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Just popping in quickly, because wanted to send you the very best of wishes for the New Year...
And thought you might find this little 2022 animated gif useful. (And it is very small and light, as I deliberately cropped and optimised to give you a small image for sending wherever you'd like. Just click, right-click or tap, depending upon your device, to share it).
See you again in a few days. More soon!
Following on from yesterday, it turns out that those rainbow birds did have a little more adventure to go, but not in quite the way I had thought.
I didn't add more to the picture, but I did turn it into a pattern. Which ends up looking like this... in my Redbubble shop...
And the nifty thing is, they're a lovely way to treat yourself and brighten up the winter, rather than being just for any festive season.
Update 22/12/20: The design is now also available on fabric:
More tomorrow.
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The birds in the video were not of course, anything like these colours, being mostly small and brown, bless them.
But watching that made me think about what it would be like if they *were* rainbow-coloured, (like my robin from Day 85)...
Which was just a hop, skip and a jump (or in this case, flutter) away from adding in rainbow splats too, and more snow, twigs and trees, And before you know it (really fast, by my standards) this digital painting in Krita was the result.
Am still calling it work-in-progress though. Am leaving it here for now, but suspect there's something more to come here.
More tomorrow.
Today's was going to be a *massive* post, all about how it's 10 years to the day since I first attempted to draw anything. (With a mouse, because I didn't have a fancy graphics pen. Feeling like an idiot, and completely mystified about why I was trying this thing I ,"couldn't do". And it really was a "first-time" feeling...Prior to that, I'd decided, pretty firmly, that I "couldn't draw," when I was about three).
So, telling that story in detail was the plan. Then the internet went down. Now, this wasn't as bad as it seems...Am lucky on so many levels to be with The Computer Man.
But our internet was down for just long enough that all there's time for is.... 1) Huge gratitude to my past self that I took that leap, and to you all for sticking with me...
And 2) sketching this little rainbow Christmas robin, in traditional watercolour and pen, but a "rainbow style, " that's as new to me in that medium as was trying to do art at all, a decade ago.
So I'm looking backwards and forwards today. Which turns out to be the perfect way to celebrate, after all...
More tomorrow.
PS. Have just added this design to my Redbubble shop. Depending on where you live, you may need to act very fast if you want this design to be part of your Christmas this year. (Obviously, this won't apply if you're reading this at a later date...;-)
