Category Archives: Watercolour

Bookmarks for Books

A Delicate Fantasy, Watercolour,

I’ve created some output – the Books range of Bookmarks.

murpworks Book Bookmarks image

I’ve finished the first range of watercolour Bookmarks. The range is intuitively called Books 😉

Each bookmark was inspired by a love of books. There’s A Stack of Books, The Book Table, The Bookcase, A Quill and Mouse Books.

They’re held in Glassine (it’s the technical term for shiny paper) to protect them from the elements (and grubby hands) so you’re not getting to see them at their best.

rp & I are in the process of sourcing a printer to get some really good quality prints we can put up on Etsy, where they will be available to purchase. We have a printer in mind and will hopefully have something sorted by the end of the month. Once printed, we’ll open up shop.

The Books Bookmark range is the first for A Delicate Fantasy –
the watercolour work of artist mu (that’s me).

Watercolours inspired by flora & fauna, with a delicate fantasy.

Hope you like the preview…

mu

murpworks Afloat – Porthole Reeds Watercolour

murpworks Afloat, Watercolour,

murpworks Afloat – Porthole Reeds watercolour

murpworks Porthole Reeds lrg image

I’ve been working on the idea of murpworks Afloat and it’s developed a little further. murpworks Afloat combines our move to living on a narrowboat with being creative.

 

Porthole Reeds

The porthole was inspired by a photograph taken in the narrowboat we’re buying.

Porthole - Mirrlees Reflection image

The idea is to use the round porthole window as a view on our world and incorporate images and scenes; real and fantastical. The porthole will capture images we see, when we glance out and also scenes that pass by. It will combine the use of stills & animation, watercolour & digital media. The image above is the first output from this, entitled Porthole Reeds.

The image mixes both watercolour and digital manipulation to convey the serenity of a green world. There, that almost sounds arty 🎨  😉

 

🎨 courtesy of emojipedia

 

mu

A New Brush Sweeps Clean

Equipment, Watercolour, , ,

They say a new brush sweeps clean but who are they? Anyway, I’m hoping these new brushes help me continue to develop my watercolour painting.

Brush - Brushes image

 

They’re Daler <> Rowney synthetic Aquafine watercolour brushes, three Round; a 0, a 2/0 and a 2 and one Liner; a 10/0 (it must mean something to someone 😉 )

They bristles are synthetic, so no animals were de-furred in the making of them. I hate the thought of squirrels or boars running around with parts of their ‘coat’ missing. Especially in this cold weather 🙁

The brush heads – bristles are very small, which is fine as all my work tends to be tiny – no big swathes of canvas to cover.

Brush - brushes II image

I’m currently thinking about what to paint with them and I’ll update on how I find them once I’ve had a chance to use them in earnest. I need to start something soon as I’d hate to be thought of as someone with ‘all the gear and no idea’ lol!

I found this great article about the antomy of a paintbrush at clothpapersissors.com.

I think I’ll go and update my equipment list 🤓 *

 

*  Emojipedia – Nerd Face

mu

Porthole for murpworks Afloat

Animation, Watercolour

I’m currently working on a porthole illustration for murpworks Afloat

mu - murpworks Afloat image

My inspiration is taken from one of the portholes on the narrowboat we’re going to be living aboard, with a little bit of artistic licence thown in. I want to use the porthole as a window on the world we’ll be living in, looking out into imagination.

Porthole - Mirrlees Reflection image

murpworks Afloat Animations

My aim is to have a series of animations play in the window. I’m currently throwing ideas around and trying to come up with a list. It’s exciting to be at the start of a new project. I’m going to continue using Smith Micro‘s Anime Studio 11 for the animating bit.

I’m also updating the murpworks logo and it will also incorporate the porthole.

mu