Wednesday Art Feature: Jill Colbert

I first came across Jill Colbert's art on her Deviantart page. I was instantly mesmerised by her imaginative, colourful, almost hypnotic work. Not only are her finished pieces amazing, but she always shares the most amazing sketchbook work too.

Jill also has an etsy shop, where you can buy her work for very decent prices! Even the originals are really afforable.

Grape Heels

I don't tend to do realistic looking things anymore, although I do get a lot of requests for more strawberry shoes. This customer wanted some more realistic looking grapes on black heels. I kind of used artistic licence and added a few extra bold lines and highlights.

Although this was way out of my comfort zone and completely not my usual style, I really enjoyed doing them and felt so rewarded when I finished them and liked the outcome. I'm going to have to keep pushing out of my comfort zone and doing more orders like this! I DO NOT need to paint happy faces on everything I do!

Unfortunately the pictures I got of these weren't too good, it was the gloomiest day ever when I photographed these and my camera dosn't like gloomy.

Pug Painting!

This weekend has been a weekend of weddings and engagements! On Saturday, me and Ash attended the wedding of some of our friends. It was a beautiful day, the bride looked stunning and the speeches were brilliant. I had lots of fun dancing to cheesy music!
The couple who got married have a little pug dog, who they adore, they even had a pug bride and groom (made by the groom) on top of their wedding cake! So as part of their wedding present I painted them a little portrait of their dog Podge.
And on Sunday we went to an engagement party for some more friends! It seems like everyone is getting married and engaged at the moment!

Here's some pictures of the painting:

I will post some pictures of the pug cake toppers when I find some!