Hi, I'm Andrea, and I'm interested in creatures and plants both wild and tamed, and people of all sorts. I only use a compact digital camera ,as I love being able to get it into a back pocket, and not have to cart heavy kit about. I carry a Panasonic Lumix TZ series, binoculars and a hand lens almost everywhere.Most of my outings are with the dogs so I only use point and shoot.
I am getting the hang of Photoshop, thanks to some very kind folk on RR!
I have a wildlife garden in Bournemouth, Dorset, in the UK, and spend a lot of time there . I retired from teaching art to teenagers a while ago.
I'm now getting some good results with my digi compacts; it took me a while to make the switch from my old film camera, an 1960 ish Pentax Spotmatic, but the mistakes are much cheaper!
I have 4 lodgers, 3 dogs and a parrot who, as at 2017, I have had 40 years.
I has so far had 19 dogs, mostly rescues.
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Comments (26)
FloydianSlip
That's awesome!!!!! I love it! Happy Valentines Day. :)
kgb224
Amazing work Andrea. God bless.
Adobe_One_Kenobi
I think it works very well for my eye, I like the pastel hues and the bolder ink lines. This would make a great album cover for a prog rock band. Or someone like the Ozzrics.
jendellas
I love your doodles, they are fabulous!!
bebopdlx
You need to doodle more, very cool work. Happy Valentine’s Day.
jayfar
This is a very good doodle Andrea and I see that Iris is not missing any of the goings on !
wysiwig
Buzz over on flickr said it best. The creative ones are often their own worst critics. I have always loved you doodles. They exhibit such a fantastic and often magical imagination.
Star4mation
Super doodle Andrea :)
moochagoo
Very nice drawing. Graet humour.
Katraz
It's a wonderful doodle but I'm suspicious of what you were drinking at the time.
MrsRatbag
I think it's wonderful; there's something about it that I find quite appealing. I understand about the shiny card, though; I hate when that happens!
Mark-David-Rogers
Nice work Andrea, you should do more of this, I love the colours used here and the overall composition is a joy to explore. There are surreal aspects to this.
blondeblurr
I have loved all your doodles in the past, they are just so energizing, funny, wicked and always put a different spin on current situations, e.g. V-Day ... and they make me always look and explore for more details - so, DON'T ever stop! ;P BB
goodoleboy
You have doodled your way into never-never-land with this wild and wooly exercise of bright colors and design, A.
helanker
OHHH Andrea! It is gorgeous. How wonderful to see your great creativity. Thank you for sharing this :-))))))))) BTW! I just love the feet of the middle one, LOL!
angora
looooooooove it!! (but keep staring at the birdies -only-, forgive me? looking fab!!)
Celart
Lovely artwork
pat40
Wonderful work
giulband
wonderful image !!
illkirch
Like it
danapommet
An excellent Valentine doodle and very colorful. The 'heart' does make a difference!
three_grrr
I love both the heart and heartless versions of this .. your doodles are always superb, catch a character so clearly, and are so much fun!
dakotabluemoon
I like it i think it's a great piece after all art is created from our mind and should always be displayed great work on it.
anahata.c
First off, I know I say it alot, but I truly do look at everything when I"m gone, and I can't tell you the number of times I nearly drop everything and to come here and comment when seeing another of your uploads. I don't only because I get so wound up in it, it takes 10 or 15 minutes for just one image sometimes, and I can't come back to my offline activities very well after that. I won't be able to screw myself back to the things I have to do, outside of art, in other words. It's just been one of those times in my life, just one of those times. But, as most of my artist friends here know, this is one of the handful of places where I feel I'm home, this gallery. And it's so good to comment here, once again. I'll do it in a few sessions today. But I had to start with this. Re your dissatisfaction with this---you have the right, with your art. (God knows I'm that way with my work, and I can't draw like this). But the artists who've drawn and painted, and grappled with imagination, all love this piece (I read the comments). I flipped when I saw it. I realize now that your drawing is related to your photo-manipulations---in your scalpel-fine sense of line, of breaking down shapes into multiple inner shapes (that 'isobar' treatment you sometimes use, and so expressively), of high sensitivity to edges, and so on: I can now see how you use those features as well, in your drawings. Your line here is sharp as a tack, your 'outline' of creatures is both analytic and very funny (caricature and portraiture, both), your sense of the organic and organic 'profusion'---witness the central bird's tail or that flow of organic 'ooze' between the two birds, like a gigantic mushroom field coming out of the bird's beak or some primal caviar oozing down, that's what I mean by 'organic profusion'---your primal shapes snooping around, those precise and wonderfully silly human feet---we've seen those feet a number of times, in your drawings---your precise line work underneat the birds (for shading but also adding intense rhythm), the precision of the high grasses on the right---with faces!---and of the leaves on the right and left, your melting hues and watercolor-like spills in both sky and ground, done in bloomed pastels to balance the precision of your line work, and even that crawly fungus-mold-snake-lagoon-creature oozing its way across the bottom---something straight out of your imagination, and it wholly belongs-------these are all trademarks of your terrific imagination, and how you realize them with line, form, hue and sly and wonderful humor. Even if you didn't like the overall mesh (or the struggle between medium and ground), it's, for us, a cornucopia of delights straight out of your intuition, and it's done with a mix of precision and lushness, and it's terrific. It's sooooooo good to see your drawing and painting again. I know you have lots more on flickr, and I have to get there more often. But it's a little garden from you, a little carnival. Which is why, when this went up I wrote helle and ana right away, though they'd seen it; and you'd made my day. I have to stop to eat breakfast; but I had to begin with this piece first; and, as a valentine's piece, it's about wild crazy love---and that's the best kind. I love it. Whoosh.
Rhanagaz
Great colourful doddle, Andrea!! Love the version with a Heart most!! Excellent piece of art!!
jmb007
jolie