Mijn franse kalebas heeft sinds dit weekend een heel ander uiterlijk, stond hij al sinds vorig jaar gewoon kalebas te zijn nu gaat hij voortaan verder als Jaap.

As of last weekend my french courd has totally different looks. Formally known just as courd he now listens to the name Jaap.

Vanmiddag maar weer eens fijn aan het vilten geslagen en dit keer een kussenhoes gemaakt. Naast de gebruikelijke wol een wolkje zijde,een vleugje vlas en een toefje jute gebruikt.

Resultaat is zeer naar het zin al moeten mijn armen nu wel even bijkomen.

Ik geef een Photoshopcursus op de Volksuniversiteit. De laatste les ging over het maken van eigen patronen en penselen, het downloaden van andermans penselen en het gebruik daarvan. Deze illustratie is een voorbeeld hiervoor.

In this weeks class I was planning to give instructions on how to design your own brushes and patterns for Photoshop and how to use the ones you made and downloaded to create your own art. This is one of my examples

The Ode to the muse brushes are from Annika von Holt and are availabel here: www.annikavonholdt.com/
The sketching and watercoloring brush are from Zhu zhu. They are available here together with a wonderful tutorial:
forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=259965

I'm smitten with Photoshop...

Last night I started needlefelting while watching TV. Halfway the night I was planning to trash it because I thought it was going nowhere. But I went on a little further and right before I was planning on going to bed I saw lines appearing... ofcourse I went to bed way too late. When I finally did got to bed it was far from finished and looked more like a boy.

And today, since I don't "work" on wednesday and there also weren't any courses to give as well, I allowed myself to keep on needlefelting and somewhere in the middle he became a she. Right now the head is finished completely, she's got an other hairstyle and what I used to look as hair in these pictures, is turned into a hat. Unfortunately no photo's from that stage yet because it already was to dark when I finished it.

Now my main concern is what to do next. Am I going to needlefelt the total body or just the hands and feet and make the rest out of ready-to-use felt instead... haven't figured it out just yet.

This weeks theme of Illustration Friday.

Three years back I also made this:

Wich actually is an animation so to see the illustration please click here

Beautiful paintings by Melissa Moss