pickture

i like to make things :-) ✨ etsy store✨ 🌐 website 🌐 [side blog]

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snake dreams watercolour

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roots

colour pencil on a watercolour base

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my Tribute

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commission for my friend of their sweet shih tzu Doni

colour pencil on A4 paper

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watching tv

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a special commission of a kitty called Nadya- her owner had the cool idea of her wearing a traditional ukrainian outfit, which was definitely a (good) challenge!!

acrylic painting on 10x12" canvas board

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added some bread loaf kitty pins to my store 🍞🐱

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the long awaited sequel to the cowboy cat pin.. say hello to cowboy frog!! 🐸

etsy store

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the tragedy of etsy evilly deleting my original (popular) cowboy cat pin listing and having to make a new one that receives no views.. ive been nerfed.. just when i ordered new stock :') also ive seen it being ripped off on other sites which i knew was inevitable but still damages me spiritually.... anyway the pin is back and since etsy seo hates me now im going to yell about my cowboy Here 🤠

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etsy deleted it again.. i am officially Fucked Off.

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so etsy will not let me relist my own pin design because their bots flag it as ‘not handmade’ due to it being counterfeited by other people online. they refuse to acknowledge that i own the design. apparently it’s impossible to get through to a real human through etsy support and if you do then they don’t give a fuck about you anyway.

‘friendly reminder’ that etsy’s repeated mistakes can lead to the seller being permanently punished 💖

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the tragedy of etsy evilly deleting my original (popular) cowboy cat pin listing and having to make a new one that receives no views.. ive been nerfed.. just when i ordered new stock :') also ive seen it being ripped off on other sites which i knew was inevitable but still damages me spiritually.... anyway the pin is back and since etsy seo hates me now im going to yell about my cowboy Here 🤠

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etsy deleted it again.. i am officially Fucked Off.

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black sheep watercolour

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In Search of Crumbs acrylic paint & color pencil on paper, 29x29cm 

prints

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i've added a few prints to my store! just 5 to start with but i'll order more if needed :-)

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hi! do you sell any prints of In Search of Crumbs?

i’ll have a few prints going up on my store soon, ty for your interest! :-)

update: prints are here

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turn the key watercolour (23x23cm)

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Hello! I saw some of your colored pencil works and I really love your style! I myself am trying to get into colored pencils as a medium and I just wanted to ask what resources or tips do you have for someone who's an intermediate drawer but a novice with color and colored pencils

thank you!! i don’t have any specific resources but when i first got ‘serious’ about colour pencils i did research into oil vs wax based (eg prismacolor) pencils before buying a set. i use faber castell polychromos because i prefer the qualities of oil based pencils, but it’s all down to personal preference

paper type also affects pencil drawings greatly, if you want texture & a lot of layers, go for a rougher tooth, and if you want minimal white spots at the cost of fewer layers use smooth paper (i use bristol board for pet portraits)

you can also experiment with using pencil on top of watercolour/marker etc bases or coloured paper, e.g. for this deer drawing i did a watercolour base which you can see in this vid

with paint people say to start with fewer colours and learn how to mix but for pencil i would say get as many colours as you can bc the only ‘mixing’ you can do is layering and there’s a limit to how many layers your paper (and hand) can take. its also hard to buy the missing colours later without rebuying the ones you already have. you can def make do with a smaller set if you want to do highly stylized art

'burnishing' is good to know about

for colour in general i think just study art that uses colour in a way you like, the principles will be similar across mediums. i don’t really believe in right or wrong ways to do things, as long as you’re achieving what you want. if you don’t know where to start, i recommend checking out james gurney, he has painting vids on youtube which give an interesting insight into how he uses colour. i just found a vid which shows him combining watercolour and coloured pencils

also find colour pencil art you like and think about how it was made. i love @ink-the-artist ‘s pencil art, i think they use marker bases in some of theirs and it gives it a rly saturated warm look (esp ones w yellow bases) & i love how the darkness is made up of different colours. they use prismacolor which gives it that waxy blended look

sorry this is kind of a word vomit, i hope at least some of it is useful to you. good luck with your colour journey! ♡

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just put these new celestial willowy deer pins up on my store! :-) ✨link✨

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flower crown acrylic painting on 10x12" canvas