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oh boy, have I been a lazy blogger!

I promise to start updating here at least once a week, even if my art life is dull dull dull (as it has been )
These past two months have been very hectic, with no time for art!!
Well, actually that is not true..
There is always time for art lol
So let me rephrase that - These past two months have been very hectic, and I chose to put my art on hold while we worked on the house and entertained relatives….and played WoW lol

Yah I have been playing lots and lots of WoW…since the last patch I have become addicted again and its only going to get worse when the expansion is released next week…AHHH!! so freakin excited!! lol

The house is definitely coming along nicely - we had the kitchen cosmetically upgraded (meaning new counters, new floor, new backsplash, new paint). No huge demolition, just made it look nicer Still need to paint the cabinets and get some furniture though, hehe.

My fabulous sister and her awesome fiance came down for about 10 days at the beginning of October - soo much fun!! Here they are eating a huge turkey leg at the Renaissance festival!!

I am still waiting on a pic they took of David and I in our costumes, but once I get it, I will post it!! hehe

After they left, my parents came down to visit - we had a week break inbetween, which was spent cleaning and getting ready for them We had an awesome time with them too!! They helped us a lot in the yard - got about 4 cubic yards of bull rock that we moved about and put in the garden lol but with the 4 of us, it went quite quickly! the front yard looks sooooo good now! and the backyard has a nice start to it YAYS for my parents!! hehe

So yah, October was busy
And now its November and I have finally started working on my art again!
WOOHOO!
lol
so here is what i am working on
stage 2, outlining the sketch!

so as you can see, its a fairy taking her wee dragon out for a walk!

I am currently waiting for some special paint to be delivered, so in the meantime I decided to start another illustration! It is my first winter drawing of the year!

it still needs some work before I ink it in, but so far, so good
I will be filming the process of this painting too, so within the next few weeks I will have two videos to show ya’ll!! woot!!

okay so thats about it
as I said, not much has been going on in my art world
but now that it was picked up, ill start blogging alot more!

hope ya’ll have a super duper weekend!!

I am LOVING this weather sooo much!
I actually feel like going out and doing things lol the heat is gone and the cool breeze has stayed!! YAYS!

I finished my first Christmas print this past week - I believe I added it to Etsy on Thursday
I chose to do it all in Photoshop and use a different shading technique. I am soooo proud of little Mr. Mouse!! I must say that the colours for the web-jpg are NOT as bright as they are when printed - sadly the colours I used were not web friendly

I thought it would be fun to show the process of how I made this little drawing, so I took some pics hehe
It began with a very small sketch in my little sketch-book

lol yes there is a water splotch on it but from there I went into Photoshop, brought out my Tablet, and did another sketch

Then came the vector tool - my favourite instrument in these programs it may require alot of point-pushing, but I love the end result!

And finally the shading was added by using a paint brush!

(I chose to keep this one smaller, so when you click it you can see more of the detail.) I think Mr.Mouse is really cute lol He makes me giggle when I look at him - he just looks so happy and proud!!

I was thinking about where I might have come up with the design of Mr.Mouse - he just seemed sooo familiar to me and my husband……then it hit me - its Ginger’s toy!!! lol This is her FAVOURITE toy in the house. We have had it since we got Marzipan, but Ginger seems to be very attached to him. She takes him almost everywhere and keeps him safe from Marzipan lol The tail and whiskers have been chewed off, and hes stained, but she loves him nonetheless!! It’s like her security blanket I suppose She does chew on him, but very gently, and loves to have him sleep beside her on our bed (like in the pics). And as you can see, my little illustration closely resembles this stuffed toy, except mine has a tail lol
Marzipan once had a favourite toy like this, however it was a stuffed pig. She loved to take her frustrations out on him lol she was much more rough than Ginger is with her mouse, and she also loved a toy bear too…..both however did not withstand her chewing, and sadly had to be thrown away (as you can see in the pic, Bear’s eyes had already been pulled off - she likes to blind her prey before eating the rest I guess lol)

Anywho, this blog has had some things added to it - I put more blog links up, by artists which I admire, and I joined the awesome site of Indiepublic, so I added their badge Also, you might notice that I took the Handmade Pledge!! Woot! I really try to uphold that pledge every year - I love to support other artists and crafters. Back in Vancouver I would go to Circle Craft every year, as well as other local craft shows. It was something my mom and I would do together I really miss going. But Etsy is an awesome alternative for Christmas shopping!! So please, buy Handmade everyone!!

Well the sun is still out and the breeze is still blowing, so I think I will try to get some gardening done!

Have a wonderful weekend tout le monde!!