Dark Crystal CLouds of Winter

Blue Hair, Blue Thoughts; featured on a chilly wintery treasury on etsy.

Blue Hair, Blue Thoughts.

This one was a submission to a doodling challenge on the Doodlers Doing Doodles team on etsy. You can vote for mine (or someone else's, of course) on this web site...

http://www.acepolls.com/polls/1233759-which-is-your-favorite-interpretation-of-the-theme-hair

handful of skies

handful of skies, originally uploaded by Donna Nicholson-Arnott.

Via Flickr:
Made for the Team We Draw October Challenge, The City.
The city is different from the suburbs in a number of ways, but the thing I notice most nowadays is the shape of the sky; it's a narrow irregular wedge in the city, and it's different on every street.
(I think this project might grow some more...)

I'd taken some shots of these drawings on friday, to post them on etsy. But it was late, and I used the anglepoise for light, and didn't think they worked. So the next day I took these in the daylight.
(Coinciding with flickr's downtime.)

I've been toying with user settings on the camera, to try and cut down some of the pp time. I shifted the colour balance a little further towards green, and dropped the saturation. (Then I forgot I'd had the white balance set for fluorescent light the night before, and that's given it the lovely lilacyblue hue, which I left because I quite liked it.)

Featured in another coffee themed treasury!

Some date

Some date, originally uploaded by Donna Nicholson-Arnott.

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Drawn for the We Draw august team challenge on etsy.com.
I can honestly say I would not have made this one without the challenge. Really, I'm not even remotely sure where this came from in my head.
But there she is, sad little mule-clown. Waiting. Waiting; waiting for that long-overdue Harlequin. I hope he doesn't become irrecoverable...

Featured in a coffee related treasury on etsy!

The first 'we draw' team treasury!

Made by 'we draw' member Coramantic.
My little non-dancing bear is in there too, thanks Yvonne!

It's not that I don't like giclee...

(I never intended to start a drawing team on etsy. I went looking for a drawing team to join on etsy. I couldn't find one.

And so,

was born, and I'm now captain of an etsy team about drawing. Here is my first rant, it is about giclee, which I actually like very much indeed.)

" Of course I like giclee, and yes it absolutely has a place in broadening the price bracket of a piece of art; you have the original for sale at 100%, you have a giclee for 25%, and some notelets or postcards for 5%. For example. So, your customer can be anyone, not just the ones with more disposable income.

And then, you might have already sold the original, so all anyone else can have is a reproduction, and giclee is a darn fine reproduction. I'm just a bit tired of looking at some of the etsy shops full of prints, and as a buyer, if I have a spare £40 one month, I'd rather blow the lot on one small original from a favourite shop. As a seller, I want to be one in a brave set of sellers, who have he guts to part with the originals, because (in my humble op) that's really what being a practising artist is about. Surely nobody wants only a collection of digital prints? I'll get off the soapbox now. Thanks for reading. :) "

See the team on etsy...

Coffee and Water T-Shirt

So, a bit of drawing with a coffee, combined with some marketing type thought, and the coffee and water t-shirt was born.

This is my friend Clare modelling it for the shoot. And it's my first live item on my new etsy shop! I'm excited!