Here are some of the designs I have recently completed! You can find many different products featuring the following designs in my Redbubble and Society6 stores:

Hello there!

I just realised I have been so busy that I have not updated the blog for a little while. Even though I have been updating social media, streaming, posting videos to Youtube and updating my Patreon - I don't want to neglect my blog in the process! Here's what I've been up to these last few weeks:

Update on Victorian Animals - The End is in Sight!

I have just one canvas left now that only has underpainting, and one final drawing to transfer to canvas.

Recently I have been working on the following paintings:

Mr Weka

Mr Binturong

Mr Greyhound

Mrs Greyhound

For progress updates after every Twitch stream please check my Instagram page, or if you would like to chat please visit the SquibbleDesign Discord server!

I now stream four days a week at twitch.tv/squibbledesign

• Monday 3pm NZST
• Tuesday 12.30pm NZST
• Thursday 12.30pm NZST
• Friday 8.30am NZST

If you are free pop along and say hi!

Shop Update:

Back in Stock - Gummy Bear Pins

New Products - Sparkle Glow Hearts

Coming Soon - Hand-cut vinyl stickers with original watercolour designs!

Vlog for March

Here is the Vlog for March, if you would like to stay updated and see more of my adventures and art videos, please subscribe at: https://www.youtube.com/user/thesquibble

The vlog for January/February is also available, and I recently uplaoded a time lapse video of my process for learning to paint flames!

Patreon

Last but not least, I want to say a big thank you to my patrons on Patreon! Your support is making a real difference to my art practice and is allowing me to improve my skills and designs!

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Hello everyone, this is a little bit late as I was sick last week, but better late than never! I hope you have had a happy and relaxing holiday break.

I managed to get quite a bit done before the holidays including my first two commissions! If you would like to see the first commission please see last week’s blog post. I also did a 'special 'ish days of Christmas series on my Twitch channel, taking suggestions on what to draw from viewers using the cheapest art supplies I could find from the Warehouse. I will be uploading a few time lapse videos of those streams to my YouTube channel. I also really liked some of the artworks I produced in those streams enough to want to reproduce them with nicer art supplies!

Previously I posted about my Gamewisp channel, unfortunately Gamewisp shut down unexpectedly so I have now moved to Patreon. I have just introduced a $1 tier which gives patrons access to behind the scenes quick posts, snapshots and brief updates on projects. If you would like to support my art on Patreon please visit my page to check out the available tiers!

After Christmas we managed to spend some time with family and also went to Te Papa to see the Terracotta Warriors exhibition and went on a quick visit to Zealandia.

I am doing more work over on my Youtube channel this year, and have just started updating the graphics for each Vlog. I had some fun creating hand-written titles, and have started adding the end cards to each video. I have also just opened up comments, which is a big step for me!

Here is the first of the new-style vlogs, with voiceover! This is also a big step for me, but I am now very used to chatting to people on my Twitch channel so am trialing the addition of voiceovers to my YouTube videos.

Thanks to everyone for your support in 2018, it was a fantastic feeling to successfully complete and deliver my first two oil painting commissions. I am currently working my my Victorian animal series for an upcoming exhibition so please follow on Twitter for updates, and Instagram and Twitch for progress photos and live streams of my artwork! 2019 here I come!

This portrait of ‘Shere khan’ was the second oil painting comission I completed in December. The client wanted a Christmas present for their mother, and requested a portrait of her bengal cat. The client also loved my Victorian animal series and asked for the cat to be dressed in a Victorian outfit. I studied photos and video that the client provided in order to get an idea of Shere Khan’s personality, and suggested an explorer theme for the painting.

I also added native New Zealand plants and flowers in a forest setting so Shere Khan could be an early pioneer explorer in the New Zealand bush. This fitted with the explorer theme, and worked really well because the client’s mother loves native New Zealand plants and flowers!

The oil painting process for this A4 sized piece took about a month and a half to complete including preparation and varnishing.

Commissions are now open for 2019, for more information and to submit a request please visit the sign up form: https://squibble.wufoo.com/forms/commissions

Two sizes are available:

• A4 ($250 NZD + shipping)
• A3 ($500 NZD + shipping)

For commissions that will be Christmas presents - this year the cut-off date will be September first, 2019. This will allow a good amount of time for the oil paint to cure and be varnished before being wrapped and packaged for shipping.

Thank you very much to the client for the opportunity to work on this painting, it really pushed me to improve my background painting skills and I enjoyed adding all the little botanical details!

I opened oil painting commissions towards the end of 2018 and completed two pet portraits at the end of December.

The first commission to be completed was a portrait of ‘Mac’. The client requested that the cat be wearing a witch’s hat and holding a wand in the painting. As the client’s cat was named for Professor MacGonagall in Harry Potter, the wand design is based on the character’s wand.

The oil painting process for this A4 sized piece took about a month and a half to complete including preparation and varnishing.

Commissions Now Open!

Commissions are now open for 2019, for more information and to submit a request please visit the sign up form: https://squibble.wufoo.com/forms/commissions

Two sizes are available:

• A4 ($250 NZD + shipping)
• A3 ($500 NZD + shipping)

For commissions that will be Christmas presents - this year the cut-off date will be September first, 2019. This will allow a good amount of time for the oil paint to cure and be varnished before being wrapped and packaged for shipping.

Thank you very much to the client who commissioned this piece - it was a fantastic experience.