Illustration Friday - Clutter

A clutter of birds visit my house every morning. They make quite a ruckus some days. It is very entertaining. I swear they sound like they are laughing, sharing adventures and gossiping over their sunflower seed breakfast.

This was created using pen and tablet. I am really loving it. I have a question to any one who using one, which kind did you get? I have a small Graphire currently and thinking of an upgrade, I need a larger active area, I think.

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Check out the Maple Granola recipe. It's delicious! Tweet Follow @kellymedina

Healthy Rat

Another doodle that came to life all thanks to the pen and tablet. I'm really loving the tablet more and more. I still fumble a bit, but I can see why so many people use them and love it. Tweet Follow @kellymedina

Strawberries Inspire

With the summer coming to an end I am starting to get sad about all the local Farmer's Market and stands closing in October. This was my first year to really get to know where and what I could buy locally. I picked up these strawberries yesterday and they are so sweet, in both the adorable tiny size and taste. While I was playing around with the image, I sampled some colors and fell in love with the red and green I got. I believe I have just found some color inspiration for the holiday cards I need to start cracking on.

Also, I am setting up a good photo "area" to achieve better lighting in my photos. I wrapped up several pieces of cardboard in white butcher paper to provide back + side lighting which really seems to help. I think it will be pretty helpful as the days start getting darker. Tweet Follow @kellymedina

Girl in Red Shoes

I finally brought this character to life, it has been in my sketch book for a while. Tweet Follow @kellymedina

Animals for Card

I was thinking this would work best as a blank card design. I might end up adding some words. Tweet Follow @kellymedina

Pen illustrating

Wacom Pen: Left is Illustrator only. Right is Illustrator and adding some Photoshop color/texture.

I'm very encouraged by comments that people love their Wacom pens so much. Thanks! Tweet Follow @kellymedina

The Cuddlers

Aren't they just adorable!? It's taken a while for Ollie to wear down Kivan to be cool with this sort of thing. But seems he is winning her over more and more. Tweet Follow @kellymedina

Ballooning

I made these simple balloons for an illustration and started playing with colors and a card design. I ended up with this flat card and I really like it. Also, I am trying to let myself do more simple illustrations on more of my cards. So here ya have it.

I need to get cracking on more cards, I've totally been slacking. I really wish I didn't have to sleep, I could get sooo much done! Tweet Follow @kellymedina

Stepping into September

It was another great weekend. The extra day off was a great bonus. I did have work project that I worked on over the weekend, but I was still able to get some nice outside time. The weather has been absolutely perfect here. Saturday we went for a walk...

This early turning tree stopped me in my tracks. So beautiful with the blue sky and clouds behind it.

As we continued our walk, we came across this busy little bird. He kept fluttering in an out of the branches and teasing me while I tried to catch a photo. Finally he landed and posed for me with his triumphant claim of a seed from the branches. I love his head markings.

I love taking macro shots of tree trunks. This is two trees, but it almost looks like one trunk.

I rushed up to see this pretty little red poppy (I think that's what it is) and went crazy over the dead stems with their seed pods and hairy stems. I'm going to go back for a few more to put in a vase.
A couple weekends we went around our neighborhood and picked blackberries for jam, which turned out fantastic and is so good on Whole Grain Pancakes. This weekend the blackberries were really ripe all over the place, so we got to snack on them while we walked.

On our way we stopped by a wild growing mint plant and spotted a baby deer, who hid away right as I was done fumbling with my camera to take a shot. Figures! But you can see the little rump as it walked away.

Good stuff, I hope everyone else enjoyed their long weekend. Tweet Follow @kellymedina