The process I am using

Here is an example of the process I am using to do my art work.
It starts out as a pencil drawing, usually on an sketchpad. I transfer that to an A3 sheet using measured squares as a guide.

After that I fill in with colours. Sometimes I use watercolours but in this case I have used acrylics. I also finish the painting by drawing in the original pencil sketch in black lines:

If you look closely you will see it has changed a bit - that's all part of the process!

After getting the colours sorted in my head I then turn the painting into a vector design drawing. I like the finish and the colours I can get with the computerised colour process.

Bamboo Forest

Recently I spent some time with Marion Davidson, my art teacher from the UAE, when she visited China to reminisce and catch up with friends from when she taught here a few years ago. We visited Huangshan (Yellow Mountain) and stayed a few days in Hangzhou. Whilst I did not see any pandas in the wild I imagined that there could have been some in the bamboo forests on Huangshan. This picture will be digitised with my new Fireworks8 macromedia program. I am just learning how to use it! My sister Helen has sent me a graphics tablet and a ssoon as I receive it I will be "down to business". I wonder how he will look in vectors with some nice bright colours - watch this space!

Also, I completed this painting the day my nephew Evan and his girlfriend Sarah had my sisters grandchild - Sally. So the painting is for Sally and will be framed and in the mail in a week or two.

I made some changes when we were doing thedigitisation and this is what it came out like: