Colourful

Feather of Peace 1

Unfortunately, the other 2 suffered failures (check out oi_you_blondie on Instagram for confirmation :’D)

Personally, I’m still rather disappointed with this. The smaller birds, in my opinion, are awful (and I don’t think I’m being overly critical of myself here). I knew I would struggle with the scale of 3″x 5″ and I did let my client know this – however, she loves it! And as the saying goes: the customer always comes first.

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If anyone would like to request a painting – if for purchase or just to challenge me 😉 – please email me on samanthaburnettartist@hotmail.com

Mini ‘Peace Feathers’

Working on some commissions for a miniature ‘Birds of a Feather’

The brief consists of being the painting being 3″x 5″, to have doves flying out and the have the erupt from the middle of the feather rather than the top.

So far it has been very difficult to work on such a tiny scale – I’m losing a lot of the details and blending tones.

Birds next – watch this space 😉

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Plagiarism

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It appears that I have been a victim of plagiarism…

This website is using my painting on t-shirts.

I’m flattered, I really am. Firstly that someone think my painting is good enough to print on a t-shirt and secondly that someone recognised my work and let me know! 🙂

But I was not asked for permission. The website says the image is theirs. And they’re making $35 a t-shirt on this. The original painting is still in my bloody display folder at home. So I’m annoyed.

If anyone has any advice or information that could help me sort this out, I would really appreciate it.

Feather Drawing

I’m still trying to finish my ‘Fly Away’ Collection and to come up with some more ideas and I’m thinking of create this one into a watercolour.

Any colour recommendations? 🙂

This can also contribute to my twitter for next months #SketchJanuary. I’ve been massively slack following and contributing to the twitter art cult over recent months…

Bunny 2

Ive added in some details and added a green background… think I’ve ruined it but oh well – you live and you learn. 🙂

I never usual bother with the background and tend to prefer naked white paper. To me it looks cleaner and more controlled despite the fact my painting is messy and spontaneous.

To add more ‘Control’ I might try painting a circle around it instead. Hopefully I can create a nice crisp line…

What are your thoughts?

Finished Watercolour Birds of a Feather

All finished! I didn’t add drips to this one. Maybe if the scale had been bigger (this is only 16×12 inches) I would have added them. It’s all framed a looking pretty now but what do you guys think? 🙂

Where do you think I should go from here?