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Having some problems with dlvr.it posting on Twitter and Facebook, so this is just me fiddling with settings and hoping it will work.

So here's a picture of a cake in the shape of a terrifying bear:

It's enough to give anyone nightmares. [via]

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New T-Shirt Design - "Smittens"

This one started out as a sketchbook doodle but I felt compelled to draw it properly and turn it into a t-shirt design in my spreadshirt shop.

Get the Smitten T-Shirts! (...and other tat.)

Clearly I had to edit the image for women's t-shirts so that the gloves didn't take on a slightly sinister grope-y air. But you *can* get that t-shirt too if you really want to.

And here's the original sketchbook doodle:

Link of the day: Keep off the grass

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My Frog-Kisser and Dragon-Sunset Paintings On Your T-Shirts

After posting my recent frog kisser and dragon sunset paintings I wondered whether I could turn them into t-shirt designs.  And lo and behold!  I could!

So I managed to turn these:

...into these:

 

...which I'm quite pleased with.  Particularly the dragon one.  So go on!  Get your frog kisser t-shirts or dragon sunset t-shirts now!

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Sketchbook 5: Cloud Nein

Link of the Day: One does not simply...

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Sketchbook 5: Golf Cadet

Link of the Day: Do What Makes You Happy

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Congratulations Toby and Angel!

Yesterday my friends Angel and Toby got married in Wood Green.  This was mine and Laura's present to them - we decided on a coat of arms.  Angel is known as Angel Moon, hence the moon and the wings and halo.  Toby has a question he likes people to answer the first time he meets them: Who would win in a fight between a cheesecake and a snake?  Hence the cheesecake and the snake.

 

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Sketchbook 5: Shake It All About

 

Link of the Day: T-Cells

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Sketchbook 5: Picture Framing

Link of the Day: Plus-Size

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Sketchbook 5: Lauren Gitis

My drama school course starts in an hour.  A proper (part time) drama school course.  Hooray!

Link of the Day: Dinosaurs!

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Paintings!

Back in January I painted my first ever canvas.  It was for Laura's birthday (or was it Harold?), and it was the second picture I ever painted for her.  I used the Pip Seymour acrylic paints I bought from Atlantis Art off Brick Lane after I attended a workshop back in November last year.

Colours have always scared me a bit, because I habitually start off with a line drawing.  And if I like the line drawing enough to want to colour it in, then I'll like it enough to be scared of ruining it by trying to colour it in.

Doing a painting onto canvas feels a bit different though - you don't (or *I* don't, anyway) start off with line drawing, and if you balls a bit up you can paint over it again later.

Here it is in progress:

 

...and here's the finished product:

Laura In The Sky With Dragon

I didn't paint again on canvas until after we moved into our lovely flat in August.  Laura's a big fan of frogs so I had a couple of frog-based ideas I thought might be quite nice.  Then Laura and her Dad inspired this idea, which I painted about 3 or 4 weeks ago:

The Princess & The Frog (yes, I am the frog)

It's not perfect and I'm still working out what I can produce, but I'm very pleased with what I've done so far.  I'm currently working on a third painting (not featuring Laura) and then I'm going to do one based on all the foxes who seem to spend all day sunbathing in our back garden:

At some point I'm going to attempt doing a stormy sea - these acrylics are lovely to use and although I'm watering them down quite a lot at the moment to get a smooth finish, they're nice and thick and I'm sure I could get some great textures - if I could just figure out how...

Oh, and I will be making these available (along with some other things) on a print-on-demand greetings card site.

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