HOPE

'HOPE'

Final Drawing for 2016

©31 Dec 2016 by Shiloh Moore

8x10" Extra Fine Sharpie Markers on Paper

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2016 has been a defining year for me.  It has been tough, challenging, but in the end creative and fulfilling.  The word that I feel as I go into 2017 is HOPE.

A friend gave me some coloured sharpie markers for Christmas - ooooh love!  So here is my first go to try them out.  I was looking at Typography (making art from words) and Zentangle techniques and came up with my own doodles of flowers, animals and nature.

It makes me think of a wise phrase a wonderful friend who is chronically ill said to me: 'Where there is life there is Hope'

If you look hard, you will find these signs of life:

- A 4 leaf clover

- Flowers

- Leaves

- Grass

- A grasshopper

- Ferns

- A chameleon

- A dandelion

- A daisy

- A dragonfly

- A rose

- A caterpillar

- A coccoon

- A butterfly

- A ladybug

- A birdie

- A bumblebee

May your life be filled with HOPE

 

Floral Arrangement

'Floral Arrangement'

© October 2016 by Shiloh Moore

A4 Watercolour and Pitt Pen on Paper

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Some family friends gave me a beautiful arrangement of flowers.  I enjoyed photographing then drawing it.

Floral Arrangement Photograph

© August 2016 by Shiloh Moore

Zentangle Part 1: Dove

"Zentangle Dove"

© 2015 By Shiloh Moore

31/5/15

I haven't done any new drawing or painting in almost a year.  I've had a crazy time with my health and most of the time have not been well enough to create, plus I have not been feeling particularly inspired, so I did not want to push it.

One of my awesome doctors recently gave me an 'important prescription' - a colouring in book for adults, to gently get me back in the zone, with no pressure, and to just have fun.  The next day, another friend recommended I google 'Zentangle Art' and get into awesome creative doodling.  I've never been much of a doodler - I have mind blanks and put too much pressure on myself to not make a mistake!  But I thought I'd give it a try.

So my first attempt I used the outline of my doves in 'Be Free' (ByShi Blogpost Feb 12 2012) which I used again in 'Dove Tree Mandala' (ByShi Blogpost Sept 23 2012).  

I was not well enough to sit for long to do this, so I lay on my side and drew in the way I illustrated in my post 'Living With ME and FM Series - Lying Down' (ByShi Blogpost Jan 18 2012).

This was my first attempt at Zentangle and I thoroughly enjoyed it.  Later that day I tried 'Zentangle Part 2: Dachshund', which I will upload soon, so stay tuned!!!

Love Yourself

'Love Yourself'

A4 Pen and Watercolour on Paper with Computer Vignette

copyright 2012 by Shiloh Moore

"Love Yourself" 

5/9/12 copyright by Shiloh Moore

Take time out

Smell the flowers

Appreciate the beauty.

Look within

To the place it touches

And Love Yourself

'Love Yourself'

original line drawing

copyright 2012 Shiloh Moore

'Love Yourself'

line drawing with computer editing

copyright 2012 Shiloh Moore

Glasshouse Mountains

'Glasshouse Mountains'

copyright 5/6/12 by Shiloh Moore

Watercolour on Paper

Drawn from this photo of the Glasshouse Mountains on the Sunshine Coast Hinterland, Queensland, Australia, taken last December

'Circle of Life'

'Circle of Life' A4 Watercolour on paper, (c) 2012 by Shiloh Moore

This image has been bubbling in my mind for months. It has been begging to be created. I drew it with Pitt Pen while lying down, then worked on it with watercolours sitting up for short spurts, then resting in between. I imagined a curvaceous tree at the heart of a circle of life, home to a wise owl, a bird, a lizard, a spider with its web. Surrounded on the ground by flowers, a deer, butterflies and a dragonfly in the air, all being enjoyed by a little girl with pigtails on a swing. Innocence, life, beauty, joy, nature. Happiness.

If you like the Little Girl in 'Circle of Life' you may also like:

'Little Girl' 

'Happy Birthday Balloon Girl' and

'Enjoy The Puddles'