Mothers Day World Turtle {Art}

On March 17, 2023March 17, 2023 By ArtyMissKIn Art, World Turtles9 Comments

Hello friends!

This coming Sunday is Mothers Day (in the UK) and one of the things I’ve always done is make something for my mum, I decided a while back that I wanted to paint her something which evolved into a new World Turtle illustration, that I want to share with you.

This is the fifth World Turtle and my growing collection now contains Spring, Autumn, Winter and Valentines illustrations and now I can add a Mothers day one too!!!

So this painting features not one, but three World Turtles – a mummy and two hatchlings! As its a mothers day themed painting I wanted there to be a lot of pink and flowers – so its kinda incorporating all the colours you’d find in a bouquet. Foliage wise the trees and bushes are in bright shades of green.

The Summer World Turtle has a sun deck and Autumn has a star gazing platform, but for this one I wanted the main mummy turtle to have lots of flowers growing in the grass, the sun deck is back (as I’m impatiently waiting for the sun to come out!) and I’ve added a little ledge for pot plants!

Another thing I quite enjoyed was deciding that obviously the castle would grow with the turtle so that they are more size appropriate – the girly one is only really a simple tower while the little one is more of a shed!!

Its A3 sized like the others (A3 is a great size to work with) and the process is started by lightly sketching with a HB pencil and then drawn ‘properly’ using a calligraphy ink pen with Windsor & Newton Black Indian ink. Because there are two quite small turtles in this illustration they’re a bit fiddly and details are drawn with a 0.1 fine liner.

Its then painted using Arteza watercolours and brush pens – which I absolutely love the only thing I’d say is a lot of the pinks seem pretty much the same colour!

Well, that pretty much wraps it up for this week…What do you think? I’d love some feedback on my World Turtles are they a bit weird? Something I’ve been experimenting with is moving their pupils as is changes the whole feel of the painting….next week I’m thinking of posting a new One Frame of a recent garden visitor.

Thanks for checking out this art post and as always I wish you a wonderful week, may it be filled with love and happiness!

ps. Happy Mothering Sunday!!

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Valentines World Turtles {Art}

On February 10, 2023March 17, 2023 By ArtyMissKIn Art, World Turtles8 Comments

Hello friends!

This coming Tuesday is Valentines day and I decided a while back that I wanted to create some love themed art so this week I wanted to share a new illustration with you. My growing collection of World Turtles now contains Spring, Autumn and Winter illustrations and I thought why not create a Valentines day one too!!!

So this painting features two World Turtles – As its a love themed I wanted the colours to reflect the theme of love – using lots of reds and pinks. Foliage wise the trees in vibrant shades of green and help to create a heart in the negative space between the turtles.

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Winter World Turtle {Art}

On December 9, 2022March 17, 2023 By ArtyMissKIn Art, World Turtles2 Comments

Hello my friends!!

I said I’d started this painting and here it is!

This weeks post is as the name suggests a Winter World Turtle – and the third World Turtle illustration.

As this one is winter themed I wanted the colours to reflect the time of year – the snow is painted using white ink and acrylic with a very pale ice blue watercolour. There are even some tiny icicles hanging from the turtles’ shell.

I wanted the trees to reflect the time of year so I made a few of them flop to the side – as if they’re weighed down by heavy snow! Its funny we don’t really get ‘proper’ snow where I live, if we’re lucky winter may grace the area with a very light dusting, but that’s it and its always such a disappointment!!

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Autumn World Turtle {Art}

On November 18, 2022March 17, 2023 By ArtyMissKIn Art, World TurtlesLeave a comment

Hello friends!

A couple of weeks have slipped by without me posting – they flashed pass so quickly its unreal (I don’t know how some weeks can disappear in the blink of an eye and yet some days can last a lifetime)

This week I wanted to share a new painting. Back in July I posted the finished watercolour painting of ‘A World Turtle’ and thought, why not do a turtle for each season!

As its autumn I wanted the colours of the foliage to reflect the time of year – November here is a bit nippy but the trees are beautiful as they change colour. I’ve even tried to include little piles of leaves that have been swept together – even if they look like bushes!

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A World Turtle {Art}

On July 1, 2022March 17, 2023 By ArtyMissKIn Art, World TurtlesLeave a comment

Hello friends!

Just a little art post this week, for world turtle day (23rd May) I posted a pen illustration of a World Turtle. Well, I’ve actually finished it and I am so happy with this painting!! I wanted the trees to reflect the colourings of the turtle – which I decided had to be a greenish-blue and tried to give the castle a natural stone effect.

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A World Turtle {Art}

On May 20, 2022March 17, 2023 By ArtyMissKIn Art, World TurtlesLeave a comment

Hello my friends and happy Friday!

You may or may not know that 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. I suppose that wasn’t helped by sailors eating them – I think Darwin famously struggled to bring them back from the Galapagos to the UK because they kept eating them on the voyage! (I mean they’re beautiful but don’t exactly look appetising do they?!)

Anyhoo, World Turtle Day was created so that people could celebrate turtles (and tortoises) and their sadly disappearing habitats. I remember as a child my neighbour had a tortoise and use to pout it in a shoebox on the winter to hibernate – which as a kid was hilarious because it would wear your shoes if it found them!

So I decided to draw myself a World Turtle.

The World-bearing Turtle myth is actually Chinese mythology and Native American folklore. Of course one of my favourite authors (one Sir Terry Pratchett) imagined the Discworld which is carried on the back of a giant space turtle, the Great A’tuin. And of course we did (historically speaking) believe the earth was flat at one point in time.

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