Hello friends, just a quick photography post on this lovely sunny Friday. Isn’t this an absolutely stellar view?
You really could be any where in the world, when I’m at this particular spot I like to think that I’m on a magical tropical island in the middle of nowhere!
Just a short art post this week, this coming Monday (May 23rd ) is World Turtle Day.
I love turtles they are magical creatures and won’t be around much longer if we don’t look after them.
World Turtle Day was created so that people could celebrate turtles (and tortoises) and their sadly disappearing habitats. I melded it with my love for Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series and this is what my brain came up with.
“Through the fathomless deeps of space swims the star turtle Great A’Tuin…”
Floating ever onwards through space, the occupants of its castle gaze happily at the universe and other distant stars.
Drawn with a 0.1 and 0.3 fine line black ink pen, I’m really quite pleased with it and may even colour it in!
I hope you enjoyed this weeks post, it was a lot of fun to come up with. Do you have any suggestions on colours for the turtle or think things can be improved?
Thanks so much for reading, have a great week.
Greetings my friends and a joyous and peaceful Sunday to you! This weeks post is all about the beach and seeing as the weather has been so good I thought I’d share some recent snaps.
So enjoy some seaside photography…I hope these photos bring as much sunshine to your day as much as they did mine.
Did you know that beaches are made from their surround and can be identified by the materials they are made of – like a finger print, how cool is that!
Hello my friends, this weeks post is about about one of my all time favourite book characters – the Caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland!
And while the original Sir John Tenniel illustrations are in black and white in the book the Caterpillar is described as being blue (and precisely 3 inches tall) so I thought that this weeks posts should all have blue tones. Theres a couple of cute drawings, some hand lettering art of “How Doth the Little Crocodile” and a brilliant Terry Pratchett quote!
So, enjoy some blue toned caterpillar/mushroom related art…
Hello and happy Friday friends! I’ve been on a bit of a tech detox from everything but my camera, which has been amazing – it helped that the weather was been good and that I didn’t want to be inside! But now I’m back in the real world and since today is Earth Day 2022 I thought I’d share some rather nice beach photography with you.
It’s amazing how a little bright sunlight effects the way we see the world. Gone are the dark bleak days of December here is the lush sunlight of April (until it starts raining of course!)
Anyway, enjoy some beach/earth related photography and a couple of ocean related pages from my sketchbook…
Hello and happy Friday friends! Sorry for the lack of posts lately but changing my url threw up a few challenges with my site and I though that it was best to get the issues sorted before posting anything else! But it gave me a chance to tweak a few things that I’d already posted and I’ve been able to redesign my avatar!
Seeing as this is my first post since the start of meteorological spring I thought I’d share some flower photography with you.
Its amazing how autumn is my favourite season until spring and summer arrive in full force and the beautiful colours of regrowth bloom and all the bees come back…even this early in the year there are bees in the garden and quite a lot of butterflies!
So, enjoy some floral photography…
These are two of my favourite plants to grow the little white daisy type flowers are camomile and the other is actually a runner bean flowers – they both attracted so many bees last year! Runner bean flowers in particular are so delicate and watching them slowly creep over the green house frame was amazing.
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Hello my friends and happy Friday! Just a short photography post this week. I hope life is treating you with compassion and respect! Changing the url threw up a few issues with my site and google has had to re-crawl everything, so I though by not posting few a couple of weeks might be helpful.
The weather has been so up and down recently, it’s quite depressing really.
So when I found myself with a dry sunny evening I couldn’t help but get my camera out.
The sunset over the river was amazing, especially as the swans were still about. Although Autumn is my favourite season, thankfully spring is almost here and it will be summer soon, so hopefully the weather will be a little dryer and less grey.
The smoothness of the sky is contrasted so nicely against the blackness of the distant trees, I love how the colours change from light to dark, with the little duck in silhouette against the ripples of the water.
I really hope you enjoyed these pictures.
Thanks so much for reading and have a wonderful weekend.
Hello my friends, I hope the past week has treated you with love and respect!
Alice in wonderland is and has always been one of my favourite things in the world, the story is fun, the original art was truly incredible and the 1951 Disney movie was my second favourite film as a child (the top spot belonged to Sleeping Beauty!)
So this week I thought I post not 1 or 2, but 10 pieces of Alice in Wonderland related art.
Firstly, if you’ve read my other art posts then you’ll know just how much I love my set of Arteza brush pens. They work like normal colouring pens but instead of a felt tip they have a brush one (as the name implies!) but can be used with water to create watercolour paint – its so nice to have an amazing array of colours with the need to carry around all the little watercolour paint blocks, plus the colours are super vibrant too!
‘The little Blue Caterpillar’ sat on a Fly agaric mushroom complete with a few tufts of grass, is first drawn with ink and then block coloured.
If it hasn’t been mentioned before I love calligraphy art and hand lettering ‘The Secret Alice’ quote is from the Disney movie, but it’s not actually in the book and wasn’t written by Lewis Carroll. But, as quotes go it’s a lovely one and it meant I could write ‘Alice in Wonderland’ in gold ink within the design!
‘I want a clean cup’ is drawn to look like a teacup, using 4 shades of blue watered to a very thin consistency and then written with a calligraphy pen.
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Hello friends and happy Saturday! A while ago I decided to see if I could find anything magical to photograph and went out in the wilderness where I found a little patch of grassland fungi! These beautiful mushrooms were so tiny and their colours seemed so vivid against the green of the grass (especially in December!). And then I thought instead to just editing them, why not manipulate them in Affinity to try and create some interesting patterns.
So, enjoy some wild foraging symmetry…
Hello friends, I hope the week treated you well.
This weeks post is just a short art one. This is a pencil drawing of Terry Pratchett’s The Death of Rats also known as the Grim Squeaker. If you haven’t read the books I totally recommend them! I’m quite pleased with this little drawing! Drawn with Windsor & Newton drawing pencils.
Hello my friends, I hope you had a safe and joyful new year! Lots has been happening here – I’ve changed my url to artymissk.com (it feels so cool to be .com) and I thought that I’d kick off my first real post of the year with some photo editing.
I really love black and white images – they feel timeless so I thought I’d have a go at editing the swan photos that I took last year.
Hello my friends, I hope you’re having a prosperous start to 2022!
I know the Friday’s are normally post days but this is an extra little one as I finally made the decision to change my domain and blog name.
My former name of kareynolds .net has been a dear friend since way back in March 2013 (I can’t believe that’s basically a decade!) but I decided that artymissk.com was a good step forward in my blogging life as it relates to my Twitter/DeviantArt/Tumblr/YouTube accounts. It was so easy to do and yet I’ve been putting it off for ages.
What do you think of the new name and artwork?
I hope you continue to follow my blog and join me on my artistic and photographic journey.
On this beautiful Christmas Eve I’d like to wish everyone a truly Merry Christmas and a Happy Hogswatch, this is a little illustration of the Grim Squeaker (AKA The Death of Rats) from Terry Pratchett’s who appears throughout the Discworld series from Reaper Man onwards. I’ve drawn him as the Hogfather to celebrate 50 years of Terry.
I hope all of your dreams come true.
Mind how you go!
Terry Pratchett
Happy Friday friends! In a bid to hold onto the last of this years sunshine (before winter completely sets in) I decided to see if I could find anything magical to photograph and while out in the wilderness I found a very lovely little patch of grassland fungi! These beautiful mushrooms were tiny and their colours seemed so vivid against the green of the grass. I love fungi there are so many species and colours and they grow in the most unlikely places.
So, enjoy some wild foraging photography…and a few doodles…
This is one of my favorites from the shoot. I love how simple and stock-photography-like it looks. The way the light hits the mushroom and the sunlight through the grass just feels so natural…
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Hello friends, today is the 10th of December and twenty years ago Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring premiered in London, so I decided to join my love of Tolkien with my love for embroidery and recreate the map of Middle Earth. (I’m too scared to iron it incase I burn it!)
Hello my friends, I truly believe Mute Swans to be the most magical and gentle of wild birds. These beautiful birds are one of the heaviest British birds and can grow as heavy as 14kg and have a wingspan of 2.4 metres (over 7ft), it’s the largest of our British wildfowl species. I love swans they have so many myths and stories and float about all gracefully on the water.
So, enjoy some calming nature photography…
Remember when you were told not to feed the stray cats…well I started feeding the birds by the river – not bread, because that’s bad for them, I feed them Wildthings Swan and Duck Food because it floats. now they assume I have food all the time and will follow me!
I thought I’d try and put together a little collection of things to these amazing birds.
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Hello lovelies, I genuinely think autumn is my favourite season the colours and textures are just so amazing. This beautiful tree is an old friend standing in the autumn sun…aren’t trees just magical, being all leafy and sucking carbon from the atmosphere. This is one of my favourites, although the colours of summer lingered a lot later than normal.
Enjoy some warm and calming autumn colours…
I thought I’d try and put together a little collection of things relating to this old tree.
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Hello friends, just a short art post this week.
The White Rabbit was illustrated by Sir John Tenniel for ‘Alice’s adventures in Wonderland’ by Lewis Carroll in 1866. I absolutely love his illustrations, so this is my attempt at Sir John’s White rabbit of Hearts. I’m quite pleased with it! Drawn with Winsor & Newton Indian ink.
“Near the King was the White Rabbit with a trumpet in one hand, and a scroll of parchment in the other.“
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Hello friends, Today is Remembrance Day, Armistice Day is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I. My Granddad actually fought in WW2. Admittedly he had lied about his age but at only fifteen still stood up to serve his country, he was supposed to have received medals but refused them saying that the medals belonged to those who hadn’t come home.
Lest We Forget.
Hello my lovelies, just a short art post this week.
Alice in wonderland has long been one of my favourite things in the world so continuing my experimenting with water colours to try and bring more green and nature inside in the winter and combining my love of all things green with my love of calligraphy and quotes, they don’t take long to do, but look really effective against a white wall – my funny little brain likes to pretend its alchemy!
ArtyMissK 
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