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!Â
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! Â
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 (21)
jayfar
This is a super doodle Andrea and now that you have said you have a jumper that you don't want you will get some offers especially if you post it !!
Mark-David-Rogers
Love it!... nice and experimental, this is often the best kind of way to work, you never know where it's going to lead you even if you have an outline of an idea, I'm attempting to develop better fluids in Painter x3 and I remember the ink and straw technique, it can be very interesting.. the element of chance rather like other techniques such as decalcomania and frottage techniques often used my the likes of Max Ernst and Oscar Dominguez. This is what it's all about.
Adobe_One_Kenobi
Excellent doodling.
Jay-el-Jay
A well done spontaneous design.
kgb224
Amazing work Andrea. God bless.
wysiwig
Absolutely superb. Wildly colorful and creative. I don't know what it is but it has a passenger. Or is that a prisoner?
jendellas
I love the doodles, they are fun!!
SunriseGirl
Wonderful doodles :)
auntietk
How fun! Close inspection reveals so many faces I can hardly keep count. I particularly like the snakes, and the little furry creature with whiskers. :) Delightful!
emmecielle
Excellent doodle! Happy Birthday to Mark! :)
pat40
Very good Andrea
anaber
oh-oh-oh!!! much to see...made me think in the labyrinths of the brain...i truly love this, Andrea. And the original is a wonder also.. I am sure that Mark will love this a lot! I think you worked a lot in winter,lol..i also tried to knit..but i never finished and i begun again and again:))!!! i believe that in my case , i have a real ''disorder'' hahahah
Faemike55
cool and interesting art
goodoleboy
So, that's how a little bedbug looks under an electron microscope! Most awesome in arrangement and content, A. A tiny bit of a stained glass effect in this. And, a most whimsical concept prepared for the birthday of our Mark, master and tinkerer of strange concepts himself.
danapommet
It looks like a lab experiment that has gone wrong. Very colorful and I found the upside down mouse type creature but not sure what it really is! It could also be an artist conception of what my heart looks like after all the procedures that it has been through!!!!! :)
jocko500
this is cool
MrsRatbag
I love this! Well done, Andrea!!
anahata.c
I love the comments here---and I'll accept "master and tinkerer of strange concepts" (Harry): That will do just fine!!! And you and tara always find faces in things, and I can only find 2!!! (I found the furry animal, who I think is a mouse.) Ana saw labyrinths of the brain, which is very likely. And there were others. But I KNOW what it is: It's an ameba that tried on a new outfit, but hadn't lost enough weight so it struggled, tore the outfit to freakin' bits, and now it's caught inside and can't get out. Annnnd---being an ameba---it doesn't have a iPhone to call anyone, because amebas are too damned small to own iPhones, and besides she doesn't like Apple. (That's really what it is. You can turn in your papers by noon...) And the "prisoner," lol? He's a guy who got caught inside the ameba, and is really angry because he's 8 billion times LARGER than an ameba, and he wants to get back to normal size in the worst way. (And btw, he might wanna do something about his hair: There are gels for that condition. I'll send a URL...) Andrea, this is terrific. You don't know how good you are at these things, it's just delightful. And I love BOTH versions, the flickr one is smoother, more waterolor-y/ink-y. And the postworked version has all these isobars and agitation lines, which spill out of their boundaries. And I'm a big fan of blown-ink, it has a feel all its own. (Someone's gonna find something vulgar in what I just wrote, but it wasn't my intention!) It's a wonderful messy fun and organic thing; and putting against white was perfect---it really does look like a lab slide that way. Love it. Thank you so much for dedicating this to me, I'm one of your biggest fans, and it's very special to have this from you. Just terrific! I hope you do more like it, now that your mohair jumpers are done. And as for "Denouement Deficiency Disorder," I got closetfuls of unfinished work. Maybe I'll photograph them just to make people weep. If this is a result of yours, I hope you have the disorder all your life. Wonderful.
dochtersions
Ha, I love this, Andrea, it's such lively, and full of surprises, the colors are amazing, and all the details such clear to admire. Maybe you can make doodles, while watching the murder series, I'm sure it will be a lot red colors in it, huh? Thanks again for your lovely, very fine and warm sweaters, Andrea!!
moochagoo
Excellent technique and funny drawing
three_grrr
There is nothing better then a lovely hand-knitted warm sweater given to someone! If I lived near you I'd supply you with yarn and you could knit to your heart's content! Sadly, I'm out here in teh colonies .. grins .. Another delightful doodle .. and yes I see the obvious person with the wondrous hairdo, and what I think is a cat .. and did you see the cat's body just above and to the right as it should be? But it's upside down and has it's head twisted right side up. Now how did it do that? It must be a game of hide and seek .. he's hiding from the cat, and the cat is to find him in order to get the delicious fishy treat. Or mabye he's trying to escape the cat, he looks a bit miserable, perhaps he's allergic to the cat. I just love all the textures that postwork often brings out .. and the strange maze like corridors .. and rooms and oh it's a wonderful thing!