You can see the colour story in the bottom right

I like to finalize what those colours will be before going into the final layers of these pieces. As I want and like a more graphic decorative feel to the pieces, knowing my colour story before hand (after trying various iterations) informs what colours will go where in the final piece.

As with my other chair series pieces, I like the animals to be either in digital oil or watercolour.

The contrast of their more 'real' (fairly loosely interpreted) amidst the flat graphic nature of the rest of the piece is what I really enjoy.

This piece will also have a patterned background, which I have also tried various versions of.

Here is one of the sketches I shared before laying out this piece:

I really love going from sketchy art journal work to graphic finalization.

As these pieces are meant to be ON things from clothing to housewares as well as prints I think such combinations just work well.

Having only a few stolen hours each morning of late for things, I have been not as active on Steemit as I should like to be, but I find if I set a timer in the morning and then get to a few, I can enjoy them more and feel less rushed to speed through all the posts I'd like.

In this morning's perusal I came across this wonderful post from our good fellow Steemit artist @natureofbeing. She poses some interesting questions for all of we creatives and you should check it out. Her final question sort of had me thinking this morning. She asked:

I'd really like to hear what these words spark in you....what do you see as life-giving paradigms for creatives as a whole and what are the destructive forces you observe or experience?

My response to this query was long winded

and I was going to share it here today as part of my post, but on second reading it seemed a bit dark and I think I might delete it from her comments section as well. Typing out how I truly feel about our current state of the world, one in which I think we've been moving into for a long time, did give me pause; and not the cute paws like on my animal drawings, if you know what I mean. And finding postivity is usually the better place to be, I decided against it.
Anyway, you should pop over there and give answer to that question. It's a good one and I'm excited to see what others answer or think upon it.

Well, that is me for today. I hope all of you find time to consider @natureofbeing question and also find time to be unplugged and creative today.

If you feel so inclined please upvote, resteem, and by all means comment below.

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More Layers in my Latest Animals in Chairs Frenchi

You can see the colour story in the bottom right

As with my other chair series pieces, I like the animals to be either in digital oil or watercolour.

Here is one of the sketches I shared before laying out this piece:

I really love going from sketchy art journal work to graphic finalization.

My response to this query was long winded