Posts Tagged ‘cowcow’

Cowcow on MDF

I came across some inexpensive medium density fiberboard or MDF recently. I’ve never heard of them before but I’ve been wanting to try painting on surfaces other than paper, so I gave MDF a whirl. I painted my cow character above directly on the board with poster paints and colored pencils. Not bad for a test painting, I think. I’ve already gessoed my other MDF boards (so I don’t paint directly on the surface and cause warping) and bought gouache paints which I’m experimenting with. I’m looking to offer mini paintings like this on the shop as well, but it’s not a priority at the moment. I have 52,104 ideas for the shop I can’t wait to execute but I’m concentrating on paper goods first, which is our main offering. One step at a time…

A few months ago, I made this illustration and put it up on my Flickr account.

Cowcow and Chicken Save the Animals

A few weeks ago, I got an e-mail from Julie of Sew It’s For You telling me she borrowed my illustration and turned it into a towel for her friend.

Isn’t it cute? I think she really did them justice!

Cowcow and Chicken are my own original characters. They’re actually me (Chicken) and my boyfriend (Cowcow). As mushy (or weird?) as it sounds and as hesitant as I am to put this little tidbit on such a public space, Cowcow and Chicken are our pet names for each other. Never mind why.

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Work not in progress

I am in the process of photographing and writing up item descriptions for the stuff to be listed on my Etsy shop some time within this week. This is just a sneak peek at what’s coming, except this particular item isn’t going to be included as I messed it up when I sprayed it with protective acrylic glaze and forgot to weigh down the newspaper it was lying on. A gust of wind blew it face down on the newspaper, causing the newsprint to stick to the wet image. Sigh. Oh well. Lesson learned!

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The super sweet and talented Lori of Fresh Picked Whimsy gave me a blogging award and it’s my first, too! I put it next to my illustration of a little girl for better presentation :P

Thank you, Lori! I’ll have to sleep on this first before deciding whom to pass it on to; I have a lot of favorite bloggers and it’s hard to pick just a few!

Save the Animals