Wow, this was a great experience. I feel I created a few really good pieces over the past few months for MATS Bootcamp. July's theme was create a piece of art based on your favorite drink. I love coffee even though you could also assume from my piece I also enjoy tea.
Read MoreI really wanted to complete my Nautical piece. I've been working on it for the past couple weeks and I think I've finally got it to a point where I am happy. I'm excited to print this and hang it in my son's room (when he's ready to have his own room).
Read MoreJune's MATS Bootcamp assignment was Nautical wall art. Unfortunately I did not meet the deadline but I am still working on it.
I really enjoyed this theme. I did a lot of sketches of ships in bottles, sailors and mermaids, pirates, boats and sea creatures. I think the hardest part was deciding which elements to use but no worries, I will eventually flesh out the ones I like and save them for a rainy day.
Read MoreI really loved the first theme of cuckoo clocks for the MATS Bootcamp assignment for February. In a few of my doodles I explored teapot clocks inspired by the dormouse from Alice in Wonderland. I decided to flesh out some of my sketches after joining a Facebook group spinoff that posed "assignments" every month or so. It's more of a way to stay self motivated without actually committing to another class. I've found it very inspiring networking with so many other talented people who are in a similar boat as I am (wanting to do more creative work but are either too busy with family life or have a full time job that is not illustration). I've probably done more personal work and sketching in the past couple months than I did all last year!
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