thank you birdies

'thank you birdies'

© 20-27 April 2016 by Shiloh Moore

5"x5" Pitt Pen and Watercolour on Paper

This is the second 'Thank You' card I finished on the 27th April.  I love simplified birdies and used rainbow colours to bring them alive.  Note the green one is resting and doing its own thing, backwards to all the other brightly alert birdies.  No prizes for guessing which birdie I identify with!

I include the green resting birdie, who is cared for by all the other birds who let her join in, and note the rainbow wouldn't be complete without her.  It's a thank you card for all who look after me and let me join in, and for all those other green birdies out there, you are an important part of the rainbow!

Yin Yang Love Cats

'Yin Yang Love Cats'

2-3/7/16

© 2016 By Shiloh Moore

5"x 5" Pitt Pen on Paper

 

 On Facebook I saw this awesome photo of two cats, one black, one white, hugging and tails forming a love heart:

Note:  I don't have credit for this photo, I put it through 

Google Image Search and it was on hundreds

of sites, none of which were credited.

Sorry to the owner of this photo. Great shot!

 

 I was in love, and simplified it into my black and white version using black Pitt Pen.  I love promoting love and equality through cute kitties!

 

SpiralDragonfly

 'SpiralDragonfly'

© 23-27th March 2016 by Shiloh Moore

16"x20" Metallic Acrylic, Nail Polish and Posca Pen on Canvas

One of my very best friends was recently married.  It's always hard when I can't physically attend such special events, rituals and occasions.  But I still wanted to mark it with a gift.

I have had the background painted for 3 years now, (though I forgot to take a photo!  Too late now!!!)  Then a year ago when they became engaged I knew exactly what I wanted to paint.  My friend's partner is an entomologist and my friend loves spirals.  I love dragonflies, simplified drawings, and spirals, so I could see exactly what I wanted to paint.  I was so extremely, critically ill at the time, and it seemed like it may be an eternity until I may be able to do a large picture like this - I can usually only handle small pictures, and for a long time I was not even able to do those.  But this Easter, (appropriately a time of new life,) just a couple days after the wedding, I was able to do it!  It turned out exactly as I imagined, though there were the usual problem solving issues to bring it into fruition.

Today they visited and I presented it to them.  We had a wonderful time together xx  I hope they treasure it as I treasure them. 

'Portrait of a Model'

'Portrait of a Model' A7 Pitt Pen on Paper (c)2012 by Shiloh Moore

I was looking at faces of models in magazines and I came across one I was really drawn to, in 'Modern Hair and Beauty'. This was the model's 'before' shot on p22, photography by Ian Golding.

I drew a simplified drawing of a girl's face from her features.

Then I played with the image with colours and textures: