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Last-day-of-the-holidays Doodles (experiments with blobs part 9)

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Here are some final blob doodles to mark the end of the school holidays and back to work tomorrow (not to mention the piles of washing). I painted some more spiky blobs this time thinking that they might do well for some more birds, just for fun. The curvy spikes have served well in most cases as wings and beaks.

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The colours did not work very beautifully on this one. But here is a little Carnivore Bird Thing finding his legs… or his dinner.

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This is another Little Carnivore. I like his colours much better.

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Little Duck Thing with Big Feet. (This blob is really very small.)

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With all those babies, it’s only fitting to have a Mumsy kind of bird. This is a Mummy Trouserbird. She is waiting for her babies to catch up, but they are not very quick on their feet.

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This is a Daddy Pyjamabird. He’s getting up for a midnight snack. (note: At night a Trouserbird is called Pyjamabird.)

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This is a Trouserbird wearing a parachute.

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This is a Preposterous Thing. what can I say? He is lucky to be anything, considering that not long ago, he was merely a blob.

walrussy thing judywatsonart loresThis is a walrussy thing. He may be depressed due to the fact that his tusk is coming out of the wrong place and causes him discomfort.

 

 

Cloudy Days in Melbourne

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Winter has finally arrived in Melbourne. And the 52 Week Illustration Challenge theme is clouds.

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I didn’t have to do anything extra for the Challenge this week really. I am working with clouds all the time for Thunderstorm Dancing, and although I can’t post an entire image until the book is published, I did post a fragment of the spread I was working on, which features approaching storm clouds (below). Froth, spatter, roar and hum.

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This spread was finished until my Beloved told me that the veranda perspective needed alteration… the same veranda that the Cat Called Thunder is trotting across. So I will finish it (again) today.

I’m not saying I relate to that cranky terrier up the top. Not at all. Nope. And I do appreciate the help with perspective.

I did find myself wandering off to do cloud blob doodles to cheer myself up though.

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Monster cloud blobs…

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Wolf cloud blobs, crossing raging rapids…

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Bird cloud blobs… one of whom just might possibly be a vulture cloud blob… (Should that be who or whom?)

bizarre cloud animalsAnd lastly this rather bizarre Cloud Blob Doodle which in fact I had done a week or two ago as a variation on the blob improvisation idea. Wherever that photo was taken, it wasn’t Melbourne this week.