Artform The Heart: March 2010

Art Nouveau Roses

I've always been a fan of art nouveau, especially the work of Charles Rennie MacIntosh and his wife Margaret McDonald. I created a range of MacIntosh inspired designs specifically for products on zazzle, this is one of them.

Art Nouveau Roses by ArtformTheHeart

Gerbera Daisy

I bought a graphics tablet to use for my digital art projects and began playing around in the free software that came with it; trying out brushes and doodling. After about half an hour of getting used to the pen I began 'painting' this daisy that was in a bouqet I had. After a few hours working on it, this is the end result.

Yellow Daisy by ArtformTheHeart

Droplets Suspended

After a light rain one morning I went outside with my camera looking for something inspiring in the garden beyond the usual flower and foliage shots. I noticed these rain droplets suspended above the stones on the finest of spider's webs, so fine they were almost invisible even close up. I took this shot and converted it to black and white for maximum effect. I love how it appears that the droplets are suspended in mid-air.

Droplets Suspended by ArtformTheHeart

Pop Art

I started out with just one of these watercolor paintings for my own amusement, and enjoyed the subject so much that I created another two. The fourth image in the set is a digital manipulation of one of the original paintings. It's available as a poster and two versions as t-shirts.

Original Pop Art Print by ArtformTheHeart

Dark Woods

This is a simple pastels drawing of dark and eerie woods in moonlight. This was one of those rare occassions when I had nothing in mind when I begans puting the marks onto the paper, I just went with what began to appear and developed it. It's available as posters, mousepads and t-shirts at present.

Dark Woods by ArtformTheHeart

That Friday Feeling!!!!

Slightly stuck for inspiration one rainy afternoon I decided to play around with my camera and one of my wooden artists mannequins, this was the result. I have plans to do more pieces like this but haven't managed to find the time so far.

That Friday feeling !!!! by ArtformTheHeart

Seated

This is an acrylic on canvas piece, part of a set of three. Taking a break from finely detailed work, I decided to something modern and abstract. I was reasonably happy with the results but being a perfectionist I will never be 100% satisfied with anything that I do.

seated by ArtformTheHeart

I wanted to update this post with the new version of this set that I added to zazzle recently:

"Seated" Poster by ArtformTheHeart
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White Tiger Cub

This began life as a preliminary sketch for a comissioned piece in color pastels featuring two tiger cubs however I liked this one so much in black and white that I went ahead and completed it in charcoal.

White Tiger Cub in Charcoal by ArtformTheHeart

le Chat

This was one of my early digital art designs. Vector swirls in shades of pink manipulated to form the shape of a cat. Depicted here as a simple greetings card.

Cat by ArtformTheHeart

Sagittarius

I created a series of characters depicting the signs of the zodiac. Some, like this one, are children whilst others are animals. It was my first foray into using digital media for my designs and my previous experience had extended only to touching up the odd photograph. I deliberately kept the designs simple and childlike simply because I thought it looked rather cute. This is Sagittarius depicted on a ladies T-shirt.