illustration

Digital Painting Picture Book of Goldilocks and the Three Bears

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I’ve moved my art practice into the digital realm and embraced digital painting. It is so much easier to find half an hour in the evenings to paint this way. I just don’t have the time or space to use real paints at the moment, and Procreate with a pen and tablet is a decent equivalent.

So, after about six months of scratching away at this project every evening, after work and my daughter’s bedtime routine, I have completed my first picture book of digital paintings! It is based on the public domain story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and is published on Amazon here: https://amzn.eu/d/6bcVuF2

Here are a few sample pages. I hope you like them… let me know in the comments 🙂

Allotment Pattern

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Those drawings I did a few weeks back from sketches on the allotment: just made them into a pattern…

Allotment repeat pattern

I like the community spirit, the hub of creative activity and nurturing. I’d like to see it on a tea towel.

allotment
steaming wheel barrows, dangling carrots, observing the sprouts, sheds galore. The delights of the allotment.

Parsley and Chives

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Parsley Blue
Blue wash, for a china pattern

Parsley pattern

Parsley purple and layered

These illustrations started out as a series of drawings of herbs, this and the bay leaf have made it into pattern form (I used the bay in the canary pattern).  I think this one would make a nice china pattern. I might work on the others at some point, there was one of thyme I rather liked.