(Below: the final water colour painting, my pencil sketch and my son's original drawing.) Here we go again! The subject for the second instalment of the "stealing my son's ideas" project is (obviously) penguins! I liked the simplicity of his original sketch but felt it necessary to add a … [Read more...]

"The Fox" - digital image created using Procreate on iPad This is a digital sketch of the next painting in the "My Son's Drawings" project (that began with the Mammoth earlier this month). When I was plotting it out in pencil I felt that there was a need to per-visualize some of the colours to … [Read more...]

"Collecting the Pieces" ~ Water colour and ink with digital enhancement (stars) Here's another test painting from "Hervig Muldoon Hated the Moon". This image follows not too long after the image I posted of these two a few weeks ago. I'd say they've got their work cut out for them! … [Read more...]

When I started my Artifischercolour account I had the luxury of choosing from art that I'd already created. Obviously that couldn't go on forever. New work was required but I'd been playing with my little boy and spaceman characters for so long that I wasn't sure what else to draw. Where would … [Read more...]

Continuing my mission to get my art out in front of the masses I've create a new punningly named instagram account called Artifischercolour. There, I've been posting images from my children's books in progress and some art from my past that you can currently find on this website. Looking at … [Read more...]

"Let's Do This!" ~ Water colour painting with digital enhancement. Since my last update a year and a half ago (in which I claimed I'd be updating this site more often... sorry!) I've been working on trying to create my own children's book. I got advice from someone who works in publishing that … [Read more...]