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About Judy Watson

Book illustrator and artist. Find me on Instagram at @JudyWatsonArt

The Bird Lover (take 2)

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Here’s the same subject in a very different style. I couldn’t decide on the two skirt patterns you you can make up your own minds :-)

Bella will even be able to tell me what the fabrics are called. Is my girl a soft autumn Bella? I started off going for warm autumn and then my colour palette morphed…. (obsessively drawn to soft autumn it seems)

The fashion derives from circa 1840 and the applications of partial derivatives in differential and integral calculus.

Happy Friday!

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The more demure, blue skirt print.

bird lover light floral skirt judywatsonart loresThe lighter floral print skirt echoing the snowy overlays elsewhere in the scene.

 

The Bird Lover

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Okay, this post came down. Now it’s going up again because I hear some people have linked to it. Sorry about that. Decided I wasn’t keen on it. But here it is again. Have posted plenty of warts-and-all experimental doodles before now, so why not this one?

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Strange little doodle fellow with a Tove Jansson Groke nose…

For my bird loving Mum. (I know your nose doesn’t look like this, Mum.)

Furthermore… (in for a penny, in for a pound) here’s the earlier version of this pic. Which I decided was too dark. But it has a different, more raw and slightly spooky quality. Kids could have a go at something similar to this combining scraper board techniques with collage.

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Revenge in 4 stages

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Dog performs psychological punishment.

Cat demonstrates turning the other cheek.

The 52 Week Illustration Challenge theme this week is TOY.

Happy Wednesday.

 

Week 32: PSYCHEDELIC

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Cat trouble again

Cat trouble again

I don’t know if the cat is directly responsible for this little dog’s trippy bad dream, but she is certainly doing her best to mozz him.

still busy

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Me, my work and The Undrawn Pug, hiding under the drawing table

Me, my work and The Undrawn Pug, hiding under the drawing table

Arty Birthday (and more dog tongues…)

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Soooo busy here this fortnight! Just time to post a happy birthday post to my eleven-year-old dog-loving, art-loving boy, Arthur.

Happy Birthday Arty!

The front of the card.

The front of the card. Scott had the hard job of adding the lettering as I had not left much space!!

The back of the card. Also lettered by Scott with a range of things suggested by both of us.

The back of the card. Also lettered by Scott with a range of things suggested by both of us.

Back to work now.

I finished another spread yesterday! Hooray! Getting closer.

 

 

Continuous line drawings in French

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The 52 Week Illustration Challenge theme this week is LINES. 

new hat judywatsonart colour loresThese are some line drawings done in the car during a rainy soccer training session in half darkness. I am quite pleased with them because they were done from the imagination and without any visual reference. I let the words of the french lesson lead the direction of the doodle. I tried to do them almost completely using a continuous line, except where my pen fell off the page. And above, I did some rather crude scribble in the speech balloon as well.

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And below is one of my Calculus Fashion ladies with a bit of colour added. I am quite liking the effect on the parchment and print. calculus fashion5-colour judywatsonart lores copy

Sometimes I draw quite complex continuous line drawings in my mind, while lying in bed at night. It’s very relaxing, and the resulting drawings take up very little storage space.

Occasionally I forget where I put them, because I fall asleep :-)

Calculus Doodles in Bed

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These were all done using a historical fashion book for reference and a differential calculus book as a canvas.

I first looked for interesting mathematical lines and diagrams, then found fashions that seemed to meld with them. The rest was a bit of swift improvisation. The women in the fashion book are (deliberately) bland and faceless. I added some life to the people, and altered poses, and fashion to suit the squiggles of my pen.

I do seem to find this kind of squiggling very relaxing. And it can be quite suggestive of all sorts of things… Astrakhan, embroidery, hedges…

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Busy

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working to deadlines judywatsonartI need another cup of tea.

My bottom is becoming chair shaped.

Thunder Tongue Kisses

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Lucy and the tongue

You may laugh. Oh, yes you may. But I have just spent about 45 minutes working on a tongue for this dog.

The eyes may be crucial for a book character’s expression, but with a dog, the tongue is almost as important. I have just been deciding on which tongue of six options is the best for this tender lick.

Tongue down (start of lick… looks a bit like a raspberry), tongue forwards (mid lick… too flat), tongue up (reaching for kiss… chose the best of 4 of these!) I am reminded of my school art teacher showing us slides of classical statues and paintings and explaining how the artist chose a moment for the pose that suggested both what came before and what came after, to give a sense of the full movement and life of the subject… I’ll bet Myron in the 5th Century BC never thought his Discus Thrower would influence the state of Lucy the Whippet’s tongue for Thunderstorm Dancing in the year 2014.