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Playing around with some blues and yellows tonight

Playing around with some blues and yellows tonight. Here’s my personal feedback (to myself!);

Yellow and blue is a nice combo 👍🏻
Not sure about the horizon line, I curved it to give the idea of the planet being round but it’s a bit weird 🤷🏻‍♀️
Little people are cute 😂 That’s my husband with my daughter.

Funny getting back to drawing landscapes as that’s what I used to draw a lot when I did art in secondary school (yes that was a long time ago!).
Any guesses as to where this famous location is?!

SWIPE RIGHT to see the original photograph 👉🏻

This sketch is a based on a photo that popped up on my twitter account of a volcano eruption in eastern Congo.

I’ve been working on colour theory so felt inspired to get out the reds and try to recreate the image. Decided to use pastels rather than paints, purely because it sped up the process and I only had a short amount of time available.

I’ve recently been playing around on the iPad and learning how to draw digitally but genuinely feel that working on paper is more me. I think it’s because my ‘art time’ is a time when I relax and calm down at the end of the day. For some reason (maybe the blue light?) I always feel a bit ‘wired’ after drawing on the iPad and don’t sleep as well as I do when I’ve been drawing on paper.

Arty folk - am I just weird or anyone else found this?!

I’m working on colour theory at the moment so th

I’m working on colour theory at the moment so this is a quick look at a sketch focusing on this. The aim was to create the background using one main colour and then add a character that would work (colour-wise).

Here’s the feedback I’m giving myself - I feel the background worked but not the character because I think it ‘pops’ too much. I went with a contrasting colour (this is the colour theory but I’m working on!) rather than a colour that would work in harmony (purple/pink and green).

I am a self-taught illustrator so this is how I learn, I give it a bash, see if it works and if it doesn’t then I try again - ha ha! Sketch pads are great because they are for pictures that don’t need to go anywhere and somewhere I can few happy to make mistakes.

Anyway, feedback is welcome on this, especially if you know about colour theory and can point me in the right direction or share some tips and tricks! 👇🏻

Picture is of one of my kids walking through the Meadows (#edinburgh) in Spring when it’s raining and she’s playing with the petals.

BRAIN DUMP! If you saw my post yesterday this wil

BRAIN DUMP!

If you saw my post yesterday this will hopefully make some sense to you! I took part in a writing exercise via @scholasticillustratedbooks last night and wrote a story about Morris who tried to steal happiness. It got me thinking about who Morris was as a character and it’s official...he’s a Monster!

Recently I’ve been learning about colour theory and part of that was looking at colours that evoke emotions (it’s funny how things can connect creatively!). This then got me thinking about how ‘happiness’ and ‘sadness’ would look and then the transition between the two. Interestingly ‘green’ often signifies ‘growth’ which is a nice way to look at the transition from sadness to happiness.

My favourite moment in exploring this with Morris was how the #pandemic (!) also influenced my thinking. I really love that happiness is also infectious and ‘catching’!! 😂. While we might all be avoiding human contact to prevent catching a virus it’s interesting to learn that human contact/connection, both physical and emotional, also has an impact on our wellbeing (good job Google fills me in on the science!)

Anyway, so nice to have a wee creative flurry! Looking forward to the next writing prompt tonight and seeing what comes....

Something a bit different for you tonight…a wee

Something a bit different for you tonight...a wee story!!

@scholasticillustratedbooks are running a new writing initiative. Every night for the next two weeks they will provide a writing prompt. The idea is to put aside 15 minutes a day to write something based on their prompt and see what happens. I’ll confess, I wrote this in 30 minutes but when my 15 minute timer went off I wanted to keep going so I did. I don’t really like sharing work this rough (it’s literally just been bashed out!) but no story ever starts perfect and this was a great exercise to get some thoughts down on paper around ‘happiness’ which was today’s prompt.

I think, in this consumer world, it’s really easy to get caught up in the belief that ‘things’ = happiness...and they can, briefly in that moment, but you can’t buy (or even steal!) happiness because it’s not a physical entity, it’s a feeling that exists within us all and, scientifically, it’s often through our interactions with others that we experience it the most...and that’s where the idea for this story came from!

If you fancy joining in for some writing over the next two weeks then head to @scholasticillustratedbooks for the daily prompt 👍🏼

7 years ago I became a mum for the very first time

7 years ago I became a mum for the very first time! I (intentionally) try not to share too much about motherhood as I really want this space to be somewhere I can be someone other than ‘Mum’, but truth be told the two really go hand in hand. A lot of my stories and drawings are often inspired by my kids, through their actions and conversations but also in their challenges and struggles as they try to figure out and understand the world.

I’m really passionate about picture books, not just because I love to make them but because of the important role I believe they play in children’s lives. They teach so much more than just reading skills, for example;

Ruby’s Worry (Tom Percival) - anxiety.
The Heart and the Bottle (Oliver Jeffers) - grief.
The Koala who Could (Rachel Bright/Jim Field) - confidence.
Julian is a Mermaid (Jessica Love) - courage.

So 7 years on I raise a cup of tea (you know how wild I am right?! 😂) and say thanks to all the brilliant authors/illustrators out there who have helped me navigate this crazy world with my own kids through their amazing words, thoughts, ideas and illustrations.

I really hope that one day my books will do the same 🤞🏼

Magical lands, far away places, hot countries, col

Magical lands, far away places, hot countries, cold countries, the bottom of the ocean, the top of a mountain, forward in time, back into history, under the ground, up in to space, onto the moon, over a rainbow, to dungeons with dragons or even forests with fairies!!

Books can take you anywhere...so let’s go!!! #bookstagram

#worldearthday2021 Whether you believe in climat

#worldearthday2021

Whether you believe in climate change or not we all have a responsibility to look after this planet.

Myself included.

Happy #worldearthday 🌍 humans!

If you have any great #savetheplanet tips/suggestions that have worked for you then let me know 👇🏼 I’m always keen to do more if I can.

On a personal note I am now completely converted to shampoo bars! I highly recommend the switch, genuinely feel my hair is 100x healthier (it takes a few weeks for it to adjust) and I no longer have empty shampoo bottles going to landfill. Small steps, but steps nevertheless...

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