Tag: illustration challenge

  • Pippi and Mr Nilsson

    I still have work to do on Pippi. Her lovely shoes didn’t work with magnets. Here she is in her bare “feet”.

  • Pippi and the Monkey

    Pippi’s armature and head: aluminium wire, polymorph and polymer clay (hands and head). Armature for Mr Nilsson the Monkey. Without a head.

  • Finding a challenge

    I work best with some kind of challenge. (I have been drifting – perhaps stuck!) There are lots of challenges on Instagram and I felt the pull of a Pippi Longstocking theme for the first week of August. I will try to animate one of the daily prompts but for now I will just see…

  • Folktale Week 2019

    “OK. You want to see some folktale week drawings?” “This is Day 5 – DARK.  Done with a fine technical pen.” “Day 6 – KEY. Technical pen with collage and watercolour.” “This is Day 7 – the final day of prompts – CROWN”. This is done with technical pen and collaged colour and watercolour. I…

  • Another Challenge

    “I finished Inktober… and I think I need to start a new challenge.” Everything’s a challenge. “Mum, I mean a drawing challenge.” So what are you going to do then? “Folktale Week … It runs from the 4th November to 10th with a daily prompt for an illustration.” What are the prompts? “Mmmn … They are … Home – Secret…