I See You Laughing Too!

Laughing Squirrel is one of my most popular designs. It seems like almost every day somebody is checking him out. I have been very surprised by the popularity of this little guy!

Squirrel Stickers - Plain with Text by debipayne
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Laughing Squirrel is actually just a single element from a much larger picture that I created about a year ago for my little Grandson, Conner.

I wanted to take a photograph of Conner and create a drawing around his photograph so that it would look like he was in a fairy tale storybook.

This is the photograph that I selected to use. It is a picture of Conner at his 3rd Birthday Party. He had just opened a present and gotten a big balloon that he was very excited about.

I first extracted Conner from the photo. I then began drawing the different elements that I wanted to have in the final drawing. I knew that I wanted an open field scene with different forest type animals around Conner.

I first drew each individual animal and then scanned it into the computer. Once on the computer, I then refined the lines and colored each drawing. When I had completed each element I put them all together to get this final picture:

When Conner first saw the picture, he was confused. After his dad slowly explained the picture to him, Conner started laughing and saying “I’m holding a bird”! His two favorite parts of the picture are #1 - he is holding a bird and #2 – the laughing squirrel. Conner thinks it is funny that the squirrel is laughing at him.

So Conner, this one is for you!

New Art for The New Year

Cubism Art is a style of art that I have been fascinated with, but have had a great deal of difficulty in figuring it out. I first became interested in Cubism Art when I saw a collection created by Pablo Picasso several years go. The thing that drew my attention was the bright colors and odd lines. At first it was confusing to me because it seemed like there were lines in places where lines didn’t belong, but somehow it worked.

As I started finding other artist that created art in this Cubism style, I found most of them bored me and I was not attracted to it at all. However, I always kept going back to Picasso’s work trying to figure it out.

The past couple of years I have tried to create my art using the Cubism style, but I (for some reason unknown to me) could never make it work. Instead it would just be aggravating and frustrate me. I could never feel comfortable while trying to work it out.

Then last month I was trying to work on some new art, when all of the sudden, and much to my surprise, there it was. What I had just created was the Cubism style of art. All of the sudden, in that moment, I finally understood Cubism Art. I understood the purpose of the lines and what made each individual piece of the art all flow together as one. Finally, I got it! However, it still felt boring to me.

Now that I understood how it worked, my next challenge was to figure out how to bring this style of art to life. I had to figure out how I could mix this Cubism style with my Whimsical style. I am happy to announce that for this New Year I have New Art of which I call “Whimsical Cubism”.

To start with I have three pieces of Whimsical Cubism art; “Heart”, “Flower” and “Butterfly”. All three pieces turned out to be really fun, happy pieces, and for those that like bright colors (like I do) you are going to love it. I think that this is going to be one of those things where you are going to either “love it” or you are going “hate it”, I can’t see anybody having the attitude of ‘take it or leave it’.

So, which is it for you?

Whimsical Cubism Heart iPad Case by debipayne
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Whimsical Cubism Flower Necklace with Background by debipayne
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