Featured Student for July
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 @chrisaakins - I always love your cute little mice illustrations. 
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 @Coley - The polar bear is so sweet and adorable! The skies in both of these are beautiful! 
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 Here I go!   
  
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 @KajsaH These are really nice, I especially love the atmosphere and light in the top image! 
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 Here are a couple of things I've been working on lately...   
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 @Rachel-Horne thank you! 
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 @Dima-Eichhorn thanks for getting the posts started! I really like how you positioned the different characters in your second image to convey the narrative. 
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 @Coley I really love your use of texture in these images (especially on the house and moon). 
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 @Elena-Marengoni watercolor is such a beautiful medium, and I really like the style you use with it. Wonderful work! 
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 @Rachel-Horne your use of texture in your work looks great! 
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 @AustinShurtliff Thank you a lot for this comment. It means a lot to me.    
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 @AustinShurtliff thanks, btw I saw on another post you said you like finding fellow Canadians online, I’m in Newfoundland! We were in bc last summer for mountain biking with the kids, loved it! 
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 @chrisaakins This is my new favorite piece of yours.  I love the lighting and watercolor elements. I love the lighting and watercolor elements.
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 @AustinShurtliff thank you!! You're right, watercolor is an interesting medium and is really fun to use! 
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 Most (all) of my art these days are inspired by random drawing prompts generated by my new app. You can see some of them here: https://www.instagram.com/ArtPromptsApp/ The first one was : “Draw a Turtle which is a Librarian with a pair of slippers in a Haunted House.” Not sure what to call this piece. Either: 
 “Sorry it’s late. - I was at my funeral”
 Which, according to my librarian wife, is the only valid excuse to return a book late.Or maybe I should simply call it: 
 “The late King George returns...”
 What do you think?
  The next one was inspired by the prompt: 
 “Draw an ostrich that is taking a bath”After some research for reference photos, I came across the iconic scene from Pretty Woman - and I just knew I had to paint this ..... 
  You can see a bit of my process for this painting on instagram: 
 https://www.instagram.com/p/B-5Vlu9F-QG/If you want to help test the ArtPrompts iOS app you can get it here: 
 http://artprompts.bofrese.dk
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 @AustinShurtliff thank you  
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 @Coley thats so cool! I think the thing that I have missed the most since moving to the US is the lack of green and trees in the areas I have lived in. I've heard Newfoundland is a beautiful place too. 
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 @KajsaH love the first submission reminds me of another work I have seen.  
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 @AustinShurtliff soooo many trees here! I had a hard time when I lived in Halifax and that’s not a big city, I used to hug trees in the park lol. Now I live right on the edge of wilderness so I walk across my driveway and up into the wilderness every day . We’re pretty lucky pandemic wise here too, so far, just got to no cases in the province tho we’ll see what happens in the fall. Sure is nice for now. Have a good day, fellow Canadian  
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