Happy New Year of the....Sheep! (or Ram or Goat!)

Two very sheepish pieces I had an urge to finish last week. The first being quite realistic in its colour palatte, with the second being more experimental - possibly influenced just a smidge by old Chinese art. Either way, I had fun with both of them!

Dairy Cows Illustrations series for packaging

Recently I have been working on a series of very content-with-life dairy cattle! These illustrations were commissioned via a design agency for who are producing print advertisements and packaging for their animal-welfare company client. One of the requests was that I incorporate a touch of blue and purple into the colour scheme - it was really nice to be able to add in such lovely rich colours.

I wanted to really show off their kind characters and sweet, curious personalities.

For this next one, I worked on three seperate pieces before bringing them together digitally to create the composition of the final illustration.

To accompany them, I also created some extra buttercup meadow/grass patches. These are a lot of fun to do!

Here are some of the work-in-progress sketches from them:

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Eggs! (Chicken Eggs!)

I had a go at painting some eggs to accompany the chickens, I'm hoping to do some feathers as well. It was nice to paint food/produce again too. I was unsure about leaving them completely natural or adding in their date stamps...so I did a few of each.



I think I prefer the ones with the stamps 'cause they seem to have a bit more character, let me know which ones you like best! The way they are arranged give a different effect - so I played around with them:

Chickens! - The Rooster

I finished the rooster/cockerel yesterday...his colours are a lot brighter than I anticipated! My reds don't seem to scan well or edit well for some reason either, and I have no idea why!

I hope to paint some eggs and feathers too. Paired up, the hens and rooster don't look too bad together-

Chickens! - The Hens

 I've been working on some chicken designs lately - here are the hens. I have a rooster in the works too but its taking a while to get right! I think I'll be adding a bit more to these before I will be happy to call them finished, but here they are for now!