W.I.P. fishy-fishy flag book

Play­ing catch-up while away from home. First up, a book that is slow­ly tak­ing shape. It com­bines a for­mat (flag book), a mate­r­i­al (water­col­or wash­es) and a bit of dog­ger­el that wrig­gled into my head (and sketch­book) a cou­ple of years ago. … 

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New Techniques

I’ve got a shiny new copy of Pho­to­shop CS3 and have been exper­i­ment­ing. In Pho­to­shop Cre­ative Col­lec­tion v3 (no link avail­able) there’s a tech­nique that mim­ics pen and ink. Some­thing that is sim­i­lar to some water­col­or and ink work that … 

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One Finished and One Not-So-Much

Work on the bal­loon sell­er pic­ture is com­plete. You can see a full-size dig­i­tal ver­sion here. (no small ver­sion today — can’t get it to resize cor­rect­ly — maybe tomor­row) The image in the gallery is a dig­i­tal ver­sion that I made for Jim … 

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