Animals – sparking the flash

When Ideas Alight

October 16, 2017October 16, 2017Posted in Animals, Drawings, Tiny StuffTagged birds, chicks, creativity, eggs, hatchlings, ideas, illustration, incubating, tinystuffLeave a comment

Shrimps Take to the Skies

October 10, 2017October 10, 2017Posted in Animals, Celebration, Tiny StuffTagged art, birthday, boots, Celebration, drawing, flying, holiday, illustration, plane, shrimp, sydney, tinystuffLeave a comment

i.e. my sister and I went to Sydney for the weekend in celebration of her birthday.

Birthday Shrimp

October 10, 2017October 10, 2017Posted in Animals, Celebration, Diary, Drawings, Greeting Cards, Tiny Stuff, watercolourTagged 30th birthday, art, birthday, cake, drawing, drawing on the right side of the brain, illustration, ocean, party, prawn, sea, sea horse, shrimp, Tiny Stuff, watercolourLeave a comment

Birthday card for my little sister. I call her shrimpy because she is small and shrimp-like.

Resigned

July 17, 2017July 17, 2017Posted in Animals, Drawings, Tiny StuffTagged cat, cats, dog, dogs, drawing, grumpy, illustration, ink, mistrust, pets, puppy, relationships, suspicion, tinystuffLeave a comment

Auntie’s 50th Birthday Card

June 12, 2017June 12, 2017Posted in Animals, Celebration, Greeting Cards, painting, Tiny Stuff, watercolourTagged art, auntie, aunty, birthday, card, dogs, drawing, greeting card, illustration, koh-i-noor, neef, painting, puppies, watercolourLeave a comment

WHERE IDEAS ALIGHT. A HAVEN FOR SHORT STORIES, SKETCHES AND OTHER TINY STUFF.

Out and About

May 15, 2017May 15, 2017Posted in Animals, Drawings, Non-fiction, painting, People, The Creative Process, watercolourTagged art, beer, Brisbane, brisbaneart, cafe, dentist, dialogue, dogs, drawing, illustration, journal, Lynda Barry, observations, qag, qag cafe, queensland art gallery, syllabus, tinystuff, watercolor, watercolourLeave a comment

What I’ve been seeing; what I’ve been hearing.

No Velociraptors Allowed

March 20, 2017March 20, 2017Posted in Animals, Tiny StuffTagged art, creativity, dinosaur, doitfortheprocess, drawing, illustration, inspire, motivation, thecreativeprocess, tinystuff, tyrannosaurus, velociraptorLeave a comment

The Job Search

March 13, 2017March 13, 2017Posted in Animals, Tiny StuffTagged blackandwhite, career, cartoon, digging, dogs, doodle, drawing, employee, employer, employment, holes, illustration, ink, jobhunting, jobs, jobsearch, pets, search, seeking, stay motivated, whitelines, whitelinespaper, workLeave a comment

Doctor Leechpants

February 15, 2017Posted in Animals, Drawings, Greeting Cards, Tiny StuffTagged 30, art, birthday, card, creativity, creepy, drawing, greeting card, humor, humour, illustration, ink, leech, pants, red, thirtieth, tinystuff, wildlifeLeave a comment

Made this card for a friend who has a pet leech.

His name is Doctor Leechpants (the leech, not the friend).

Inside it reads:

Yup. You’re another year older. A new decade, even.

But at least you have feet.

The Forest for the Trees

February 10, 2017February 10, 2017Posted in Animals, Drawings, flash fiction, People, Tiny StuffTagged art, doodle, drawing, fiction, forest, granddaughter, grandmother, illustration, ink, oma, story, tinystuff, trees, writingLeave a comment

When the granddaughter came to visit, the grandmother spent the entire time listing the people who no longer had time to visit her.

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