tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28029365010249995292024-03-13T17:36:02.107+00:00TIMBALLOOAdventures in illustration.JenRussellSmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17434239769227198161noreply@blogger.comBlogger352125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2802936501024999529.post-79624084945489111082013-08-02T15:49:00.000+01:002013-08-02T15:49:20.808+01:00Moving<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, the time has come for a <a href="http://www.jenrussellsmith.co.uk/" target="_blank">new website</a>. It's a little bit more focused, I hope, and excitingly includes details of my new <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/JenRussellSmith?ref=si_shop" target="_blank">Etsy shop</a> where you can buy prints of some of my work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thank you to everyone who's read the things I've posted here over the last few years - you're all very much appreciated! And please come and visit me at the new site: <a href="http://www.jenrussellsmith.co.uk/">www.jenrussellsmith.co.uk</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I know it's been rather quiet round here recently, but there is a (fairly) good reason. I'm in the throes of creating a sparkly new and hopefully less cobbled-together and more focused site for myself and it's taking up all my internet-time. Link to follow as soon as it's ready!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On Tuesday I found time to pop along to this month's <a href="http://deathdrawing.com/" target="_blank">Art Macabre</a> drawing salon at <a href="http://www.cassart.co.uk/category/events/" target="_blank">Cass Art Islington</a>. The theme was A Midsummer Night's Scream...</span><br />
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<br />JenRussellSmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17434239769227198161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2802936501024999529.post-7174851939406549052013-06-21T09:00:00.000+01:002013-06-21T09:00:09.630+01:00Illustration Friday: Worn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's Nick's birthday today, and I usually give him a hand-drawn card.This year's features Vince and me in our usual pose, with him looking as uncomfortable as possible...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm a Tuesday child myself, full of grace apparently... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Still thinking about <a href="http://timballoo.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/flowers-in-her-hair.html" target="_blank">swanning about in that lacy frock</a>, clearly...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Visit <a href="http://thegiftshed.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Emma</a> to see what lovely green things have grown in her sketchbook this week?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To be honest, that much cake would probably be a little bit <i>too </i><a href="http://illustrationfriday.com/topic/sweet/" target="_blank">sweet</a>...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The sun is finally shining and all I'd like to do is swan about in a lacy frock with flowers in my hair. Sadly, real life intervenes and the reality is more nude tights and hair stuck in lipgloss. Oh well...</span></div>
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<br />JenRussellSmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17434239769227198161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2802936501024999529.post-20283344204242401982013-06-02T11:00:00.000+01:002013-06-02T11:00:00.640+01:00Sunday Sketchblog #59<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've had one of those weeks where nothing I draw seems to turn out right... sometimes trying new things is just exhausting and frustrating! So I ended up reverting to something familiar and straight forward, a self portrait. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(Apologies to anyone who now has that Britney Spears song stuck in their heads...)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Whilst whizzing through my blog reader, trying to catch up on three weeks' worth of posts, I happened to notice someone (can't now remember who, of course) talking about emerald green and how it was thought that the dye used to create the colour in wallpaper may have contributed to Napoleon's death. Hence this sketch, and what seems to sound a bit like a Sherlock Holmes story title.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Clearly all the recent celebrating has gone to my head, because my interpretation of this week's topic, <a href="http://illustrationfriday.com/" target="_blank">liquid</a>, has ended up like this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When I started drawing her, I think she was going to be in blue and drinking water. But it turned into Champagne. Or maybe ginger beer? That could explain her slightly confused expression... trying to figure out just what is in that glass.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, the wedding and honeymoon are over (all successful and and lovely!) and it's back to real life. Whilst it's a bit sad to pack away all the wedding paraphernalia, I'm very excited to get back to having time for other things and other interests again.</span></div>
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<br />JenRussellSmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17434239769227198161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2802936501024999529.post-86414472168706089252013-04-14T11:00:00.000+01:002013-04-14T11:00:06.363+01:00Sunday Sketchblog #57<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I often wondered why planning a wedding seemed to be such a big job. I still do, as I'm not sure <i>what's</i> taking up all our time, but take up our time it does. So this week's sketch was just a quick one whilst attempting to sort out the music... nothing like a bit of multi-tasking!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Usually I try to make sure my Sunday Sketchblog is something I've drawn from life, but not this week...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As you read this, I will hopefully be recovering from my 'hen party'. I have no idea what we're doing, except that I've been told to organise myself a 1920s outfit. I'm pretty confident there won't be any L plates or strippers, but I'm not sure we'll manage to comport ourselves as elegantly as these ladies...</span><br />
<br />JenRussellSmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17434239769227198161noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2802936501024999529.post-34369936288628267422013-04-05T09:00:00.000+01:002013-04-07T20:29:25.759+01:00Illustration Friday: Egg<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A very seasonal <a href="http://illustrationfriday.com/" target="_blank">topic</a> again, although I've tried not to give in too much to the obvious Easteryness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For those who might not be familiar with some of the rarer types of egg I've featured here, a Scotch egg is a hardboiled egg wrapped in sausage meat and breadcrumbs, a curate's egg is one that is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curate's_egg" target="_blank">'excellent in parts'</a> and a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg" target="_blank">century egg</a> is one that has been preserved for a terribly long time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Especially when the question is 'how can we ever get warm during this never-ending winter!'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Happy Easter! I hope the Easter Bunny has left plenty of chocolate eggs under your pillow...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A seasonal sketch - this little chap has been sitting on my desk all week. I have a (convenient, if admittedly slightly indulgent) delivery of little snacks from <a href="https://www.graze.com/uk/products" target="_blank">Graze</a> every week and at certain seasonal times of the year they like to include a little figurine to assemble out of cardboard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(If anyone has been tempted by my slothlike ways and also fancies having food delivered to their desk, using the <a href="http://www.graze.com/uk/p/3GFHMX5" target="_blank">code 3GFHMX5 when you sign up</a> will give you a free box and me a pound off, I think!) </span>JenRussellSmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17434239769227198161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2802936501024999529.post-54469495954145505522013-03-29T09:00:00.000+00:002013-03-29T09:00:06.596+00:00Illustration Friday: Swim<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This week's topic is <a href="http://illustrationfriday.com/" target="_blank">swim</a>, so here are some very aquatic (and probably rather chilly) swimming ladies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I must admit that I'm not great with water - I get seasick when on it, and am very worried about eels and drowning when in it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I don't actually paint my nails much. I know it's the current thing, to have nails covered in tiger print or seasonal flowers or made to look like beetles or whatever, but for some reason whenever I paint my nails it makes me look like I have old-lady hands and I find that unnerving. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nonetheless, I have some in my desk drawer so that's what I seized upon when looking for something to sketch this week. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Visit <a href="http://thegiftshed.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Emma</a> and <a href="http://poglepaints.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Hayley</a> to see if they've been sketching this week, too.</span>JenRussellSmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17434239769227198161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2802936501024999529.post-55599132089756270222013-03-22T09:00:00.000+00:002013-03-22T09:00:06.472+00:00Illustration Friday: Eye Glasses<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://illustrationfriday.com/" target="_blank"><i>Eye </i>glasses</a> to distinguish them from drinking glasses, I suppose. Or field glasses. Or opera glasses? Anyway...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Inspired by the famous saying, which felt needed a slightly more spectacle-positive update. On which subject, when Nick and I were first dating I mentioned in advance that I might be wearing my glasses the next time we met. And he told me not to, as he might not like me as much in them! I can't remember whether I did wear them or not, but I like to remind him of his bad behaviour sometimes and point out he was lucky he got another date at all after that...</span><br />
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