tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22776387234635133012012-01-14T15:17:46.847-06:00I hope to use this blog to post my drawings and other artwork for comment and an easy way to show my portfolio. Please do not copy this artwork without my permission, thankyou. Michelle HoustonMichellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12267736732094398885noreply@blogger.comBlogger661100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2277638723463513301.post-85275013260467624532012-01-14T15:17:00.001-06:002012-01-14T15:17:46.859-06:00

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Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12267736732094398885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2277638723463513301.post-18769533873364860592011-07-19T18:34:00.003-06:002011-07-19T18:48:19.060-06:00

So this needle felting thing has really captured my attention and my time! I just happened to be looking for an animal and searched it in images and these amazing needle felted animals appeared. I knew I would have to find out how they were done and make some myself. I then "googled" needle felted animals, and up popped some incredible creations. I also found a web site that sold the supplies I

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This was the first pastel I tried on paper.

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So I've really gotten hooked on this needle felting thing. I just happened so see some amazing animals done this way and just had to try it. I didn't have a clue as to where I could buy supplies so I looked online and found " Living Felt", where I purchased some supplies. I also found a store in nearby Peterborough where I could buy the wool and then later found a GREAT store in Port Hope!! I'm

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I did these owls for a wedding gift for good friends of ours. This was done with chalk pastel on velour paper.

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I thought this would be a fun shot to do.

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I enjoy drawing and painting birds and especially owls.

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I really like the foxes colours against the snow. I did this on velour paper using chalk pastel. The velour paper allows you to get a nice soft feeling when doing animals.

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I haven't used pastel in years and thought I'd like to try it again. I had a lot of fun doing this picture.

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Pronghorn are one of the animals that live on the vast prarie in Canada, our plains. Unfortunatly I didn't use a good quality paper and it caused ripples in the sky.

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This is a portrait I did of a friends horse "Reggie", in water color and pencil crayon. He won the Queens Plate in the 90's and recently passed away. He will be missed on our trail rides through the Ganaraska forest.

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I met Chuck Jones in college and managed to get his autograph on this old peice of animation paper. A classic!

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I did this little sketch of our friends old barn before they did renovations and tore down part of it to re build. It had real character.

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This topic reminded me of the poem, " The Owl and The Pussycat"

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Alligator, Beaver, Chimp & Chicken, Duck, Elephant,Fox , Giraffe, Hippo, Ibex, Jaguar, Kangaroo, Lion, Mink, Nightingale, Otter, Penguin, Quail, Raccoon, Skunk, Tiger, Ulysses Butterfly, Vulture, Wolf, Xenops, Yack Zebra.

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Here are some twisty otters. They were done in watercolor with some pencil crayon. I haven't posted in quite some time and wanted to do something. This didn't turn out quite the way I wanted it to but it's a start. I should have done this on better paper, it didn't take to water very well and there are wobbles in it, but it kinda adds to the water effect.

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A Polar Parade! The picture was a bit too large for my scanner, but I got most of it.

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My son suggested this one.

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I haven't posted in a while, I've been very busy, but I wanted to post for this topic. I had to do it quickly and chose to do a more stylized design. Hmmm... Not too sure what I think yet, but here it is.

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The first thing I thought of when I saw this weeks topic was our "wired" Boarder Collie, Ben.

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A group of gabby geese.

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Here are some Gannet chicks as well as some adult studies.

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I did a couple of pages of these birds as a study for a show I worked on. I really enjoy the development side of my job. I love researching and discovering new things.

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This was a little sketch I did for my husband. You'll notice the otter theme reoccurring. They're one of my favortie animals.

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I did this horse portrait of a friends mare, Sasha, in chalk pastel on a sheet of velour paper. I really enjoy this medium. You can get a very soft look. Sorry for the photo quality, but this is a scan of a photo that wasn't very clear.

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This is a drawing I did for some friends who breed Arabian horses. Their buissiness was called, "Hackamore Arabians".

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This was a exercise for me using pencil , concentrating on lights and darks without colour to get in the way. I left some areas unfinished not to get too wrapped up in details. My scanner wasn't big enough to show the whole drawing.

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This was something I did while at the ROM in Toronto trying to loosen up and have some fun with colored inks.

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A very quick, rough sketch.

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I did a small study of a girafe head and then decided to have some fun with a characture.

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I am very interested in how a birds wings work. They are amazing to watch and I'm never get bored watching them around the many bird feeders I have in my yard.

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This is a small sketch I did of one of my favortie birds.

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I did this sheep at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto as a pencil sketch.

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This was an owl I did for Redwall. It didn't make the final design, but I had fun doing it.

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Here are a couple of veiws of a crow character.

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This Barn Owl was one of the owls I researched for a character .

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These little guys are piled on one another and make a comical sketch.

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These were fun to draw. Birds can be challenging for me, but I really enjoy drawing them.

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Here are some gulls I designed for one of the shows I worked on.

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This is the last of the otter sketches for now, though I know I'll be drawing more of these guys.

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Some more otters.

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Here are some of my favorite critters, river otters. I've done a few pages of these fun creatures. They never cease to fascinate me.

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Here's a quick watercolor sketch.

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