Back to Basics

It's been quite a crazy few months for us here at Magpie Central. I'd like to say it was all fun and games and art...but it's been sorta rough. That said, Magpie just had a milestone birthday and ready to get back in the swing of posting regularly and making art happen.

So I had our home do a 30 minute art sprint, to do anything we wanted in 30 minutes.

This was my creation:

Here was Mr. Magpie's.

It's a great way to get out of a rut and just make something anything art related. I recommend everyone who is in a craft rut to give it a go!

Sublime

Another watercolor and ink. I painted the bare background first and then when it all dried, I did a freehand drawing on it and then filled it out with ink.



I really need to work on perspective and proportion. It still needs work, but I kinda like it.

Odin ATC

I was working on a replacement for an ATC I was making for the ADF Artisan's Guild ATC swaps.

My partner is a big fan of Odin, so I drew "Old One Eye" and added Geri and Freki on the right and his signature ravens on the left.




And on the outside is text from an old Norse book.


I hope he likes it!

More paintings

Just posting random things I've drawn/painted over the last couple of days.
Practice makes...well...better.

"Girl"

"Mistletoe"

"Turn hate to love"

"Empty"

Busy 24

So I've been pretty busy the last 24 hours!

I started NaNoWriMo yesterday and hit it off by going to the first Columbus write-in. I really had a blast! I went way over the word count, but trashed a large portion of it this morning. (Bad internal editor, bad!)

And now, I've found that if I am writing anything, an e-mail, a work document, I feel like I'm cheating on NaNo. Right now would be one of those times.

But I wanted to take a second and post two pictures. One of the gi-normous wedding cake J and I made this weekend...and one of the drawing I did last week of Apollo. Also to mention that I did go out early this morning to vote and I highly encourage you to go do the same if you are American (I have a couple of Canadian followers). It is one of the best things about a democratic government and it is a privilege that not everyone in the world has. So get out there and vote!!


Yes, this is a coffin-shaped wedding cake. As was requested by the bride and groom, being married on Halloween. I have better pictures to be posted later when I have some more free time. It was close to 80 lbs of cake. Red Velvet cake with dark chocolate cream cheese icing and sculpted modeling chocolate roses.

The undertaking took two people 21+ hours of labor, 3 dozen eggs, many pounds of chocolate, flour and sugar and what was left of my sanity. But we were really proud of it and it seemed to go over well.

Here is my depiction of Apollo. He is often found depicted as a young man, long hair and carrying a wreath or a branch of laurel. As may be evident, I'm not particularly good with drawing human anatomy. But I enjoyed learning about his stories.

I had better get back to NaNo, before she becomes jealous!

Aphrodite

Here is my watercolor pencil and ink of Aphrodite.


I wanted her to be soft, but beautiful. I kinda goofed on her face a bit, when the pen I used smeared with the watercolor, which hasn't happened to me before. I might redo this one, but I was glad to have finished.

Next picture will be Apollo!