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Kitties! And Dragons too.

Melia — Thu, 27 May 2010 04:20:48 +0000

I just realized that I haven’t posted the promised completed paintings that I showed you the line drawings of a few days back. Well here they are in full color for your viewing pleasure.
Also I have a new sketch that I have been wanting to share. I had to wait until the scanner was hooked up to the new computer to show it off. But once again life with a kitten is showing itself in my drawings. When I can get around to actually painting this one, those round things on the hat band will be gears, except fo the one that is obviously a pocket watch. Then of course there is always the squished fairy. I really don’t know which I want to paint first….

Engineering Dragon – Illustration Friday – Equipment

Melia — Thu, 20 May 2010 04:43:48 +0000

This week’s illustration friday theme was “equipment”, which inspired this cute little steam punk dragon.

Choices, Choices, Choices

Melia — Mon, 17 May 2010 01:37:30 +0000

I had to get a new computer this weekend, which getting it put together and up and running, took the entire weekend. Thank you, James. So I don’t feel like I got much done at all. I did manage to pick 3 drawings from my sketchbook and ink them. But now, I am not sure which to start painting. Maybe I will work on all 3 at once.
So here we have Adopt A Kitty- a cute little dragon with a new little kitten – if you have been following my blog I bet you know where that idea came from.
The other 2 cupcake drawings were inspired by a similar painting by Jennifer Nilsson featuring a mouse and cupcake – which you might notice on the right as a ad linking to her artfire account. You know you want to click on it and see the rest of her wonderful art. Go ahead, I don’t mind. These little drawing will still be here when you get back for you to check out. Maybe when you get back, I might even have added a bit of color to them.

Metamorphosis

Melia — Tue, 04 May 2010 03:00:16 +0000

This week’s illustration friday theme was “Cocoon”. So Saturday I worked on this little watercolor painting of a little fairy dragon’s metamorphosis. Then Sunday my huge german shepherd decided he needed a metamorphosis of his own, and has become a mama kitty.
A little 4-5 week old kitten with some minor health problems was discovered in our back yard by Wolfie and his response was to mother it. So we have adopted the cutest little beastie you have ever seen. She is right now sitting in an old check book box on my desk that is lined with an old washcloth. We are of course having to hand feed her a mixture of moist kitten food and kitten milk, and give her a couple different meds twice a day and do all the things kitty mommies are supposed to do. Although Wolfie doesn’t think that we do a good enough job at the cleaning part and washes her as often as he can. I am terrified that he will accidentally eat her since he is smaller than his muzzle and he can’t see what he is doing while licking her silly.
And of course you all want to see the little ball of fluff that has turned out household upside down don’t you? Here is Willow, our new baby.

Detective Draco – Illustration Friday

Melia — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:41:59 +0000

This week’s Illustration Friday theme is “Detective”. I went with that old detective novel style fellow with a rumpled overcoat and well worn fedora. I still want to paint him, and he is on watercolor paper, but first I have this crazy fairy cat idea running around in my head, that I haven’t figured out how to get onto paper. So I will chase the cat idea around before I get back t this. I at least need to have a sketch for those wings, or I will loose the idea forever. This is why I keep a sketchbook with me at all times. Not because I am industrious, but because I have a horrible memory.

Dancing Dragons – Finished

Melia — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 03:12:14 +0000

See I finished it. This took longer than I expected, mostly due to the background elements.

Dancing Dragons Sketch and the completed Dip

Melia — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 06:24:52 +0000

This week’s illustration Friday theme was “Linked”. I really struggled to come up with something for this one. J kept rolling his eyes at all the ideas I ran past him. I guess it wasn’t so much being able to come up with ideas, but coming up with a good idea.
This was of course inspired by my elementary school days where we had to learn to square dance. Did anyone else have to do that, or is that just a Texas thing? Or maybe I am just telling my age and they don’t torture kids with that anymore. I mean making kids hold hands with that kid they had crushes on. I don’t know about you, but that made my 10 year old hands sweat, and was oh so embarrassing.
Well anyway, this is just a rough sketch. I really need to enlarge it so I can work on the faces better before I ink and add watercolor paint. Come back and maybe I will have it complete by the end of the week. Although since I have to paint my daughter’s room and prep for a new mural in there, I might not get to it this week. Hence the showing off of the sketch. Of course I will take photos of the mural as it progresses, because I have been asked to do a faux bas relief of Athena.
And as promised I have completed the Dip painting for you all to enjoy. Yummy strawberries. I need to go get some heavy cream just as soon as the replacement whisk for my mixer arrives so I can treat myself to some strawberries and whipped cream. ‘Cause that just looks good.

Dip- Illustration Friday – Finally Back To Work

Melia — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:32:07 +0000

Sorry it has been so long since I posted last. I have been focusing on spring cleaning. And it seems that I have a bit of an obsessive personality. Today K was out of school for Good Friday, so I had to take some time off to go let her play and run amok, and I took supplies to do some drawing while she ran off all that extra energy.
This was of course inspired by this week’s illustration friday theme “dip”. Strawberries are ever so yummy dipped in whipped cream or chocolate. Maybe I will have time to paint this for you all and post it here in a couple of days.

Subterranean Adventure

Melia — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:47:10 +0000

This week’s Illustration Friday theme is “subterranean”. So here we have a cute little dragon on a subterranean adventure. You will note that I have the illustration completed on Friday. That is because I was at All-Con all day and working on this cute little guy kept me busy in between talking to some fabulous web comic guys and wonderful con goers.

I will of course be at the con all weekend. For you poor folks that didn’t get to visit, I will try and post some photos after the con, and maybe even link to some of the web comics that I am being introduced to.

Down the Rabbit Hole with Dragon

Melia — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:15:45 +0000

This week’s illustration friday theme was “perspective”. And of course with all the Alice in Wonderland things around these days, my first though was the image of that rabbit hole.
Also this is the first time I managed to use masking fluid and not mess something up. I found the Masquepen at my local art supply store (Asel for those in the DFW area). No gunking up a brush, better control, and no torn paper.