’s a nice way to sneak in a bit of painting now and then!

So here are the first two I’ve done that will be going out soon. The inks were done with a brush pen, with watercolors for color.

Had some free time to paint today so painted this. Sumi ink, drawing ink and white gouache.

Happy New Year! I found some time to play with some really old gouache paint over the new year. It was a lot of fun, though I’m not very familiar with the medium. Hoping to get more colors and make more paintings!

Sketch of crow. Ink pen and watercolor. I think I need a new scanner to scan anything that’s not black and white. This one is making my browns look purple and neon-ish. This was the best I could do to adjust the color in Photoshop to look like the original.

One of my rare traditional media pieces, done in color inks, india ink, color pencil and acrylic. You can see the enlarged sketch behind, which was transferred with transfer paper to 18×24 watercolor paper. The original sketch was in my sketchbook.

The finished ‘traditional’ artwork.

With a bit of Photoshop tweaking to the colors.

The Hunted. Pen, india ink, brushes, Photoshop, custom digital brushes, some scanned paper, Stonehenge paper, and a few backaches. Not sure which I prefer. Top is a variant, bottom is the original.

Ink test painting on Stonehenge paper, with Photoshop color tweaks afterwards.

Illustration of a boy and his fawn. He’s very fond of it. Hahahaa.

Sorry. Bad pun.

Playing around with Corel Painter. Sketched and painted in Painter, color tweaks in Photoshop. Click on it to see the large view with the textures etc.