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 (20)
pat40
So Brilliant
rangeriderrichard
Very nice work!
rangeriderrichard
I stared at the picture for awhile... was that rude? ;)
helanker
AAAHAHAHAAAA! Andrea. I love it! I love it! It made my day. :-D Thank you. More please !!
Faemike55
it appears that they are staring down on someone who has fainted and fallen to the floor Great work
jendellas
I love these doodles, great expressions!!!
kgb224
Outstanding work Andrea. God bless.
Juliette.Gribnau
delightful !!!!
bebopdlx
WOW
jayfar
It's hard to know where to look when you have a dozen eyes looking at you !! Great doodle.
miwi
Funny one,excellent work,like it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JaneEden
Wow I love these characters, how clever of you Andrea. hugs Jane xx
wysiwig
You already know how I feel about your doodles. I would love to see Andrea's Animated World. As for being rude, it depends on what you are staring at. I mean, Kim Kardashian's arse is a true natural wonder. I believe it has its own gravitational field. Thanks for the link to the collected works.
giulband
Wonderful illustration I like it very much !!!
Adobe_One_Kenobi
Hehe! the little one struggling to be seen is delightful :)
Glendaw
LOL awesome characters and expressions.
MrsRatbag
Superb!
alanwilliams
i love you drawings Andrea, are they caricatures of real people
tommorules
"Fineliner, Aquatone, pencil crayons." These are concepts i used to understand (but never conquered). I went to extra Saturday classes as a teenager but still never got anywhere.... I miss those days...
danapommet
A great group doodle!
anahata.c
boy was I glad you gave us the link to the flickr collection: It's masterful, Andrea. Like Saul Steinberg, you combine wonderful insight into human form/expression with sharp humor. I did a few sketches of these faces, to see if I could get some of your essences. Your characteristic 3-pronged noses, those sculptural facial lines, the pronounced intense eyes---which are, all the same, cartoonish in their quick lines and intense coagulations for the irises---your quick and expressive hair lines, each one different (witness this bunch), the often long buddha-like earlobes (though I doubt these earlobes are long from sitting in meditation for several years---under a boddhi tree!). Your coloring has produced pronounced textures, incl grain, which I really like. And you have a rainbow effect behind them. You get lots of variety in many of your group portraits; and yet in some you have unanimity. (You have one of people in church ((if I recall)), on flickr; and they all seem 'of a group', all equally burdened. The monotones there are terrific too.) I'm only back for a couple of images right now, but while there are lots of photos crying out to me, I had to comment on one of your drawings. Love the array of humanity here. They pop into the frame as if they just sprouted out of the ground. And the left-most woman has an adam's apple like a lightning bolt. Love this piece!