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Posted by Azra Momin on Thursday, December 24, 2015

The cat lady...or a lady cat?

Sample illustration...

that took a life of its own.

I couldn't resist adding the black-and-white rug :)

This drawing was entirely digital.

Anatomy of Bliss - three ways

Painting in Photoshop. You know why it's so cool?

In a few small clicks...

you have a new mood.

This was done pretty intuitively, and in one go.

I didn't draw it out, or plan it to go any which way.

The part I like best about painting

(either with 'real' paints, or digitally)

is that the work takes on its own life and direction.

After that, it's only a matter of facilitating it,

and letting it manifest itself.

I could have gone on painting it,

but I stopped, and just changed the backgrounds.

In the end, I don't have a favorite - do you?

Something In The Wind

The Sum Of all Days...

After a long time, some digital work

I should really work on my blog

- there's so much I need to do to make it better -

and I definitely need to work on my shop and

PUT SOME WORK IN IT ALREADY!!!

But, when I sat down at the computer I just ended up playing instead.

Again.

In its first life, this picture was an out-of-focus headshot of a hydrangea bloom.

Like so:

A little tweaking later, it metamorphosed into this:

And now I'm thinking:

I wonder if I can translate this into fabric?

WHOOSH!!

Something weird's happened!  I'm in Houston since the 24th of October, and I made a whole bunch of posts that I scheduled for publishing every couple of days that I was here.  That way my blog would be updated even if I didn't log on, which is exactly the case, by the way - I'm hardly ever going online.  For the first time in several years all my family is together, ecxept for DaddyBoy, unfortunately.  You can probably imagine what it's like, especially with three little kids running around all the time.

So anyway, I thought I had it all covered.  Until just now. 

I log in and find all those posts still sitting in my folder as drafts. 

Arrrghh.

I had never mentioned my Houston trip before because it was a surprise for my parents and I thought putting it on the blog was a big risk.  They were surprised all right, but so was I when I just discovered all those posts lseeping in my folder.

More arrrrggghh.

So if at all you were wondering why I suddenly disappeared, now you know!

A giant, candy fountain...

...or something like it!

When the BabyBug was to be born, I seriously considered a water birth.  I can't recall now why I didn't go through with it, and just opted for a regular home delivery, but a water birth would have been cool!  Hmm...now I'm being transported back in time when as a kid I read Charles Kingsley's Water Babies again and again with undying fascination.  It wasn't even my book!  Gotta get a copy for myself now!

So, anyway, a few minutes ago DaddyBoy had the Bugsie on his lap, and he was telling her about how he would be taking her swimming soon, and I was sitting at my computer right beside them, and well, I got thinking about water.

And this happened!  I call it Water - Three Ways.   Pools, puddles, streams, raindrops and rivulets - it has them all!

Will take a test print and see if it's Etsy-worthy, but on screen it looks amazingly vibrant!