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I've been painting with arcrylics on paper lately and am surprised at how great a surface it is. This gives my moleskines a whole new dimension.
An old photo which must date from about January 2006 or even earlier. that I found lurking in an old file on the laptop! The small scene shown here marked the end of an era, as my modelling activities were soon to take different directions and methods.
It shows a small corner of a large Underground layout that was built in the loft of my house in Grays. Although fully operational , scenery was in the main, quite minimal. (Photos of an earlier completed layout may be found in my album 'Cromwell Road Underground layout.')
By this time, I had begun to widen my interests from the Underground and I had my Kingsway Subway tram layout completed ready for exhibition.
Oxford Diecast models had yet to appear with 1/72 Cararama vehicles evident in the photo along with the EFE RT. I was at this time still seeking out old 1/76-ish Lesney vehicles for repaint and refurbishment.
However, this is a reasonably pleasing scene and the printed background blends nicely with the buildings.
In those days, my buildings were one offs built mainly from plasticard, although the 'nasty' hand lettering on the station building makes me cringe now!
The 'Silcocks' wall advert behind was an early experiment with computer printed material using Microsoft Paint, and showed the way forward.
In the coming months I refined this method and designed what was later to become my first Kingsway Models kit - Kingston bus station.
A further tram layout (Dog Kennel Hill) followed in due course and my scratchbuilt plasticard Underground train models were boxed away. The Dog Kennel Hill flats gave me some practice in designing larger card buildings - and were another step in the journey to Kingsway.
Here's my finished coffee design, all ready to be made into a giclée print.
All the elements in the design have been hand drawn in pencil, then scanned in, with colour added in photoshop.
The shapes and swirls are designed to reflect the lovely shapes the barista makes in the creamy flat whites at my favourite coffee shop.
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working." - Pablo Picasso
"Inspiration" (2012)
11"x14" mixed media on canvas
by Mae Chevrette
This was so much fun... halfway through this canvas nearly ended up in the trash because I couldn't get it to "work." Played around a little and brought it back to where I wanted it :)
Prints available in my Etsy shop
Blogged here: togointotheworld.blogspot.com/2012/04/three-new-spring-pr...
Commissioned painting for my dear friends and newlyweds The Zumwalts!
Casey & Laura are wedding photographers.
22" x 30" watercolor and charcoal
Day 77 of 100 days of lettering, I couldn't think of anything to write and I've got a million things to do, help!
My friend Matt Orr has been serving in the Peace Corpse in Ukraine for almost two years. In our email exchanges he always makes me laugh.
The We're Here! gang is hand-lettering today, on the anniversary of Johannes Gutenberg's death (Feb. 3, 1468).
This drawing goes out to all those people who drank coffee before it was the cool thing to do (you know who you are). I also want to give a shout out to @mikemcchillin, who provided me with this great line, Amen broth!
A thoughtful mum from the US ordered these cards to send to her son who's just joined the Navy, it's almost like they were made for him : )