Blue jellies and a pumpkin....

This blue jellyfish was done from a photograph by TANAKA Juuyoh (田中十洋) in Mactan Cebu, Philippines .



This quick sketch was done for the Drawspace challenge this week. Our host is Ernest Friedman-hill.

Aunt Tizzy's lingerie????

No picture of my jellyfish wearing Aunt Tizzy's lingerie, because I forgot to check the copyright code until after I drew it. So this ATC will stay here in my collection. Lesson learned!
I thought since I don't have a new jellyfish to show today, that I would show this video on jellyfish. The one that I drew looked like the pink moon jellyfish at the end. The video is about 1 and a 1/4 minutes long, enjoy.

Aunt Tizzy's Jello Dish????

This one was photographed by Mikefats .
Does it look like a jello mold dish brought to baby showers and wedding showers by your favorite crazy Aunt?
Well this is number five of twelve done. My camera is making the black paper grey a bit, I'll have to see what I can do, as it changes the drawing a bit.

I am not a jellyfish, I am a fungus???

This funny jellyfish was photographed by 顔なし at the Osaka Aquarium.

Lemon yellow and polka dots....

Another jellyfish for the Under the Sea trade at Drawspace. This one was photographed by Deep onion maybe taken in Mar Jonio, Italy.

Under the Sea Trading Cards.....

For my trading cards (2.5x3.5") I decided to do Jellyfish on black paper. Starting with white as my base I find I can get my colours to glow like the real jelly fish. These are two of the twelve I need to do for the Drawspace trade.
For this project I am using photos from Flickr these people (the ones I am using) allow derivative work to be done, with credit being given to them for the original photo.
My orange jellyfish was photographed by Strollers in the aquarium in Osaka.


The green jellyfish were photographed by Eschipul in the Houston Aquarium.

I have a cool thing to share. My son was bugging me for an answer to something while I was trying to figure out the opposite colour to orange. I told him if he could give me the answer, he is in high school art, that he can do whatever he was bugging me about. Of course by the time I got this all said I had the answer. But kids being kids he had a better one. Stare at the colour orange and then stare at a white paper and you will have the exact opposite colour. Hm-m so I stared at my coloured pencil, and got nothing. Then I scribbled in a square of orange, stared at it then at the white paper. How cool, a blue square showed up, lighter than the blue I had already picked out.

The downward spiral of a little flower....

Everyday for the last week or so I have been doing a little more to my drawing. I was happy with my flower and I was okay with my vase. I liked the colour I was getting on my background. Then things started to fall apart, so I fixed this, then I fixed that. And each day it continued, maybe this will make it better, or this. Some days as you can tell I didn't have the heart to photograph the poor, poor flower.
Then I thought to myself, maybe I should have some of those thumbnail sketches that I hear everyone talk about. Of course it was to late to help this poor flower.
Now on the upside, my flower makes a really cool negative picture!


All kidding aside, I would have done better with some planning on paper. It would have shown me that I wanted a different placement on my page. I might have remembered that I like a picture that is not filled in to every corner, I like white space.
Well I am off to draw some Under the Sea trading cards for Drawspace.