The Owl and the Pussycat

 

This is an image I created using limited colour.  There are two plus the outline.  I wanted to try and recreate the looser work I'd been making using paintbrushes but digitally.  The outline is hand drawn  but the colour is added in Procreate. 

Digital work makes it very easy to erase mistakes but they're often the lines that give images their charm.  So I did my very best not to hit the undo or delete button.  Does anyone else find it hard to just leave their artwork as it is and embrace the imperfections?

You can see more of my limited colour work on my website megmclaren.com

Read together

Read Together

A GIF I made of a recent illustration.

Now available as a greeting card.  Click here to go to the shop.

 

Owl crazy

Like everyone else it seems I am also going owl crazy.  This is a lady I've been working on in my sketch book today.  She'll no doubt become a lovely mass of flat colour but for now she is a wonderful mess of watercolour pencil.  

This is her conductor.  

He remains nameless and is no doubt going to be replaced.  Never fear for he is not bothered 

because it is that wonderful time just as lunch approaches and he is thinking mostly about soup.

And these ruffians and are a few of my previous owl orchestra.  Aren't they wonderfully flat?  

They urge to me to ensure you their music is not.

O is for...?

The cleverly titled O is for...? has also been printed.  B is for...?  is a work in progress.

Owl orchestra.