butterflies and basketballs

ok, i need more trumpet music in my life. i ♥ the beginning of 'everybody wants to be a cat' by disney (so sue me).

i'm enjoying twitter more and more, do add me if you're there i'm here; twitter.com/willowing


New art art ART art ARTART crazy mania. while i've been at home (no more london work yay) i've been doing some new artsy things, looooookit;

ok, i did this journal entry:



in which i used lace and paint and messy stuff and liked it SO much that i wanted to create an abstract painting based on it! and i created the first ever abstract painting that i actually liked! (i've done quite a few more in my life but never really liked them!), this is it:









original for sale in my etsy shop here

ALSO, i created MAGNETS out of my art! how cool is that?!

lookit:





they're for sale here

they are just so cool! :-)

more art:



prints for sale here

original still for sale too, if you want, let me know!

and this one is quite suzi inspired:




original for sale here

working hard on my online art classes that start end of feb!! i'm reposting the promo in case some of you haven't seen it yet (i'm so very excited about the whole thing, only 3 more weeks or so before it starts, yay!):





BTW; you can also join my NING network if you don't want to join the course! there are other groups there which you don't have to pay for and can still pick up some interesting tips and hang out with other artsy people! so come join: www.willowing.ning.com

so, that was it, oh but also; i love houmous, avocados, snow and basketballs. ;)

love to you. ♥

friends in the snow.

i got snow on the brain. :-) x







friends in the snow

prints of this piece for sale here

inspired by stephen mackey

huge art post! it's been a while.

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Now, l'art.

I've finally had a chance to upload everything over the weekend and semi-update my website.

Sooooo.

1. New puppets








there are two empathy monsters there who have huge ears to listen to you when you want to talk and also, they'll zip up their own mouths when you want to talk so they won't give any unwanted advice or interrupt or say things that just make things worse. they are the best listeners ever. ;)

2. new art
now, i played around with this one in photoshop a bit. i'd love to know which of the 4 you like the most..

1. original


2. adjusted in photoshop


3. adjusted in photoshop


4. adjusted in photoshop


which do you like best? thanks!



this was done on canvas with a thick border and used lots of tissue paper to create cool textures.



close up:


i enjoy the softness of this painting.






(this last one isn't new, but i have taken better photographs of it, so sharing it again)

i love this one a lot. it shines and sparkles when light falls on it, shame you can't see that in a photograph.

3. new art journal entries




































i documented the creation of the art journal entry with the swan in it in this art tutorial video on altered photography:





4. (yes, still not done yet!) - New Book Illustrations
I am illustrating for a book called 'Grace Ann' which is about a doggie with only 3 legs.







these are sketches for other chapters







mmmh, on my work machine, the colours look a bit off, gonna work on that a bit more.

so, this is possibly the biggest post in the history of the world of all blog posts evah, and i commend you if you made it all this way! :D *claps*

i'm just glad that i finally had a moment to share it all.

love to you guys.
♥