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Illustration Friday – Homage

Melia — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:54:33 +0000

Well this week’s illustration Friday’s theme is Homage. So I did an Homage to Mucha. I love his illustrations and it fit right in with my fascination with mandalas. Not sure what to call the drawing. Although, I am thinking that it will be a painting before I am done. It is just calling out for some watercolor.

8×10″ pen and ink

And of course reproductions can be found at cafepress.

Illustration Friday Design- Garde

Melia — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:17:55 +0000

This is an older painting, but it was such a good fit for this week’s illustration Friday theme, that I thought I would bring it out again. The original has sold, but I do have it on cafepress.

Leap

Melia — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:32:06 +0000

This is my contribution to Illustration Friday. I am really enjoying working with pen and ink again.

7×9″ ink on bristol board. The black border is not part of the original drawing by is included in my submissions to cafepress, Zazzle and imagekind.

Rewiring my brain and Con stuff

Melia — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:09:28 +0000

My poor computer finally bit the dust. So today I went shopping for a MacBook. It is okay, but it works differently enough that I am having to think more about what I am doing. I can’t just go through the motions. I also am not sure about how to find the scan button on this thing. I do hope that I don’t have to get more software before I can scan again.

And it is smaller than my Alienware laptop. So trying to relearn to type on it is a pain. I prefer a larger keyboard.

Probably in about a year this cute little white computer will feel like an old friend. But right now it just feels weird. And I can’t right click either. I think it is missing my right click that is driving me the most crazy.

And this morning I got up with an urge to go back and do some pen and ink drawings and went and bought some pens and bristol board. But while at the con, I lost half of my mechanical pencil, so I can’t finish the sketch that I was working on. And I am jonesing to ink it. It is one of my mandalas with a fairy cat. Very detailed.

And at the con we had a lot of fun. I got James one of the collaborative works with Brad Foster and Teddy Harvia. And I bought myself a small original of Brad’s. It is an aritst mouse. Chris bought himself a dragon by Theresa Mathers. And the panels were interesting.
My favorite was Bev Hale’s and K Hutson Prices’s readings. I was lucky enough to have gotten to read the story Hutson read, but I must say that the reading was much cooler. When she was done reading everyone was so quiet. She had taken us to another world that made you afraid to make a noise in. I don’t know how she does it with so few words. When I read the story, I felt my heart rate rise. When it was read it was all the more intense. I do hope she does some more stories in this world. Because with her short story she established such an amazing mythology and a complete world.
Bev’s stories were pretty cool too. The Bettys was creepy. I think our next visit to see James’s grandmother at the nursing home is going to have to be on a nice bright day.
I am going to have to start going to more of these readings. They were cool.

Illustration Friday Design – Choose

Melia — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:10:15 +0000

This is actually a painting I did earlier, but it fit so perfectly that I couldn’t think of anything else to use.

Pro Choice 8×10 Acrylic on Watercolor Paper

Illustration Friday Design – Blanket

Melia — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:23:37 +0000

Saturday night I was needing some time to myself, so I went out for fancy baked potato and then a trip to the book store. I didn’t intend to spend any money at the book store. I just wanted to go to be alone among a crowd and have a bit of eye candy. But while looking through the art and craft magazines there it was – Something different- Something that called to me. It was Artful Blogging by Somerset Studio.
Inside were some of the most amazing images and stories. But my favorite was a blog called Illustration Friday.

So I of course had to visit, and start participating. This week’s theme is Blanket. And here is my contribution.

Blanket is an 8×10″ acrylic painting on watercolor paper.