FLOWER GIRL

Here is my entry for the INSPIRE ME THURSDAY challenge. This weeks them (prompt) is Whimsy

ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY. Topic FAIL.

My poor Boston Terrier is feeling unloved and unwanted as he FAILED to get any comments and any bids.
is big dog eyes and appealing looks FAIL him..but i love him anyway

Here is my latest ACEO available here on ebay.
The Boston Terrier
Price starts at ONLY £1.99
for an original piece of art
2.5 x3.5 inches
created with watercolour pencils and acrylic ink and pigment ink
comes with a certificate of authenticity signed by me Jan Robson
The artist.

RECOMMENDED BOOK

Collage Discovery Workshop, Beyond the Unexpected: New Techniques Using Color, Personal Imagery and Creative Surfaces
CLAUDINE HELLMUTH.

This is an excellent book ideal for the beginner and more advanced collage artist.Plenty of techniques and tries to get your teeth into and to get your creative cogs whirling.
Highly recommended by many artists.

A follow-up to the bestselling Collage Discovery Workshop, this book taps into a whole new level of creativity. It's packed with original ideas and artwork, including: 16 new collage techniques and 12 new step-by-step projects; Exciting ways for readers to personalize their work with colour, photos, lettering and hand drawn elements; A wide variety of fun surfaces like canvas, fabric, altered books, paper and more; An inspiring gallery of work by the author and other top collage artists; Whether they're fans of the first book or brandnew to collage, readers will love the appealing artwork and easy-to-follow instruction found here.

Collage Discovery Workshop, Beyond the Unexpected: New Techniques Using Color, Personal Imagery and Creative Surfaces

BEAUTIFUL ART CALENDAR GIVE AWAY.
WOO HOO fabulous artist
ZINDY NEILSON
Is giving away one her amazing calenders in a fabulous free to enter draw
Head on over to place your entry
I have entered already so wish me luck

calender give away

here is my latest aceo listed here on ebay starting at only 0.99 pence for real original hand drawn art ooak too. link

"Humphrey Bogart" Time Lapse Drawing.

Illustration Friday.
Here's my contribution for Illustration Friday
This weeks topic is LEAP.
I chose to upload this piece of art as i feel that often we do hold on to our hopes and dreams and cherish them dearly.
But we do sometimes need to be brave,
to be daring
and take a LEAP
out of our comfort zone
out the the dream zone
and bring a goals and dreams into the realms of the real
check your dreams firmly into the REALITY HOTEL and take a brave LEAP. :)

LOST YOUR GLASSES IS IT ALL
BLURRY

Check out Robert Krampf

And his emergency glasses.
You will need:

1. someone that needs glasses
2. a piece of stiff paper or aluminum foil or even a leaf
3. a needle, pin, or sharp nail

And simply watch the video or follow the link to his site for detailed instructions.

ROBERT KRAMPF

MARK SLATERS SKETCHBLOG AND JOURNAL

I am loving Mark Slaters take on batman villians He is such a fabulous artist and well worth a peek
He has created some amazing portraits too including
CLINT EASTWOOD,
GERARD WAY,
(the wonderful)CARY GRANT,
and a fabulous DAVID GROHL
find his wonderful sketch blog here
MARK SLATERS SKETCHBLOG AND JOURNAL

DO YOU DREAM
why not check out this cool dream analyzer
The Curious Dreamer Dream Analyzer uses the 12,000+ symbol dream dictionary and associated interpretation resources. Create your own free dream interpretation using the online dream analyzer!

http://www.thecuriousdreamer.com/dreamanalyzer.php

AMAZING GRAPHITE ARTIST
GENE PLOSS

Getting back to the subject of aceo's and artists trading cards take a look at GENE PLOSS an amazingly tallented graphite artist

here is his bio in his own words
I am a fine artist and illustrator living in Buffalo, New York with my lovely wife Janice. I sell my work on ebay and do commissioned pieces on a regular basis. I also have a long term illustration project for bibleoftheday.com




http://www.geneploss.blogspot.com/

Akiane Kramarik


Ten-year-old prodigy Akiane Kramarik shares her artwork, poetry, and the fascinating story surrounding her talent.
Growing up in a home with an atheistic mother and a non-participating Catholic father did not stop four-year-old Akiane Kramarik from finding God. This girl's dreams began a conversation in the home that has eventually brought them all to Christianity and the world's attention. Akiane: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry is a collection of the best of Akiane's full-color paintings and poetry created from ages 4 to 10, along with details of her family and the amazing stories that surround each unique artwork. Already a media professional, Akiane has been interviewed on programs such as Oprah, World News Tonight, Lou Dobbs Tonight on CNN, and Schuller's Hour of Power. Akiane will be one of twenty visual artists participating in the October "Listen" event raising money for the world's needy children. Today Akiane's art is available online at www.artakiane.com

Fancy a beautiful portrait of your pet well click the banner above and head on over to Melanie Phillips website. She is an amazing artist and produces some of the finest pet portraits.
A little more about Melanie below.....

MELANIE PHILLIPS

Melanie Phillips is a professional animal and wildlife artist. She was accepted for one of the few places available on the Natural History Illustration course at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design and trained under a variety of prestigious artists. She passed with distinctions and now runs her own successful business as an animal portrait artists along with her partner Nick Beall whom she met at art college, and is also a portrait artist.

Melanie joined the team of London art college course artists about 10 years ago and has written and tutored a variety of courses including the young artists courses and the coloured pencil course. Due to the success of her own business and her artwork, she now concentrates on the Pet Portrait course and the Young Artist courses she has written and illustrated, to which she devotes a lot of time guiding her students in the right direction.

The majority of her portrait commissions come from America and she enjoys creating portraits in a variety of mediums. She uses Graphite Pencil, Coloured Pencil, Pastel and Acrylic however she is best known for her Oil paintings on canvas.

Her website is -

I'm evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they're letting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog.

It covers:

• The best blogging techniques.
• How to get traffic to your blog.
• How to turn your blog into money.

I'll let you know what I think once I've had a chance to check it out. Meanwhile, go grab yours while it's still free.

Get Creating...check out this fabulous project and make some art today.

100 Artists Project

The idea behind the 100 Artists Project came from the 1000 Journals Project. The idea of getting a large number of people involved was appealing and so it was brought up on the comic art creation message board Penciljack as a way to possibly collect art and donate the funds from the sale of the art to charitable organizations.

The charities we've chosen this time around are the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and The Hero Initiative. Both these foundations help comic book and cartoon artists and they are both non-profit. Once all the art is collected and either auctioned or sold at a print-on-demand store, all the proceeds will go to these groups.

The project consists of a couple phases:

• The Big Mailer - This is the original idea and also the most ambitious. We take one sketchbook and mail it to 100 different artists. Each one adds to it in their own way and then mails it along until all 100 pages of the book are filled. The book is returned and each page is scanned. The sketchbook is auctioned off and the buyer pays directly to the foundations through MissionFish. Next, the scanned art will be sent to an online book binding and POD store front (more than likely Lulu) where it will be assembled, bounnd and sold at their store front. Again, the sales will be sent via Paypal directly to the funds.

• The Single Mailer - This part is simpler and was called for when we realized the Big Mailer could take years to finish and has a higher possibility of not being completed. In this phase, the 100 artists send in a single page of art. The art is sent to a binder to create a single book. After that the process is the same and the book is auctioned and then after the auction it is sold online.

The idea is the art is worth more because it's traveled so far and the books are wroth more because they are not just assemblings of different pieces of work, but work that's traveled a distance and done knowing that a good cause awaits them.

We decided two projects were needed because, while we're all honest people, there is the likelihood that a single sketchbook will either not survive 100 mailings or be lost or stolen. We're padding the project with the less problematic Single Mailer so we can actually get something done.

Eventually, we'll have smaller books that folks can sign up to work on. On the Sign Ups page there will soon be an option to sign up for the Single Mailer, the Small Mailer or the Big Mailer. As long as we can keep the project rolling, we can keep funds going to these great organizations.

A graphite drawing entitled THE EYES HAVE IT. Created using a 2b and 4b pencil this took a long time about 10 hours work and re-work. Its a3 in size

A red pepper still life in coloured pencils

An attempt at drawing Pete Wentz from Fall Out Boy. created using colored pencils on grey paper

YOU CAN DRAW THE EYES NOSE AND MOUTH.
WITH LEN HAVERLY

Let Len Haverly show you how to draw the eyes nose and mouth.
From his how to draw series