New Zodiac Girls

Over the last few weeks I've been creating a new set of zodiac girl prints for my etsy shop. They come in four different sizes ranging from 5x7 inches up to A3. For a peek take a look here - there is 10% off all zodiac girls until the end of the week with coupon code ZODIACTEN.

Here are some of the girls -

Capricorn

 Leo

 Aquarius

 Aries

Scorpio Girl

I was recently asked to create a Scorpio girl for a customer in the same style as my other zodiac girls. A few ideas sprung to mind and I got to work in my sketchbook.

I thought I'd stick with a warm colour palette for Scorpio and chose shades of pink, ochre and red. At the moment I've made a Capricorn, Pisces, Taurus and Leo and I might create some more- I'll show you Pisces.

I love creating custom orders and if you have something in mind please don't hesitate to get in touch. I can be contacted at coramantic@yahoo.co.uk or in my etsy shop.

Here is the final Scorpio girl, I hope you like her.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone! It's a chilly, rainy 1st of January here in Scotland. I think it's going to be a quiet day at home with lots of chocolate, tea and a little drawing. I'll share some artwork with you...

 

 

 

 

 

 

New abstract work/WIP

I thought you might like to see some of the new work I've been creating this week. These are quite abstract pieces which I feel sit nicely along side my little ladies. I've created a series of ACEOs which are of similar colour tones and patterns. I've just started to work slightly larger on an A6 piece and I'm enjoying the experimenting. I think they look like little universes that have been hiding inside my head.

1999 Sketchbook - Francis Bacon/animals/my own style

In my last post I shared with you an interview I took part in over at Joyful Roots. One of the questions at the interview was what piece of work or project that I'd taken part in, was I most proud of - my answer to this was a project back in 1999 where I created a book that combined my own personal style with the influence of Francis Bacon and the theme of animals. Some of you asked me to share some of the work from the book so that's what this post is all about. My style of work is always changing and developing and although some of these images are a little more gruesome than my usual work, I hope you can still see 'me' in them all.

Experiments in Acrylic

Every so often I crave working with acrylic paints and find the need to leave gouache behind for a while. I can be a lot more expressive working in acrylic in terms of texture and colour. I didn't want to stray too far away from my usual style but I thought I'd let you have a peek at what I've been working on and how its developed from my gouache and ink drawings.

I would really love some feedback on these, good, bad or indifferent.

The top paintings are my new works in acrylics and the bottom two show my inspiration.

ACEO Love

I've spent the last couple of days making some new ACEO's, I really enjoy making ACEO's - I love working on a small scale and I can be quite spontaneous with them. I make them by painting out a background in gouache then drawing on top with ink before putting in any solid areas of gouache and finally adding pen and pencil detail.

Here are a couple of the final ACEO's I made and below shows a little bit of the chaos that goes into making them ;0)

These ACEOs are both for sale in my etsy shop and I also have an offer in my shop at the moment where you can buy an A4, A5 or A6 original illustration and get another one free - just until November 11th.