tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76847303573688189332024-02-19T03:25:34.289+01:00trickytrickyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16072815842080631705noreply@blogger.comBlogger102125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684730357368818933.post-23035316190760578272013-09-11T12:58:00.000+02:002013-09-11T13:02:13.652+02:00Wolfish lifestyle<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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trickyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16072815842080631705noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684730357368818933.post-73609041260216753062012-09-05T22:20:00.000+02:002015-09-23T14:28:10.880+02:00sketchbook that made me start drawing again<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Some time ago, <a href="https://twitter.com/kimikobashi" target="_blank"><b>Kimi</b>,</a> an amazingly talented lady started a project, and you can learn more about it <a href="http://kimikobashi.blogspot.com/p/portraitlandscape.html" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a>. I was sooo happy to participate in it... I couldn't wait for the travelling sketchbook to reach me... and finally, it did... and it was in my hands, and it was beautiful!<br />
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I haven't been drawing for a while... not as much as I wish... but I missed it SO much... </div>
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I always carry a notebook with me, and I am always on a lookout for new ones... so I thought.... maybe it would be nice to make some myself for a change... so I made 2 and then I kept making them... and... </div>
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And it was already late in the evening when I started, but I was having so much fun and when I thought maybe I could call it a day (a night) it was already time to get up... sigh... well, at least I have an excuse now for being sleepy all day :D ... and a proof for it:</div>
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It's winter... almost... and I love winter.</div>
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5 hours of sunlight per day (counting my "awake" time)</div>
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Each evening I'd want to blog about something, then I'd snap some photos, *they'd look terrible, and I'd give up, promising myself to do it all in the morning.</div>
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Then, in the morning I'd have something "serious" to do, and by the time I finish, all the daylight would hide away... so I would promise myself again, the same thing, and I'd draw or make make something new, and I'd want to blog about it. I'd snap photos... (start reading again at *)</div>
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Not a nice circle to be trapped in!</div>
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10min of "hard labour"</div>
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The results are <a href="http://trickytanya.blogspot.com/2011/11/seriouzness.html" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a> in my previous post.</div>
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It would have been great if I had one more lamp, but I think the photos turned out OK anyway.</div>
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and this is a scene from our little photo-shoot:</div>
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but I've also been stealing time to play... seriously, of course.</div>
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Maybe that's why this guy turned out to be such a...</div>
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A dear friend of mine gave him this name that's so... </div>
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Apparently, I've been introduced to these guys, but I can't remember their names.</div>
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Leslie's been trying to persuade Lennard to eat fruit.</div>
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But Lennard won't even hear of it.</div>
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Stubborn little penguin... that Leslie...</div>
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quit it... it just won't happen!</div>
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<a href="http://trickytanya.blogspot.com/2011/11/cute-in-stripes.html">Mattimore</a>'s happy now that he doesn't have to play alone on the playground. He's got Lennard and Leslie to play with him, and Godfry's going to join them tomorrow.</div>
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I had a bit of ...um ... time ... that I like to call "shy", but in fact, it's my phase where I absolutely hate every line I make, and I want to hide away and never ever try to draw again... but I can't really stop... and only now I realise, this time, most of my "shy drawings" are green... here are just a few of them...<br />
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<br /></div>trickyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16072815842080631705noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684730357368818933.post-68812877883213579052011-11-10T00:46:00.002+01:002012-11-10T22:46:21.700+01:00cute in stripes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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He is very happy because he got a new stripy coat, and he's parading it around...</div>
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But not even a week ago, he was just another lump of clay and sheet of aluminium who had never met before... but once they did meet, magic happened and this new creature came to life.<br />
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Mattimore is just the first of many.. some of them have already been shaped and sanded. They were in Mattimore's drying class on the shelf, and they'll join him on the playground very soon, I just need to find for them something to wear... it's getting cold outside, I can't let them go out like this.<br />
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trickyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16072815842080631705noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684730357368818933.post-17956858164652377852011-10-14T01:55:00.001+02:002011-10-14T01:55:51.553+02:00jugglometer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br /></div>trickyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16072815842080631705noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684730357368818933.post-26985258102925223712011-10-04T03:24:00.000+02:002011-10-04T12:44:57.574+02:00hibernating monsters<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I always have monsters hibernating in my head. Most of the time, they're quiet, but sometimes, when they wake up, they like to party... they party for days and days and won't let me sleep at all... for days... so after a while, I become an inhabitant of a weird place, where I'm half awake and half asleep constantly, and every time I blink, something completely unexpected appears before my eyes...<br />
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because I <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;">♥ ♥ ♥</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;"> </span>him so much</div>
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I am torturing him and not giving him anything to eat for <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">over <b>4!!!! hours</b></span>... because he had to take his antihelmintic paste, and last time he had it on a full tummy, he couldn't hold it down, so the vet said no food 3 hours before and 3 hours after.</div>
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He hates me right now... and to think that only this morning we were cosy and purring in a loving cuddle...</div>
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He had his normal morning, never anticipating my horribly wicked plan.</div>
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Only when he meowed for his breakfast #3 and got nothing, he realised something was going on.</div>
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I bought the best paint I could find, and painted the entire "enormous" wall all in one colour, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #8b835f; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>this greyish-brownish-not-too-light-but-natural beige</b></span>.<br />
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The idea was to have something neutral where to hang my lovely heavy vintage frames that I had painted white with lovely mating emulsion finish, <b><a href="http://trickytanya.blogspot.com/2011/02/for-me-with-love.html">something like this one here</a></b>, only a matching pair, and bigger (and yes, two more embroideries were evicted from their frame-homes, but they'll have new life as cushions). I looove love love white-brown combinations.<br />
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the wall was painted, and I let it dry over night, and the next day ...I hated it. It was so bad that it was making me angry. I stepped into the studio, saw it, and walked out.<br />
When I'm at any of my desks, the wall in question is behind my back, but I couldn't sit at my computer and work, the wall was bugging me that much.<br />
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First, I'm showing you the end result:</div>
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Unfortunately, the photos are not perfect.</div>
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I tried to fix the colours in Photoshop, </div>
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I've been using so many different materials lately, like colour pencils, graphite, ink with brushes or rapidographs, aquarelle, acrylic paint, and most of the time I was mixing them all in one drawing/painting.</div>
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I wanted to try to and do something a bit... heavier this time.</div>
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I don't know is it autumn, or maybe something not necessarily coming from outside me...</div>
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I just needed more... <b>emotional saturation </b>in what I do.</div>
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And I think I've found a good technique.</div>
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I like to use 500g cotton paper, but it's not perfect, because it usually has strong texture, and I like my paintings to look smooth, so I painted the paper with acrylic paint for background, and <b>rubber wax over it</b>. Then put it in the oven for 2 min, just to let the wax melt and distribute evenly across the surface, and fill all the little gaps.</div>
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Then, I put one very thin and watered down layer of <b>white gouache paint</b>, and when it dried up, I did it again. </div>
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I worked on 3 sheets at once. By the time I finish the first layer, the first paper I did was already dry, so I could start over.</div>
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Only then I did sketches. </div>
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That is a bit of a reverse process, but I wanted to <b>let the material guide me</b>.</div>
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Then I transferred the sketch onto the prepared surface.</div>
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It was easy to do with a pencil, lightly, because of the white pigment. It allows you to draw on it with soft graphite. I used <b>B9 pencil</b>.</div>
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As I drew, I made shallow cuts in the wax, and I like how it added the textured coutures to the painting.</div>
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All the rest was done with brushes and acrylic paints.</div>
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Here is the final painting:</div>
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and another one:</div>
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trickyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16072815842080631705noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684730357368818933.post-88279198307464126312011-09-18T02:59:00.000+02:002011-09-18T03:01:19.264+02:00a cat<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There are so many things I should be doing now</div>
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...and none of them is drawing cats...</div>
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trickyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16072815842080631705noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684730357368818933.post-9802750181418734022011-09-15T18:03:00.005+02:002011-09-16T02:58:51.897+02:00progressing +/- advancing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I've decided to try and have a bit more studious approach to drawing.<br />
I had a clear picture in my head of what I wanted it to look like, but instead of changing my mind when I start colouring, and then destroying the illustration, this time I did "test drive" sketches.<br />
Here are some of them:<br />
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After I met my characters and we had a nice chat over coffee and a bit of cake, I took my nice heavy paper, and put it all together, like a story... it's strange how drawing is like writing. Before I draw the story, I must draw the concept first... like an outline of a story, a plot.<br />
This is it, scanned, because it was very late at night, and my drawings hate flash lights.<br />
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I would usually draw my characters first, and I'd ruin it all once I start drawing everything around them... that's why I did it reverse this time. Strangely enough, I've drawn the background easily. There are some details missing here and there, but I'm not worried about that.<br />
Now that I've reached the final stage, I do hope not to mess it up... I'm letting you see the unfinished drawing, but I've cut out the bits I'm working on now... if they turn out well, they'll be a nice surprise, and if they turn out bad, off to the bin with them, but you haven't met them, so you won't miss them :) ... only I will<br />
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trickyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16072815842080631705noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684730357368818933.post-78730555651509703362011-09-13T17:53:00.001+02:002011-09-14T18:35:17.367+02:00un vrai papa<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I don't know if it ever happened to you, but it happens to me all the time, and it always ends in frustration:<br />
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I draw outlines of something, I put all my actors on the stage, then I start working on one detail, and I'm actually pleased with it, so I pass on to the next one... and it's baaaad... bad bad bad!...my hands draws like paws, nothing looks right, I hate every line I make... That's the moment where I usually just crumple the paper, throw it in the bin that's always within a handy reach, and always completely full.<br />
Last night I simply walked away... I couldn't look at it... But it was still there, waiting for me in the morning... it didn't disappear, it didn't change over night... but my level of tolerance and patience did.<br />
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fanfares and cheers fooooor:<br />
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Monsieur Vrai Papa, avec la moustache et les muscles d'un papa super!<br />
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What you have before you is my attempt to save this guy... I'm even quietly happy I didn't toss him with the rest of the gang from that sheet of paper...<br />
I'm sorry, Lady Weightlifter and Mr Bearded Clown... I promise to give your a solo act each... one day... maybe soon... learn to be patient, that's a good thing to be!<br />
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trickyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16072815842080631705noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684730357368818933.post-75996773038436661812011-09-09T06:27:00.001+02:002011-09-09T13:20:04.524+02:00caffeine feline<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I drew a lion...</div>
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I like lions... especially today</div>
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I don't know why...<br />
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