Copyright CAREN TAYLOR 2016 ”Random Emergings…of Blue” © From my New Series of Cubism Style Artwork

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Copyright CAREN TAYLOR 2016 ”Random Emergings…of Blue”

For the past few days I have immersed myself back into artistic mode, key ingredients were;…One blue Pencil Crayon, One 20 x 16 inches sheet of Textured Watercolour Paper, pencil sharpener and a good rummage around my mind LOL Enjoy !!

The final result is the first in a new series I have planned, of new and exciting Cubism Style Abstract Doodle Art 😉

HETTIE

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” Aw….BUT Please….” My Weimarana Peppy’s sister..Hettie! A very quick pencil sketch of a sulking moment …..doesn’t it make your heart strings twang?! She was so pretty, here as a pup, as, I’m sure she still is today!

A lovely Weimaramer moment captured in pencil art!

A quick pencil sketch done on rough watercolour paper and mounted on sale in my Etsy shop

 

MORE ”Wallis Russell and Lamb” pencil sketches

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In the time I’ve been away from WP, I couldn’t resist to add to the little series of pencil sketches depicting ”Wallis Russell and Lamb” – a beautifully knitted pair, gifted to me from the the very generous Mrs P from craftodessey! They have been so much fun to do 🙂

Taking the time to try an capture Mrs P’s wonderful knitted stitches…well as best I could as an artist and not a knitter… below are a couple more of my pencil artworks 🙂

The sketches have been done on rough textured watercolour paper and are all mounted and sitting on my beloved desk easel…made by my Dearest – a piece of equipment most dear and valued for many reasons!

A very exciting commission happened recently, due to my pencil and ink art – I was asked to create a fictional village scene to be used for the logo for an on-line newspaper……more about that in the future, I hope, with the permission of the client/purchaser!! 😉

 

‘Wallis and Lamb’ Original Pencil Artwork

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‘Wallis Russell and Lamb Cuddle’
Copyright Caren Taylor 2015 All Rights Reserved – Now available on my Esty shop 🙂

After sending Mrs.P a couple of little pencil sketches of her beautiful hand crafted knitted bunny, Wallis Russell and Lamb, Roma was kind enough to urge me to put some more pictures upon my Etsy site. Roma has the brilliant little store over on Etsy – see below for the fabulous little creations she makes…
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CottageOnTheGreen If you haven’t seen Mrs. P’s Blog here on WordPress, I definitely urge you to have a look……
https://craftodyssey.wordpress.com/2015/09/29/the-story-behind-wallis-russell/
…Brilliant, funny and Hand made Crafts too :-)!!

TWO New ‘Wallis and Lamb’ sketches now over on https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/carenscanvasandcraft With thanks to Mrs. P for urging me to put them in my store ❤

”Wallis and Lamb Chatting” Copyright Caren Taylor 2015 All Rights Reserved

‘Penguins at the Pole’ An Original imaginary Polar Landscape Pencil Drawing

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Mounted and ready for shipping from my Etsy store Cute, Quirky, Original Artworks
Copyright Caren Taylor 2015 All Rights Reserved

Sometimes I do wonder what goes on in my head…???…well here is one of those moments :-D… A few hours of pencil pushing to produce a Polar Penguin picture…Isn’t imagination fun??!! 😀

Rustic Bunnies – A Pencil Portrait of two of my fabric creations

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‘Rustic bunnies’
(Copyright Caren Taylor 2015 – All rights reserved)                 A little pencil sketch of my hand-crafted fabric bunny creations 🙂
To view their own post from a little while ago, see the link below;
https://carentaylor.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/its-bunny-time-rustic-bunnies-handmade-original-and-unique-decorative-soft-animals/

A cute couple captured on cotton canvas! 🙂

Unique Quirky and Original Artwork and Crafts now available in my Etsy Store

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/carenscanvasandcraft

MOUNTED AND READY FOR SHIPPING 😀
‘Rustic bunnies’
(Copyright Caren Taylor 2015 – All rights reserved)

‘Lenny the Leprechaun’ A Pencil Portrait of my ‘Doorstop Dumpy’ Creation.

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”Lenny the Leprechaun”
Copyright Caren Taylor 2015
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ONE.. of today’s little pencil sketches drawn from my very own Doorstop Dumpy created from my own patterns and ideas….for a glimpse of the cute little green subject – take a look at the link below, you may not have wandered across him on my site before?!

After grabbing my pencils for a little gift swap last week, I am overwhelmed how much I am enjoying the simplest of things once more, just drawing! Today I found myself totally absorbed in three little sketches, not to mention a slowly growing mound of graphite dust and sharpenings LOL 😀 Meet Lenny the Leprechaun, the first of three to be unveiled

Lenny the Leprechaun
Doorstop Dumpy’ – Handmade and Designed Character Doorstop
https://carentaylor.wordpress.com/2013/01/02/handmade-and-designed-doorstop-dumpy/
He being one of the very first posts I did after joining WP

‘LENNY THE LEPRECHAUN’
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*ALL RIGHTS RESERVED*
Here he is mounted, a totally unique little sketch, drawn from my own handmade creation, a ‘Doorstop Dumpy’ all ready for shipping, now in my Etsy shop!! A Cute quirky mounted (12 x 10 inches) ORIGINAL pencil drawing 

Pencil and paper moments

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I started Large…A  16 x20 inch mounted pencil portrait…….to give extra detail! Sometimes, as an artist…it’s just nice to touch base with the simpler things in life, like a piece of paper and a pencil! 🙂 Though, the paper is of the exquisite kind – 100% cotton, rough grade 140lbs/300g/sq m which I thinks added a lot of texture to the finished pieces!
Recently, I did a little gift swap with another WP blogger, MRS. P,  From the wonderful craftodessey!
Part of it was for a little requested pencil sketch of my adorable heritage bunny, which Mrs P had insisted I must have (who was I to pass up such an opportunity ???)……….. when it arrived – with a surprise unexpected little companion, knitted Lamb! My little bunny was given to me with a lovely letter telling me about her history. She was sent to be my new apprentice from the Workhouse. If you are new to all of what is going on here?? then a couple of links might help;
https://carentaylor.wordpress.com/2015/09/25/im-in-love-3-3-3-how-lucky-am-i-d/
https://craftodyssey.wordpress.com/2015/09/29/the-story-behind-wallis-russell/

The two little sketches I did for Mrs. P of her lovingly handmade and gifted (to me) knitted bunny, Wallis Russell and Lamb. Which The RM Postie delivered just yesterday as her surprise 🙂

Carried away by the moment – I seem unable to stop at the one I first thought I would do…..After all it is always nice to get an extra surprise!! 😀

….and so the sketches continue 😉
Watch this space for more tiny and large Wallis and Lamb portraits!

Pencil Drawings – ‘Selly Manor, Bournville’

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‘Selly Manor – Bournville’

This drawing was done from a photograph I took on a trip to Cadbury World, a chocolate factory near Birmingham. We literally walked around the corner from the Cadbury car park and fell upon the quaintest little village setting. Above, Selly Manor, is one of Birmingham’s oldest buildings dating back originally to around 1300.  Around 1907 it was dismantled, as apparently it was in a bad state of repair, and relocated to its present location in Bournville, as a restoration project by George Cadbury. It now stands as a museum and tourist attraction in the village setting. A beautiful Tudor building!

Pencil Drawings – Chipping Campden, Cotswolds – Pencil Drawing

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‘Chipping Campden, Cotswolds’

This little village street scene of Chipping Campden in the Cotswolds can also be seen in my Pen and Ink section. It was done from a photograph taken whilst on a family holiday.  I do like to recreate some of my artwork in different mediums. Whilst, I think, the pencil drawing gives a softer, more romanticised feel to the scene, the pen and ink illustration gives a very crisp no fuss kind of picture. It amazes me how two scenes exactly the same appear so different even when drawn by the same person. It is almost as if the ink illustration conveys matter of factly “I am, what I am” whereas the pencil drawing has more character and depth somehow, even though they are similarly shaded.

(I have included the Pen and Ink drawing below so a comparison of style can be seen together)

Chipping Campden, Cotswolds