Posted July 9th, 2008 by Lesley Smitheringale
Dan May is an artist living in Atlanta, Ga. He spends his days (and nights) painting dreamlike environments that transcend space and time. These delightful yet haunting images are often based in personal observations of both human’s and nature’s relationships with each other, blended with a healthy dose of whimsy, fantasy and cautious relevance…
I had trouble selecting examples and they are all beautiful but I forced myself to pick a few.
A selection of thumbnails of Dan’s work
When Fear Gave Way to Frolic
Autumn’s Fall
l to r: Gust and Toast
Delicate Nature
Beauty and Buggane
Dan May’s Website
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Posted July 7th, 2008 by Lesley Smitheringale
We’ve had a couple of chilly, wet days which always brings down more birds looking for shelter and food. There seems to be a growing number of crested pigeons who love our yard but in particular out neighbour’s roof.
This little fellow was actually asleep and all puffed up in the afternoon chill.
They seem to love hanging out on our neighbours’ TV aerial and I wonder if they get poor reception as a result!
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Posted July 5th, 2008 by Lesley Smitheringale
This digital painter’s work is phenominal. Tom lives near Hamburg in Germany and he started off using traditional airbrush techniques onto board but has progressed to digital using mainly Photoshop and Painter.
From an interview with Tom at CGArena this is his advice to artists -
Would you like to give any 5 tips to the Photoshop users which like to create artwork like yours?
- Do not think about your own style or copy other styles, just paint and play around with photos, structures and layers as much as you can so the style will come automatically.
- Just be awake every time and imagine how to paint things that you actually see all the times
- Let you be inspired by nature
- Always compare with the best is a good way to know where you are
- The main tip: be creative and be inspired all the time and: just do it!
Here is a selection of Tom’s digital paintings and none of them are photos!
Black Rhino
Fruit Rain
“Okay: some of you asked me how I did this kind of work. Every single piece was separate illustrated on a separate layer”
Siberian Tiger
Brave Dog
Jumping Cat
Panther
Humpback Whale
Tom’s work on deviantArt (Illugraphy)
Tom’s Website/Blog
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Posted July 1st, 2008 by Lesley Smitheringale
I am thrilled to announce that I am now available to do pet portraits as commissioned work and here is my first gorgeous model, Tammy who is a Bichon Frisé. I have met and cuddled this dog and she is delightful as are her owners.
More details are on the Pastel Pets Page on this site
Other available products of your pet portrait - only available to the person(s) who commissioned the original pastel portrait: -
Card
Mug
Mousepad
Fridge Magnet
Bumper Sticker
T-Shirt
Hat
and lots more ….
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Posted June 30th, 2008 by Lesley Smitheringale
Kate is a Graduate from the University of the Arts in the UK with 1st class honours in BA Illustration. Her work is
Creative, quirky and with a passion for doodling I am enthusiastic and dedicated to every piece of work I undertake
My favourite pieces from Kate’s folio are her “Little Birds”
Nelly uses berry juice as blusher
Kate’s website
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Posted June 30th, 2008 by Lesley Smitheringale
This is another fantastic post from the site COLOURLovers, posted by evad
See full post here
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Posted June 29th, 2008 by Lesley Smitheringale
Electric Art is an internationally acclaimed retouching studio based in Sydney’s creative heart Surry Hills.
Here are some stunning examples of what this Australian company does.
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Posted June 28th, 2008 by Lesley Smitheringale
More changes and improvements and I think that one more session on this drawing tomorrow and it will be finished for my client.
Day 3 - two sessions
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Posted June 28th, 2008 by Lesley Smitheringale
There is a beautiful ethnic, folklore and fairytale quality about this illustrator’s work and his illustrations are totally devine.
Finnish born, now London based artist, Klaus Haapaniemi became interested in illustration after seeing some well-designed Russian animations on TV when he was only eight years old. After graduating from Lahti Design Institute, Klaus lived in Italy where he worked as a key print designer for Diesel and Diesel Stylelab. Klaus’s long list of commercial clients include print collections for Clements Ribeiro, Cacharel, Marimekko and Levis, plus store identity for Selfridges, an ever expanding range of his own published books plus ceramics and wall tapestry collections.
“Kauris”
“Oravat”
“Castle Wall” Mural
“Hauki”
“Taika Cup Blue”
Klaus’s website is under construction but you can see more of this work at Big Active
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Posted June 27th, 2008 by Lesley Smitheringale
After looking at the portrait for a long time, I realised there were quite a few areas I needed to fix up such as the snout and the eyes so I worked on it for a few hours again today fixing up the most obvious proportion errors I had made. I think it’s a lot better and probably the hardest thing of all to achieve is to capture the animal’s personality.
The source photograph
Day 1
Day 2
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