Year 3 of the 52-Week Illustration Challenge, Week 2

Week 2: Outdoors

Collage and silhouette using Ingres papers, flocked cardboard, oil pastels and nylon cord on grey Ingres background.

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Week 2: Outdoors II

"N-n-n-n-next!" Cartoon in finepoint black Sharpie, oil pastels and watercolour wash, collaged onto Ingres paper.

Week 2: Outdoors III

"Corellas' annual visit." Watercolour miniature. Masking fluid and black and white Sharpie highlights on watercolour paper. Based on my own photograph. This piece utilised an old offcut; it's only 85mm x 95mm.

Week 2: Outdoors IV

"Vasquez Rocks, Los Angeles." Watercolours with black and white Sharpie highlights on remnants of watercolour paper, mounted onto Ingres paper. Based on a photograph from my 2013 vacation album.

Return of the 52-Week Illustration Challenge, Week 47

Week 47: Play

Collage with characters drawn in black finepoint Sharpie on white linenbond card, collaged onto grey paper, with pleated paper curtains decorated in bronze Sharpie.

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Week 47: Play II

"No rabbits up my sleeve, just a few hares." Drawing in finepoint black Sharpie. Highlights in watercolour and white Puffy paint on white Quill linenbond card. Rabbit add-ons are dayglo orange stickers that scan pale.

Return of the 52-Week Illustration Challenge, Week 14

Week 14: Whimsy

"Only ten hares left on his head." Green handmade paper rabbits collaged onto a watercolour, mounted onto red flint paper. Tails added in white, three-dimensional, Tulip "Puffy" paint. Shading on the rabbits in graphite pencil. (I've been dying to make use of the little freehand-cut rabbits - from Week 9's Texture - and yesterday I suddenly realised how whimsical they might be, especially being green.)

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Freehand-cut, whimsical giraffe collage using handmade papers, plus a chenille stick mane and a necklace of "Jila" mints.

Week 14: Whimsy II

Return of the 52-Week Illustration Challenge, Week 9

Week 9: Texture

Freehand-cut rabbits as negative spaces, using handmade, textured paper with splotches of watercolour. Shapes are backed with fake fur fabric scraps and white nylon wadding, plus tiny pompon tails and black paper burrows.

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Collage using contrasting textured art materials found in a bargain store. Squirrels were torn freehand (no pencil lines!). Forgot to bring glue to Perth, so I will have to reassemble it when I get home.

Week 9: Texture II

Return of the 52-Week Illustration Challenge, Week 7

Week 7: Farm

Sheeps in the field. Fingerprint art on corrugated cardboard with acrylic paint, crayon, Signo pigment ink and various Sharpie markers.

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Fringed paper chickens with black "Stained" Sharpie and white pigment Signo details, collaged to a black background.

Week 7: Farm II

Return of the 52-Week Illustration Challenge, Week 6

Week 6: Magic

Folded and freehand-cut collage pieces in watercolour paper and black card, with watercolour shading. Elements are glued to a backing of yellow card, layered with red and yellow sheets of glitter mesh fabric. One bird is sandwiched between the layers of mesh.

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Watercolour cartoon on damp watercolour paper with a black Stained Sharpie outline.

Week 6: Magic II

DIY Easter, BYO Allen key

Have a great Easter!

Serving the Easter Bunny

What's an Easter Bunny buy at an electrical store? Energiser batteries?

The grass is greener...

An old photo, but I just saw this bunny again. On my front lawn. Someone had just mown his favourite clover patch across the road - and I guess he was hoping that the grass really was greener on the other side.

He's rather purplish in this photo, but less bizarrely coloured in real life.

Slow and steady still does it...

Today, a hare once again raced a tortoise for a medal and a gold trophy - this time in the intense Penrith heat. Tomorrow, my Kindergarten bloggers will create a jointly constructed retelling of the famous Aesop's fable.

He's looking over a four-leafed clover

A feral bunny in Penrith? This rabbit is spotted in my street every now and then. He doesn't seem to stray too far, and he was certainly having fun frolicking in the neighbours' cloverfield of a front yard this week!

Last week's photo roundup

Still life. 16 June 2009.


Jack vanishing under the bed, just before midnight.
In a few minutes, after "lights out", he'll be
sneaking under the doona. 17 June 2009.


Window display in Sydney's CBD, celebrating 60 years
of Onitsuka Tiger sneakers. 18 June 2009.


Miniature glitter lamp in bathroom. 19 June 2009.


Grass bunny in a bowl. 20 June 2009.