Twilight Zone

Just a sketchy little experiment with charcoal, photoshop, and an afghan-knitting cat.

Hatch

Here is my latest sketch, although I'm not sure where this little one is going to end up ultimately:

My process for this style that I often work in is to first sketch with a combination of pencil and charcoal, and sometimes a smidgen of ink on watercolour paper. Then I scan the drawing and play with it in photoshop a little, usually adjusting the colour balance to get a sepia tone:

And I know it is largely frowned upon to use photoshop filters, but sometimes I can't help it....

So there are three versions of this little hatchling....I can't decide if I'll incorporate him into my Animal Alphabet wall cards somehow, although "B" (bird) and "C" (chick) have already been taken by Bumble Bee and Chipmunk. Or maybe he'd make a really cute "Congratulations On Your New Arrival" card. What do you think? And which of the three versions do you prefer? All comments are happily received and appreciated.

Here are a couple of the Animal Alphabet wall cards I mentioned. Process is the same, except with these critters I stitched fabric onto the paper for some added texture:

Thanks for checking in!

Quoto

"I hope I learn something from knowing the creatures of the Earth. I hope I learn something from looking a long way, from looking up, from being much alone. We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we do no more than drive to its edge and look in."
--Wallace Stegner

Friday's Favourite Phrase

"Knock a buzzard off a shit wagon"

def.: so rank, it cannot be described.

Liable

Scott being inducted into the Architectural Institute of British Columbia

Ode

To old friendships renewed, to new ones eternalized. To sharing plates, one dessert and four spoons. To stiletto heel prints in fallen April snowflakes. To vocal shiverings in snow-covered parked cars and a slow journey home just before midnight. To Saturdays, to sunlight on awnings, to news of pending adventures. To hugs goodbye, with promises of next time. 

And driving home, alone, with the volume up.

Pig has a secret

I came across this whimsical piece on Foundling's Etsy Shop. The description reads: "A vintage bit of fabric and animals from vintage children's textbooks were collaged to create Pig Has A Secret." WELL. A pig after my own heart.