Good evening to ya. Hope your day has been ok, and if it hasn’t I am thinking of you. I am finished with these cuties ‘Duck Chick Friends’ #whatsiblingsdo #3, for digital process link here:
Duck Chick Friends
#3 What siblings do
Noontime greetings. Here is my next digital painting for my #whatsiblingsdo series. 🙂 
Happy New Year – 2015
Happy new year from me for 2015. Hope you had an amazing time crossing over to a new year, and here’s to having a prosperous 2015.
The word stirring around in my head so far for the year is storytelling. Therefore I will be narrating, a lot. I will be elaborating on my pieces of art. New and some old. Disscusing my thoughts at the time of their creation and other themes I noticed. Months later upon looking back.
I am grateful for the year just passed, 2014. Many didn’t have a great year. A lot of heartbreaking stuff kicked of around the world. Trying to hold on to the aspect of love joy and hope is not easy for lots of people. But I hope to tell stories and reflections that add a little positive distraction to the viewer of my little cuties and their unique adventures. Spk soon. 🙂
Scarecrow Murders Trilogy: Origins – Beatrice Ajayi
I am so excited to announce my new Ebook crime fiction book Origins: The Scarecrow Murders Trilogy. It’s the first book of three and you can find it following this link to amazon.com:
Book I: Origins
I have always loved writing and Amazon Kindle publishing has made it possible. Let me know what you think. It’s priced affordable, I want everyone to have access to my storytelling 🙂
New Art illustrations – ‘What Boys Do’
Hi, hope you are well. I have been thinking recently of focusing on some work based on boys at play, I am calling the series ‘What Boys Do’. It’s been fun zooming in on these illustrations, usually I do a lot of girl characters. I have had ideas for these sketches for sometime. It’s going to be a fun process. It will be good if I can produce at least 30 images. I already did this little cutie called ‘Catch’
Angler Fish is My Favourite Animal
Morning, I thought I would share the art process for this little Angler a Fish. This is a digital painting done completely in procreate and my approach in colouring him in is slightly different. I usually use the colour black to sketch.
Image 1: I used a mustard colour to do the basic sketch of my little character. The animals in the favourite animal series Vary in size and I always try to make them flow together, the child and animal.
Image 2: here I start to add the colour of the fish. It’s a kind of rust brown. My research revealed different dark tones that the angler fish has. I really liked this warmer colour. Once I know what colours I am using. It starts to create adventurous associate colours.
Image 3: for some reason a turquoise blue popped into my head. I tend to expand to the range of shades within a colour group. So in my next picture I add other blues to that particular section.
Image 4: I have added the skin tone. The rustic brown is also on the lower body area now and it’s all about tying it all together.
Image 5: the Finished artwork. I have tried to take on the persona of the boy in tandem with the expected awkwardness and ugliness of the Angler Fish.
This is a video of the process on YouTube.
Retrospection
Hi folks, hope your day has been lovely. Recently I have been thinking about my art and what I am presently about. I feel that as the years go by as an artist, it’s good to have a new look at my work. My values might have changed. My ideas may have shifted. But hopefully not so much that I loose myself. The plumb line self. My portraits still read as figures of innocence. I read the playfulness of childhood. The appreciation if nature. The physicality in dance. Representation of kids and family. More soon..
Leaf Ride – Free Three day Art Download
Entitled ‘Leaf Ride’
This artwork will be available for THREE days only, as a file to download.
Just follow this image link to download the artwork.
After THREE days it will be available on my etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/HYSSOPARTS?ref=hdr_shop_menu
New Art Prints in my Etsy Shop
Morning everyone, this is a quick post to say I have new prints in my shop. So just follow the shop link in the banner browser to view them in my etsy shop. Have an amazing morning.
Painting process I
1) Layered paper and first topping of acrylic
2) Second layer of acrylic findings form and structure with colours I want to use.
3) drawing in object, item or character.
4) more layers
5) basically finished. Will look back on it in a few days if more work is required. I loved doing this painting. Fun in deed. Thank you for reading it.