Here you will find my latest ideas and experiments.
Isn’t this a sweet little group? I sketched them just for fun since I thought it would make a really cute collection, plus I hadn’t drawn anything except birds for a while so it was nice to draw some plants and bugs!
The dandelion is not my favourite but it wasn’t my intention to create a full illustration since I was just enjoying myself.
Here’s my illustration that I made for Valentine’s Day! I went for a pair of Chaffinches since I’ve been seeing them a lot in the garden lately, and I also thought the Male’s pink plumage fit in very well with the holiday!
I’m particularly happy with how their faces came out and how the pencil scribbles make them look fluffy. The branches they sit on were drawn very roughly and quickly since I wanted the focus to be on the birds so I do think it looks a little scruffy now, perhaps I would give them some nicer perches if I were to revisit this one.
I also experimented with adding some colour in a similar style that I’ve been painting my landscape skies, which you can see here. I do like how they look fully coloured, and in the various colour-ways I made to represent different kinds of couples, but I think that black and white illustrations will always be my favourite!
I’ve been playing around with an oracle deck project recently and I’ve been enjoying sketching up some ideas for each of the card prompts.
I though this Song Thrush singing his heart out would be a very sweet interpretation for the word, “Expression”. The Oracle deck is still in the early phase of being created so doesn’t have a name yet, but it seems to have a bit of a Hedgewitch theme so far. It features a lot of creatures and plants that I find around me so it’s proving to be a lovely exercise to pull me deeper into connecting with my new home in the Brecon Beacons, and also how this all impacts my spiritual practice too!
