Coy boy

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My husband, Teddy, collects ball-jointed dolls and often changes their outfits and takes photos of them.

I noticed that one of the dolls remaining on a shelf one day had been left in an interesting position and decided to do a drawing of him.

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Christmas tree

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Here is an additional post for this week

This is my decoration of the Christmas tree this year.

and with its lights

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Christmas sprite

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Here is a Christmas Fairy to celebrate the season.

Have a Cool Yule.

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Christmas Wreath

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My parent's house has a long holly hedge down one side. Each year, my father used an old wreath frame to make a holly wreath for the front door.

In later years, however, he bought a commercial wreath and I inherited the frame.

Now, each year I make a wreath from the yew and holly in my garden.

Here is this year's wreath.

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quarterstaff

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Here is a new drawing of a young man with  a quarterstaff.

This was inspired by a drawing by Tom of Finland and the story of Robin Hood and Little John fighting on a narrow bridge over a stream.

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Arthurian

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Here is an extra post for this week

Thus is an ink painting I did many years ago.

It is based on the Arthurian legends and shows the final fight between Arthur and Mordred at the battle of Camlan, which ( some versions say) was fought in fog.

This is a very old picture, but I am still pleased with how the fur under Arthur's Roman cuirass came out. 

You can also see that the barbed spear has gone in a small gap between the plaque belt and the breastplate and punched out through the edge of the backplate.

I called the picture "Father and son"

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Regency Buck

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Here is a new drawing.

This piece was inspired by a drawing by Tom of Finland.

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Elflord

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Here is an extra post for this week.

This is a portrait of Lord Saal, one of the gilder elves from my comic, Elfsex,

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Hello Tiger

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Here is a new piece of computer art based on a drawing I posted earlier.

This has turned into a sexy tigerboy.

I am very please with how this picture came out.

You will note that I am also starting to use my new watermark signature.

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Fencer

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Here is an extra post for this week.

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Raven portrait

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I have been doing some more computer art .

Here is a portrait of my Elfsex character, Raven

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Horse

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Here is an extra post for this week.

After I left Art College I worked in an office for twenty years, doing various jobs for the same charitable organisation.

This work was often unchallenging, repetitive and (frankly) dull.

In one of my posts I found myself seeking any creative outlet .

In odd moments and breaks, I made this six and a half cm model of a rearing horse out of paperclips.

It's not a job I regret being made redundant from.

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Elf Knight

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Here is a drawing from my sketch books.

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For Honour

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Here is an extra post for this week

This is an ink painting I did some years ago.

The motto  Nemo Me Impune Lacessit is from the Order of the Thistle.

It means (roughly) "No one insults me with impunity."

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New drawing

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Here is a new drawing of a young man reclining in his underwear.

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Dragon and Butterfly

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Here is an acrylic fantasy painting I did some time ago.

I wrote a short story about a dragon and a butterfly many years ago , where the dragon finds, in the end, that he can't just destroy his opponent.

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Hose

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Here is a drawing of young man stripped to his hose.

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Woodland Elf Strip

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I have been doing further experiments with Photoshop.

I have posted about my comic Elfsex before.

This is my character Woodlore.

I have reworked the picture I drew before and, using the layers option available in Photoshop, have made pictures of him and in various stages of dress and, indeed, undressed. 

Here he is in his usual outfit.

Then I've added some leather gear.

Next, here he is in just the leather gear and , finally...

...here he is nude.

I have been working on different ways to do the flesh tones and am quite pleased with how it has turned out.

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Hussar

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Here is a drawing from my sketch book based on a picture by Tom of Finland.

I call this one "Finland Hussar"

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More work on oil painting

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I have done some more work on my current oil painting.

last time I posted it looked like this

After quite a lot of work, it now looks like this

The painting is very nearly finished. I now need to live with it for a bit to see if there are any little things that need tweaking. 

It has now entered the most difficult phase...

I have to decide when to leave it alone.

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squire

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Here is a drawing from my sketchbook of a cute young man in shirt and hose.

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Hero

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Here is an extra post for this week

I found this picture in one of my portfolios.

 

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Teddy's arms

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For many years my husband, Teddy, and I were members of the Far Isles Medieval Society.

This is a group that was (in the far mists of time) once part of the Society for Creative Anachronism.

Members may have two characters in the Far Isles based, often very loosely, on historical periods between 500 and 1603.

I served many years as King of Arms for the society and, hence vetted and created many achievements of arms.

One of Teddy's characters had - supposedly- trained a flock of killer sheep and had thus been granted arms as: 

 Tenne a sheep in wolf''s clothing proper.

This was a red-brown shield with a sheep with a wolfskin cloak standing ( as this was thought an appropriate pose for a sheep).

Teddy was never very happy with these arms, as he felt a killer sheep should be more warlike. 

His other character was a Renaissance fop and I designed appropriate arms;

Chequey vert and or a russet apple slipped with a bite taken from the sinister chief proper.

Teddy's favourite colours are green and yellow. Hence, he was happier with these arms.

In time the membership and flavour of the society changed and we decided to leave.

Teddy, however, had been elected king ( Head of Society) three times and was, much to his ( but nobody elses) surprise made a Life member. We were also told that this sort of extended to me too and I am now a sort of Associate Life Member-weird but apparently true.

 Anyway, when we decided to get married, I decided to draw up a new achievement for Teddy, combining his previous coats and rectifying previous design errors.

The blazon is: Tenne, a sheep in wolf's clothing rampant in chief a label dovetailed chequey vert and or charged with a russet apple slipped with a bite from the sinister chief proper

He is very happy with these new arms.

At some point I will draw up the two marriage achievments. 

As per the ruling of the Collage of Arms for same sex marrige coats,they will be impaled.

 Mine will have my arms  (  per fess gules and argent a demi lion defamed and the base of a dragon volant tail enflamed conjoined and countercharged) on the dexter and his on the sinister and his will have his arms on the dexter and mine on the sinister.

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Slaveboy

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I was tidying the studio the other day and came across a box of old sculptures.

Many have now been discarded, as I have made better ones since, or , indeed, better versions.

I have, however decided to keep this one, which I made in 2011.

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Cute Frenchie

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This is a drawing of a cute young Napoleonic officer from my sketch books.

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The Thinker

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As I have previously mentioned, I have been working on a new Fimo figure.

I have now completed it.

I like to set myself challenges. This figure is not only squatting down but is also resting on the ball of his feet. 

The figure is 9cm high.

I am calling it "The Thinker".

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Unicorn boy

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Here is an extra post for this week

I found this drawing in one of my sketch books. 

I think this is the first time I have done a drawing of a  human/creature hybrid.

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Tarty Elf

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I have been doing experiments with Fimo. 

I wanted to make a standing figure, but Fimo is too soft to maintain its structure through the half hour cooking process and its probable that  a wire structure would heat up and crack the clay

I speculated that it should be possible to make a standing Fimo figure without using a wire support if I made it in two pieces( front and back) and then clayed over and smoothed the joint.

I made the back of the figure and cooked it. I then made the front of the figure and joined them together and cooked it again.

 I then had to do quite a lot of carving and sanding and remodeling, as this process makes it more difficult to judge anatomy in the round.

The good thing about fimo, however is that it can be cooked and recooked over again.

This is the finished figure , which is about 18 cm high.

The boots have high heels . 

There is no wire structure and the figure is stable.

I think I can count the experiment a success.

As an additional feature the Fimo I used for the flesh of this figure is luminous, so he glows greenish with the lights off!

I am currently working on a figure crouching and up on the balls of its feet, which I am making in sections. It is going quite well so far.

Until next time

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