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Day 7 of #marchmeetthemaker2022. Todays prompt is “favourite” so I thought I’d share my most favourite recent make. This is a little underwater scene I painted in my @pithsupply sketchbook (very tolerant to slapping down a lot of paint!) _ I’ve been revisiting some old ideas lately and looking at them with a new perspective. This one comes from a tiny story I wrote about a man and his dream of having an underwater restaurant 🐟 _ #carveouttimeforart #sketchbookdrawing #sketchbookpage #illustrationart #illustrationartists #drawdaily #sketchbook #illustratorsofinstagram #artistsoninstagram #createeveryday #creativityeveryday #illustration_best #dailydoodle #dailyillustration #sketchbookskool #makearteveryday #everydayinspiration #pithsupply #underwater #oceanfloor #underthesea #marchmeetthemaker (at Edinburgh, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CazXoNOKFl4/?utm_medium=tumblr

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A belated day 4 for #MarchMeetTheMaker2022 Friday’s prompt was “3 things…” There are soo many trios I could share but let’s go with my 3 favourite things to forage for on a woodland walk 🌲 acorns, pinecones, and mushrooms! 🍄 At the end of last year, I was really happy to be able to go back to the Edinburgh Printmakers and start screen printing again. This little mushroom print is one of the prints I worked on. I think I’d like to try some different colours and maybe add some more spots when I try it again (I added some extra spots afterwards on procreate 😉) . . . . . . #printmaking #screenprinting #fantasticfungi #marchmeetthemaker #printmakersofig #mushrooms #createeveryday #carveouttimeforart #artistsoninstagram #printmakersofinstagram #makersgonnamake #makesomething #edinburghprintmakers (at Edinburgh Printmakers) https://www.instagram.com/p/CaxQW9PKk7H/?utm_medium=tumblr

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So today is the first day of#MarchMeetTheMaker2022 and I decided it was a good time to introduce myself and show my face to all you lovely people 🥰 It’s also time for me to embrace that my art and interests have changed since I made this account and that it’s ok to start heading in a new direction. In 2012, I had a job interview during which, I was told that my work wasn’t very arty. Exactly what every artist wants to hear! Within a week, I had committed myself to a year long challenge - to draw a house everyday for a year. I called the project Draw a City and posted diligently to a tumblr blog. After I had finished the project, and in the years that followed, I began to feel paralysed by the work I had made. I felt like I couldn’t draw in a different style and I shouldn’t draw anything else. I was the girl who drew houses, but I didn’t really want to be… I want to create big painterly landscapes and tiny detailed critters. I want to make things, and animate things, photograph things. I’d like to create in lots of different ways and explore different things. There are no rules we have to follow in art and it has taken me a while to learn that. It’s ok to be a little bit of everything ☺️ #goodbyedrawacity #marchmeetthemaker https://www.instagram.com/p/Cak5-HDK5Ek/?utm_medium=tumblr

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It’s a wet and windy Sunday here in Edinburgh today so what better way to spend it than to keep cozy and draw some birds 🪶 These fellas were drawn through following a tutorial by @beccahallillustration on her Patreon page • #birdillustration #drawingoftheday #artistsoninstagram #birdsoftheworld # #traditionalmedia #instaart #animalillustration #creativitykillsoldness #mixedmedia #paintersgonnapaint #paintedillustration #artinspiration #illustrationart #illustratedlife #watercolour #dailydoodle #drawingaday #creativityeveryday (at Edinburgh, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPNuXTsni0t/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Sunset over the tiny sheep farm 🐑 Wishing I had paid more attention to what I threw onto the page for this - it started out as a materials testing session but (as with most of my sketches these days) turned into a little countryside sketch ••• #drawacity #illustration #tinysheep #drawingoftheday #artistsoninstagram #traditionalmedia #instaart #landscapeart #instaartists #artsanity #creativitykillsoldness #handcrafted #paintersgonnapaint #artshub #creativesnack #freelanceillustrator #paintedillustration #artinspiration #illustrationart #illustratedlife #landscapeillustration #paynesgreyclub #pgc https://www.instagram.com/p/CO49aZoH0PI/?igshid=1nk8603xw4k7j

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Feeling like this squirrel today as we edge closer to the weekend. I’ve taken the whole of next week off work and I cannot wait to get stuck into all of the little projects I have on my to-draw list ✏️ • Something I’ve been really keen to try more of is animation. With ALOT of help from the book The Animators Survival Kit, I drew this little running squirrel. The joy of hitting play and seeing him running is worth the hours it takes to put all the frames together - I think I might be hooked! 😍 but what to try next... 🤔 • #drawacity #animation #drawingoftheday #artoftheday #artistsoninstagram #instaart #framebyframe #instaartists #creativitykillsoldness #digitalart #artshub #creativesnack #creativityeveryday #freelanceillustrator #artinspiration #illustrationart #sketchdaily #illustratedlife #creativelifestyle #carveouttimeforart #animatorsoninstagram #paynesgreyclub #pgc (at Edinburgh, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/COOB30PHuJD/?igshid=1bapyb3esql9g

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There have been so many gorgeous sunrises and sunsets over Edinburgh since the start of the year and their colours are starting to seep into my work 👀 This tiny drawing was a little piece to practise working over chalk with paint and pencils. I really like some of the textures that have come from it (at Edinburgh, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/COIy9byHPyP/?igshid=83klnrxbuzz1

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Little throw-back to last autumn when I painted the Marine Hotel in North Berwick. A wedding gift for my gorgeous friend Rachel who got married there 🥰 @handmadeinrosemarkie https://www.instagram.com/p/CN7yiu3nVda/?igshid=1jc1wsbqcpxf1

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Another little landscape 🌿 I’ve been drawing lots of landscape pieces lately to help practise using different materials together. This one has a watercolour base with caran d’ache luminance pencil and posca pen layered on top https://www.instagram.com/p/CNiQKegnn-7/?igshid=19czjes27nggs

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I have a memory from when I was little of being out shopping with my mum and feeling something tickling my foot. I plonked myself down on the shop floor, pulled off my shoe, and gave it a shake... To my horror, a centipede fell out and scurried away 😱 Ever since then, I’ve checked my shoes for any critters that might be hiding inside 👀 https://www.instagram.com/p/CNUyAXLnaON/?igshid=rzf1xraqxdrd

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Have been drawing lots of fields and sheep lately. Think I’m missing the countryside 😂🐑 https://www.instagram.com/p/CNNxWTQHvUt/?igshid=14pj1oklv0cid

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Another little clapboard house ☺️ (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoZ2synAoea/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=11c1z2icgglvn

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Day 29 - only 1 more to go! Where has September gone? #johnvernonlord @illustrationhq (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoW9UgQAOXc/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=vtn1qchyln3b

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We’re heading back to New York today after a nice long weekend in Westport, Connecticut celebrating my childhood friend’s wedding. This little church drawing seemed appropriate for the occasion ☺️🎉 (at Westport, Connecticut) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoWsEneg3ou/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=mu22hv548bo4

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Pink on pink for day 28. #johnvernonlord @illustrationhq (at Westport, Connecticut) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoUYv2xg7Z-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1y242oem4f3eg

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A blue clapboard house for a drizzle but happy Friday. Have a good weekend all! 💫 (at Westport, Connecticut) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoRuTN8gm7z/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=c0x5rgqehvb5

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26th and 27th. Only 3 more days left of the #johnvernonlord challenge! @illustrationhq (at Westport, Connecticut) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoQDjgXg5MN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1gaf88nep7ydp