Digital colouring

 Spring 2025

After my eviction drawings I had an artist block, I felt absolutely no inspiration to draw, I spent all my time in the garden. Come spring I turned my computer on and opened photoshop. 
I decided I wanted a big coloured version of "Summer" on my bedroom wall, so I finished the black and white digital drawing and coloured it.

Both the drawings are available as A2 Giclee prints, you can find them Art Makers portfolio

HERE - https://www.artmakers.uk/portfolio/amanda/https://www.artmakers.uk/portfolio/amanda/

I enjoyed digital colouring so much that I decided to colour Ilfracombe too.

I wasn't 100% happy with the colour, so I tweaked it and then couldn't work out which one I liked the best, so both of them (plus the black and white) are available from my Art Makers portfolio.

Ilfracombe Harbour

 Ilfracombe is finished .. YAY!!

(Apart from a few waves around Verity, that Ive only just noticed, I'll draw them in before its goes to be printed.)

Anyway this drawing has taken me over a year, from the very first set of photographs to the drawing you see on screen.

I started drawing in December, using a 0.1 fine line pen, by the end of February when I had draw half the original pen drawing before I discovered it wouldn't fit on the page, so the original drawing ended up as a set of sketches.

Since April I have been working on it in photoshop, I've done an awful lot of cut and pasting, been back several times to take more photo's, studied google street view trying to fill in the gaps. The photo's below show my progress over the last 4 months.

 

         

The image will be a Giclee print, printed using pigment inks onto archival fine art paper.

The print is now ready for ordering, UK orders will be delivery straight from the printer, so will be unsigned. 

I am able to sign and deliver copies locally anywhere within 20 miles of Lynton, which includes Ilfracombe, Barnstaple, Braunton, South Molton etc etc If you live a little further please contact me as I will need to charge a small amount towards fuel costs.

The Image can be printed in three sizes and costs (UK shipping) included as follows..

A1+ (limited edition 500) £300

A2+ £130

A3+ £85

I am able to send internationally however shipping will be extra.

I accept PayPal or bank transfer payments.
If you have any questions or would like a copy of the print please leave a message in the comments box on the left hand side of this post.

Photo's on my Phone 26th June to 2nd July 2024

Last Tuesday my lovely friends held a surprise late birthday party.
Lots of birthday cake and much love & appreciation for the girls or maybe I should call them ladies💖

Then on Wednesday it was sports day, I didn't take many photos as I know some parents aren't happy about their children's photo's being shared, so I have been very careful and tried to cut all the people out. 

The cheer leading team.

From left to right - Step mum, Nanny, Queenie (grandma) and last but most importantly Mummy.

The first photo is of the start of one of Bert's running races and the last 2 of Maggie's sack race. 

There was much debate between the cheer leaders as whether Maggie had come 3rd or 4th. Mummy thought it was 5th, but I don't believe she was looking in the right direction.

It was very hot!

The rest of the week has consisted of drawing and dog walking, plus a little bit of playing Zelda when I can fit a few minutes in.

I've almost finished Woolcombe

And Ilfracombe

I finally managed to pop over and take the missing photo's, not only have I missed a building out completely, but the road curves round to the left. I've got a lot of cut and pasting to do to get the road in the right place. I suspect I might still need to take more photo's.

Ilfracombe & woolcombe wip's & next.

 

Ilfracombe is nearly finished, I've just got to finish the water and my problem area, still haven't got round to poping over to take a couple of photos, but we have had car issues.

I'd almost given up with Woolacombe.

I was going to leave it unfinished and just about to take it off the board, but I've had a flash of inspiration, if I frame it slightly wonky it will resolve the straightness issues. I probably don't make much sense, but if you look at the photo's you can see what I mean.

Wonky

Slightly less wonky

 This looks more wonky, but it's only because I've twisted it in photoshop rather than real life.

My next drawing on the board will be Holdstone Down, one of our favourite dog walks. I want to draw it as an A2, but I've got a A3 frame waiting to be filled. Phil said to do what I wanted so A2 it is, eventually I'll draw an A3 to fit the frame.

I was going to take out the dogs and Maggie in the distance, but maybe I'll leave them in...

Google has just told me that Holdstone Down is considered as one of 19 holy mountains by the Aetherius Society, which I'd never heard of. It seems to be a religion based on new age and UFO beliefs. Its given me an exciting new set of  possibilities for my drawing, maybe I could sneak a ufo somewhere into the grass.

Photo's on my Phone 26th of May - 15th June 2024

 I don't seem to have many photo's on my phone, maybe because we haven't been anywhere for a few weeks.

Siri has spent a lot of time with his girlfriend over the past few weeks, but she's away on holiday at the moment, so he's really sad. She'll be back next week, so hopefully he'll cheer up again.

I walked Tinks & Siri to the top of Hollerday Hill in the sunshine.

We had a barbecue with our neighbours, we are really blessed to be surrounded by such a lovely group of people.

We went to the allotment, which still isn't growing, after being too wet for too long, its now too dry, however the last 2 days its gone back to being really wet again and a small animal has eaten all my strawberries!

The super cars came back to Lynton last weekend to take part in the Lyn Valley Classic, if you like cars it's an amazing event in a stunning location. These were all in Lynton, but Lynmouth was full of them too.

P.S the Lamborghini is my new replacement for the Land Rover!

And finally after living together for 6 years Tinks let Ron lie next to her on the sofa. 

This is the only photo that he looks relaxed, all the others you can see the fear in his eyes, but he put himself there which was very brave of him.

Yesterday I wrote a blog post and drew a picture of my hangover on my new very interesting green paper. The colour is called Verona Green and as colour has always been my thing I googled it. Verona Green has a really interesting history, if you want to know more you can read about it here https://www.naturalpigments.com/artist-materials/green-earth-pigments

This is Woolacombe as it looks today, I haven't got much to do. I'm not happy with the fact it seems to be bending away on the right side, I'm not sure how to get it back to the right position. If it was a digital drawing I would have cut and pasted it in the right place by now.

Ilfracombe is also close to being finished. I still don't have photos of the bottom left side corner, but think I might manage to narrow it down to one missing building, fingers crossed google can find it for me as I don't trust the Land Rover to get me to Ilfracombe and back. There aren't any petrol stations in between here and there and I don't want to be stranded in the middle of a field with a leaky car.

Woolacombe Wip

 I love Woolacombe.
Its an amazing place at all times of the year,
In the winter when the sea is boiling and the wind is blowing, the only people on the beach are a few hardy dog walkers. 
And in the summer when it feels like the Mediterranean, the sea is turquoise, the sand is gold and the beach is covered in happy family's enjoying their holidays.

Started 15th of May 2024

Drawn on A2 paper with a 0.05 fine line pen

Coloured with Staedler fine line coloured pens.

The I decided I'd drawn one of the houses in the wrong place, so I turned the board and started again drawing from the other side. However  the second drawing ended up out of proportion, so I turned the board again and carried on with the first drawing.

Today (30th May 2024) I've added a new house in the place that the original should of been, but as you can see my new problem is the first drawing is seriously close to the second (discarded) drawing, I will need a mount to cover it up.

In other news the my website has finally gone, I feel more emotional than I thought I would, I've had a website for 25 years, its the end of an era or maybe its the start of a new beginning.

Ilfracombe update - 30th May 2024.

I'm happy with the progress, I still need to take more photo's of Broad street and it's not so easy to pop over without a car.