Dog Cross stitch design

I have been asked to do another cross stitch for a friend at work, so yet again I start with a drawing thats it shown below

Then using a light box I transferred the drawing to graph paper and then decided on the colours

Now I have the pattern, all I had to do is fine the right coloured cotton, me sure the aida and then stitch it, Below is the finished design,

I used a selection of full and half stitches to add depth to the drawing, I am really happy with the way this turned out, 

Seaside Picture - All Finished

I have finally finished my Seaside painting, I had a lot of fun making it and might do something else like this again. 

I used acrylic paint of it, but I watered down some of the colours. 

Sea Side Painting - Getting there

The painting is going well, I have done all that main colours now, I will now wait for this to dry and then do the details and shading, 

Here I have started to do some detail on the children, there are still some bits that need doing but it is almost done.

Seaside Painting - The Beginning

I have now started painting my that seaside picture for my friend, I have done the main colours then I will at the detail as I go along.

Painting in Progress

Here are a few shots of the final painting in progress, I have just drawn it out at the moment but I will get to the painting soon.

Seaside painting - sketch book drawings

Here is the finished drawing and painting for the sea side I am doing. Now I have the design I will drawn it out on a giant piece of canvas. More pictures are to follow.

Cross-stitch Postcards

As Part of the Degree show at Staffordshire University there is another show called Fringe that is happening along side it. Details can be seen here http://www.fringefest.org.uk.

For this all the Arts students have been given the chance to enter a post card design for the show. So I have decided to do some cross stitched post cards. I had a long think of what sort of thing I would like to do and finally settled on a backstitched image base off my power of 9 animation.

I did some designing and came up with this -

So this was the pattern I used to create my postcards. After many hours of stitching I finally finished and ended up with these,

I am really happy with them and cant wait to see them in the show.

Young and old Fly

Here are a few drawings of Fly I did using coloured pencil. I enjoy drawing younger versions of my characters because it is nice to see what they looked like when they are little. To the left is older Fly and on the right is Fly aged 12.

Some Garden Gang images.

Here are a few drawing I did for the Garden Gang project. I still need to work on Owen Onion's colour    and also experiment on what media to use. Im thinking of doing some drawing using paint to see how they look.

This picture is of Olivia Orange first discovering the "Weed" I have used coloured pencils for this and I like the way the shading has worked on the plants.