Weekly Art Challenge - Kookaburra

This week's art challenge was to draw a kookaburra. Ben had been commissioned to do a cd cover which funnily enough required a kookaburra design - wise theme selection on Ben's behalf there. To give him credit Ben actually works super long hours 7 days a week for six weeks at a time, so I applaud the few hours he has a night to get art done in (and ring me!)

Ben's Version

I think Ben owned this challenge, I actually thought it would be super easy for me but maybe I over thought it! I actually contemplating starting the whole piece over but I kind of lost interest :p

My Version

Onto next weeks challenge I say! 

Actually I think we may have hit a slow pace - I haven't even picked next week's theme yet, any ideas people?

And a shot of our stencils in action (from last week's challenge)

  These were taken under our house where there are actually many many stencils - we had fun!

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Weekly Art Challenge - Stencil

I think we're up to the third week of our art challenge - missed a few weeks when Ben was back :p

This week was Stencil, not the most glamorous but this challenge had a practical element! 

I love moths so I went the moth route, I was constantly thinking about creating a stencil that would hold up in it's stencil application but then I saw Ben's stencil and realised maybe I should been a tad more creative :p

Our next week's challenge is a fun/cute one, oddly enough I picked the stencil's theme and next week's theme, Kookaburra, Ben picked :)

 Hey if you want to play along feel free to do so!

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Weekly art Challenge - Robot

Okay this week Ben got to pick the theme and it was robots *bites nails* not what I'd normally do so I kind of cheated and made something I wanted to draw into a robot :p I actually got the idea on the toilet, you know when you're searching for a idea and it ends up being right in front of you, yup there's a whale poster in our toilet :)

And ben's awesome robot below - you can check out more of his work on his Facebook page (gotta pimp his talents out :)

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Weekly Art Challenge - Fox

When we first met, Ben and I started a weekly art challenge that ended after around six weeks - 
hey commitment is hard :p 

Recently, we've both been going through art slumps so we decided to bring back the art challenge as a fun way for us to make art and also (just quietly from me) to stay connected whilst we're apart. I got to pick the first weeks theme, which no doubt was going to be something cute - meet Mr. fennec fox below!

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And here what I ended up creating - I initially sketched him, thinking I'd work more on him over the week but got super excited, whipped out my paints and finished him in a few hours

It's nice to be drawing again!

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