<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970</id><updated>2011-12-01T18:56:10.627-08:00</updated><category term='sculpture'/><category term='harp'/><category term='acrylic'/><category term='tcd'/><category term='drawing'/><category term='Daryl Hannah'/><category term='asian'/><category term='maquette'/><category term='sketches'/><category term='self-portrait'/><category term='short'/><category term='Troubled'/><category term='music'/><category term='poster'/><category term='cartoons'/><category term='art'/><category term='Splash'/><category term='Dublin Sketchers'/><category term='pastels'/><category term='artist'/><category term='character design'/><category term='bouldermedia'/><category term='portraits'/><category term='pencil sketch'/><category term='Mermaid'/><category term='birthdays'/><category term='knitting'/><category term='people'/><category term='Chinchillas BG'/><category term='Colm O&apos;Meachair'/><category term='shaun tan'/><category term='fantasy'/><category term='trinity'/><category term='animation'/><category term='Short Film'/><category term='concept'/><category term='test animation'/><category term='illustration'/><category term='RTS'/><category term='film'/><category term='classical'/><category term='life-drawing'/><category term='mother'/><category term='cards'/><category term='witch'/><category term='painting'/><title type='text'>Tim Dowling</title><subtitle type='html'>Animation Art Sculpture Illustration</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>67</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-145323087993420582</id><published>2011-12-01T18:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-01T18:56:10.636-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Huggitos to ALL!!!</title><content type='html'>Just wanna do a little mention of my new endeavour ....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check out &lt;a href="http://huggitos.com"&gt;huggitos.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look for us on Facebook too!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-145323087993420582?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/145323087993420582'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/145323087993420582'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2011/12/huggitos-to-all.html' title='Huggitos to ALL!!!'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-9028393648876137557</id><published>2011-09-03T10:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-03T10:51:45.907-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Space Invader Gloves</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8PTagcfeqgw/TmJo63J6AhI/AAAAAAAAASA/9awFNrlCf0g/s1600/hugs%2B005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; 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margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 231px; height: 173px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k832agF9O4o/TV28kHuDpJI/AAAAAAAAARU/0lZoYZlxtL8/s320/mrmole.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574819242488079506" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-8792761630138721568?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/8792761630138721568'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/8792761630138721568'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2011/02/moley-mole.html' title='Moley Mole'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k832agF9O4o/TV28kHuDpJI/AAAAAAAAARU/0lZoYZlxtL8/s72-c/mrmole.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-4563533638278200356</id><published>2011-02-07T08:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-07T09:05:42.013-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Gumball!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TVAjko6162I/AAAAAAAAARM/n-YpfhxeUFU/s1600/Gumball.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TVAjko6162I/AAAAAAAAARM/n-YpfhxeUFU/s320/Gumball.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5570991851423787874" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gumball project is finally finished....actually it finished up a short while ago, just realised I never blogged about it.  Hope it does well!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-4563533638278200356?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/4563533638278200356'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/4563533638278200356'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2011/02/gumball.html' title='Gumball!!!'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TVAjko6162I/AAAAAAAAARM/n-YpfhxeUFU/s72-c/Gumball.png' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-4904260388984340717</id><published>2011-02-01T13:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-01T13:40:38.668-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Gloves.....that fit!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TUh9x2X6qBI/AAAAAAAAARA/ROQIceg5lb0/s1600/gloves.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 271px; height: 259px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TUh9x2X6qBI/AAAAAAAAARA/ROQIceg5lb0/s320/gloves.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568839234606508050" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-4904260388984340717?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/4904260388984340717'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/4904260388984340717'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2011/02/glovesthat-fit.html' title='Gloves.....that fit!!'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TUh9x2X6qBI/AAAAAAAAARA/ROQIceg5lb0/s72-c/gloves.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-512071648391686910</id><published>2011-01-26T09:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-26T09:20:48.454-08:00</updated><title type='text'>CABARET.....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TUBXqyQiDEI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/P7w5p489N6M/s1600/liza03.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 142px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TUBXqyQiDEI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/P7w5p489N6M/s320/liza03.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566545531987168322" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so far I'm doing well on the ol' resolutions :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-512071648391686910?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/512071648391686910'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/512071648391686910'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2011/01/cabaret.html' title='CABARET.....'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TUBXqyQiDEI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/P7w5p489N6M/s72-c/liza03.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-7371107829127800816</id><published>2011-01-24T16:06:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-24T16:08:43.657-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Knitted Creations....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TT4UMx7rzsI/AAAAAAAAAQw/15EWyR96HV4/s1600/scarf002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 193px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TT4UMx7rzsI/AAAAAAAAAQw/15EWyR96HV4/s320/scarf002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5565908399271169730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TT4UFL8StjI/AAAAAAAAAQo/GZfKUa5wjIE/s1600/scarf001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 148px; height: 229px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TT4UFL8StjI/AAAAAAAAAQo/GZfKUa5wjIE/s320/scarf001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5565908268814087730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     This Wonderful Scarf Pattern is by Stephen West - this was also my first time following a pattern so I tried it in some cheaper yarn, next project coming soon :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-7371107829127800816?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/7371107829127800816'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/7371107829127800816'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2011/01/knitted-creations_24.html' title='Knitted Creations....'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TT4UMx7rzsI/AAAAAAAAAQw/15EWyR96HV4/s72-c/scarf002.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-4139390415152688838</id><published>2011-01-13T05:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-13T06:04:53.765-08:00</updated><title type='text'>resolutions.....first attempt!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TS8Gb_gEduI/AAAAAAAAAQg/cHqNDA82raQ/s1600/timportrait.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 157px; height: 259px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TS8Gb_gEduI/AAAAAAAAAQg/cHqNDA82raQ/s320/timportrait.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561671142798030562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TS8GAeaofQI/AAAAAAAAAQY/YDA9cEr0K8s/s1600/sketch%2Bcopy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 248px; height: 191px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TS8GAeaofQI/AAAAAAAAAQY/YDA9cEr0K8s/s320/sketch%2Bcopy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561670670060387586" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-4139390415152688838?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/4139390415152688838'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/4139390415152688838'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2011/01/resolutionsfirst-attempt.html' title='resolutions.....first attempt!'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TS8Gb_gEduI/AAAAAAAAAQg/cHqNDA82raQ/s72-c/timportrait.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-651831257899734907</id><published>2011-01-04T16:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-04T16:28:32.830-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Knitted Creations....</title><content type='html'>First of all, Happy New Year to Everyone!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;New Year's Resolution :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Update this blog often.....&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;weekly&lt;/span&gt;!!&lt;br /&gt;Even if it's a doodle..... I promise :)&lt;br /&gt;And to start off with some knitted hats! I really love how they've turned out!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TSO5QQdCsqI/AAAAAAAAAQI/Z4PvrZ-TyTI/s1600/Picture%2B134.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 169px; height: 226px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TSO5QQdCsqI/AAAAAAAAAQI/Z4PvrZ-TyTI/s320/Picture%2B134.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558490054051148450" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TSO5z3bJC4I/AAAAAAAAAQQ/qptLyYuHT_g/s1600/snow.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 170px; height: 261px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TSO5z3bJC4I/AAAAAAAAAQQ/qptLyYuHT_g/s320/snow.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558490665807580034" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-651831257899734907?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/651831257899734907'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/651831257899734907'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2011/01/knitted-creations.html' title='Knitted Creations....'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TSO5QQdCsqI/AAAAAAAAAQI/Z4PvrZ-TyTI/s72-c/Picture%2B134.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-6863045676655454482</id><published>2010-07-30T09:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-30T09:37:48.850-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TFL93Gtrx_I/AAAAAAAAAPw/QykKLf1zXZ0/s1600/ondine.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 216px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TFL93Gtrx_I/AAAAAAAAAPw/QykKLf1zXZ0/s320/ondine.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499737218109655026" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A water colour mermaid I did a few weeks ago. I really enjoyed working in this medium. More to come soon!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TFL9vvWo4FI/AAAAAAAAAPo/86nHCjCeVFk/s1600/newref004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 226px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TFL9vvWo4FI/AAAAAAAAAPo/86nHCjCeVFk/s320/newref004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499737091579895890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TFL9hkWBbGI/AAAAAAAAAPg/CjW9A9Xukvc/s1600/newref003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 226px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TFL9hkWBbGI/AAAAAAAAAPg/CjW9A9Xukvc/s320/newref003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499736848106351714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TFL9DFmHsVI/AAAAAAAAAPY/GmlfugjC6r4/s1600/newref002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 226px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TFL9DFmHsVI/AAAAAAAAAPY/GmlfugjC6r4/s320/newref002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499736324456296786" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TFL8bLsr2zI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/bac7zW7GGNM/s1600/newref001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 226px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TFL8bLsr2zI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/bac7zW7GGNM/s320/newref001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499735638899678002" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...and finally some concept work I did for a proposal for the filmboard. It was a pretty intense experience cause I had to get storyboards, animatic, concept, scripts done in a short period but all over a great learning process although the project was not funded. I might try again for it next year.&lt;br /&gt;It would be pretty cool to work on my own ideas for a change (and being funded for them :) )&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-6863045676655454482?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/6863045676655454482'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/6863045676655454482'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2010/07/water-colour-mermaid-i-did-few-weeks.html' title=''/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/TFL93Gtrx_I/AAAAAAAAAPw/QykKLf1zXZ0/s72-c/ondine.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-4048690109717755926</id><published>2010-04-13T05:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-13T05:49:09.979-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Some Concepts.....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/S8Rn0U9M7EI/AAAAAAAAAPI/aGA9Sfk1eI4/s1600/elf001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 318px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/S8Rn0U9M7EI/AAAAAAAAAPI/aGA9Sfk1eI4/s320/elf001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459602796956150850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/S8RnbGdJlGI/AAAAAAAAAPA/Im5K28zr520/s1600/elf002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 170px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/S8RnbGdJlGI/AAAAAAAAAPA/Im5K28zr520/s320/elf002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459602363566888034" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/S8RmsQQ9AHI/AAAAAAAAAOo/OVWhNjLboj8/s1600/elf003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 181px; height: 137px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/S8RmsQQ9AHI/AAAAAAAAAOo/OVWhNjLboj8/s320/elf003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459601558746234994" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/S8Rm1vqQUPI/AAAAAAAAAOw/9oR64bM-uaI/s1600/tree.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 207px; height: 282px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/S8Rm1vqQUPI/AAAAAAAAAOw/9oR64bM-uaI/s320/tree.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459601721792680178" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/S8Rm8FiKmYI/AAAAAAAAAO4/-3OzREF0ybs/s1600/treees.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 92px; height: 350px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/S8Rm8FiKmYI/AAAAAAAAAO4/-3OzREF0ybs/s320/treees.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459601830743546242" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/S8RmsQQ9AHI/AAAAAAAAAOo/OVWhNjLboj8/s1600/elf003.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-4048690109717755926?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/4048690109717755926'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/4048690109717755926'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2010/04/blog-post.html' title='Some Concepts.....'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/S8Rn0U9M7EI/AAAAAAAAAPI/aGA9Sfk1eI4/s72-c/elf001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-6282073798435301594</id><published>2010-03-08T16:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-09T00:02:28.886-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A Hat and a Scarf!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/S5Wik3g1FTI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/LmdJXa3dOCk/s1600-h/hat+and+scarf.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 298px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/S5Wik3g1FTI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/LmdJXa3dOCk/s320/hat+and+scarf.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446438078635119922" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Been a knit-aholic lately...should really get back to drawing!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-6282073798435301594?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/6282073798435301594/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=6282073798435301594&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/6282073798435301594'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/6282073798435301594'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2010/03/hat-and-scarf.html' title='A Hat and a Scarf!'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/S5Wik3g1FTI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/LmdJXa3dOCk/s72-c/hat+and+scarf.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-6623062337363583359</id><published>2010-01-10T14:09:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-10T14:12:31.946-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Alma</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="400" height="225"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4749536&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=0&amp;amp;show_byline=0&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4749536&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=0&amp;amp;show_byline=0&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/4749536"&gt;Alma&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/alma"&gt;Rodrigo Blaas&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com"&gt;Vimeo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-6623062337363583359?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/6623062337363583359/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=6623062337363583359&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/6623062337363583359'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/6623062337363583359'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2010/01/alma.html' title='Alma'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-5613084901935822050</id><published>2010-01-03T10:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-03T10:12:21.665-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Zippadee do dah...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/S0DdJj2OxlI/AAAAAAAAAOA/HOC9GFyyoAI/s1600-h/unicycle2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 312px; height: 411px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/S0DdJj2OxlI/AAAAAAAAAOA/HOC9GFyyoAI/s320/unicycle2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422577107665339986" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.....another uni-cyclist but mainly just messing around with my new gouache paints :-)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-5613084901935822050?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/5613084901935822050/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=5613084901935822050&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/5613084901935822050'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/5613084901935822050'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2010/01/zippadee-do-dah.html' title='Zippadee do dah...'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/S0DdJj2OxlI/AAAAAAAAAOA/HOC9GFyyoAI/s72-c/unicycle2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-312965542568327959</id><published>2010-01-01T10:38:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-01T10:56:12.872-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy New.......POST!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Happy New Year!!  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Remember life is short, break the rules,forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that made you smile :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/Sz5CpNPva_I/AAAAAAAAAN4/mqXqtQ8y1lc/s1600-h/catz.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 263px; height: 227px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/Sz5CpNPva_I/AAAAAAAAAN4/mqXqtQ8y1lc/s320/catz.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421844277098408946" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A T-shirt I had printed up for my sweetheart &lt;3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/Sz5CAdrbBoI/AAAAAAAAANw/E318o2vcoao/s1600-h/unicycle.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 285px; height: 394px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/Sz5CAdrbBoI/AAAAAAAAANw/E318o2vcoao/s320/unicycle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421843577134843522" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; .....and a cool uni-cyclist I saw whisking through the streets of Dublin !&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-312965542568327959?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/312965542568327959/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=312965542568327959&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/312965542568327959'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/312965542568327959'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2010/01/happy-newpost.html' title='Happy New.......POST!'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/Sz5CpNPva_I/AAAAAAAAAN4/mqXqtQ8y1lc/s72-c/catz.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-4304873623742023203</id><published>2009-12-21T01:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-22T03:35:47.391-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Validation</title><content type='html'>Watched this the other day, it made me cry.....just wanted to share it with you&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Cbk980jV7Ao&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Cbk980jV7Ao&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-4304873623742023203?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/4304873623742023203/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=4304873623742023203&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/4304873623742023203'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/4304873623742023203'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2009/12/validation.html' title='Validation'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-6439675675518034769</id><published>2009-12-02T05:27:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-02T05:31:48.056-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='painting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='drawing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sketches'/><title type='text'>Sketchbook</title><content type='html'>Haven't posted anything in a while, so here's some stuff from my sketchbook :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SxZrrCiaQhI/AAAAAAAAANA/rNWwlShOUPY/s1600-h/bos_elfje.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 203px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SxZrrCiaQhI/AAAAAAAAANA/rNWwlShOUPY/s320/bos_elfje.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410630389491974674" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SxZrdwbt8UI/AAAAAAAAAM4/QDalKaDXKqw/s1600-h/girls.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 108px; height: 186px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SxZrdwbt8UI/AAAAAAAAAM4/QDalKaDXKqw/s320/girls.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410630161293766978" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SxZrXXIjtdI/AAAAAAAAAMw/UozufRLkqIc/s1600-h/howth_sketch.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 242px; height: 160px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SxZrXXIjtdI/AAAAAAAAAMw/UozufRLkqIc/s320/howth_sketch.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410630051423303122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-6439675675518034769?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/6439675675518034769/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=6439675675518034769&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/6439675675518034769'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/6439675675518034769'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2009/12/sketchbook.html' title='Sketchbook'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SxZrrCiaQhI/AAAAAAAAANA/rNWwlShOUPY/s72-c/bos_elfje.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-9063991344065739658</id><published>2009-09-16T14:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-16T14:23:42.442-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='animation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Troubled'/><title type='text'>Troubled Poster</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SrFWmw3VkuI/AAAAAAAAAMk/JVK3S3W-e-I/s1600-h/TROUBLE_POSTER.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 226px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SrFWmw3VkuI/AAAAAAAAAMk/JVK3S3W-e-I/s320/TROUBLE_POSTER.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382178253636473570" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; I had to make up a poster for "Troubled" to enter it into some film festivals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks again to everyone to help me out! You know who you are!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-9063991344065739658?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/9063991344065739658/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=9063991344065739658&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/9063991344065739658'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/9063991344065739658'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2009/09/troubled-poster.html' title='Troubled Poster'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SrFWmw3VkuI/AAAAAAAAAMk/JVK3S3W-e-I/s72-c/TROUBLE_POSTER.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-8235327857394681167</id><published>2009-09-15T08:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-15T08:41:52.640-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='character design'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='drawing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>Illustrated Little Ladies</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/Sq-1OwZEa2I/AAAAAAAAAMc/La1TaPcKhYo/s1600-h/EKINGDOM.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 156px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/Sq-1OwZEa2I/AAAAAAAAAMc/La1TaPcKhYo/s320/EKINGDOM.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5381719344843877218" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Haven't had much time lately so here's some&lt;br /&gt; character designs for a illustration project that didn't take off.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-8235327857394681167?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/8235327857394681167/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=8235327857394681167&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/8235327857394681167'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/8235327857394681167'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2009/09/illustrated-little-ladies.html' title='Illustrated Little Ladies'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/Sq-1OwZEa2I/AAAAAAAAAMc/La1TaPcKhYo/s72-c/EKINGDOM.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-9185108505268936119</id><published>2009-08-22T07:19:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-22T13:26:33.558-07:00</updated><title type='text'>St. Jerome</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SpBUJEWI_pI/AAAAAAAAAMU/u2Y24oIjQMo/s1600-h/Stjerom_final.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SpBUJEWI_pI/AAAAAAAAAMU/u2Y24oIjQMo/s320/Stjerom_final.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372886870215163538" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SpAAklT6RwI/AAAAAAAAAME/uxIdYLQAEHI/s1600-h/Stjerom_mid.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 105px; height: 155px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SpAAklT6RwI/AAAAAAAAAME/uxIdYLQAEHI/s320/Stjerom_mid.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372794983943915266" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/So__-8Z41BI/AAAAAAAAAL8/-lKzkEuR9Gw/s1600-h/Stjerom_shapes.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 106px; height: 66px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/So__-8Z41BI/AAAAAAAAAL8/-lKzkEuR9Gw/s320/Stjerom_shapes.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372794337307972626" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/So__SaWQ7TI/AAAAAAAAAL0/yJzpU7Ob2ZY/s1600-h/Stjerom_start.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 66px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/So__SaWQ7TI/AAAAAAAAAL0/yJzpU7Ob2ZY/s320/Stjerom_start.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372793572251725106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's my first academic drawing of Bernini's bust of St. Jerome. I would have never approached drawing like this before, it was a good exercise and it really helps you to focus on shapes and shadows.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-9185108505268936119?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/9185108505268936119/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=9185108505268936119&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/9185108505268936119'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/9185108505268936119'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2009/08/st-jerome.html' title='St. Jerome'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SpBUJEWI_pI/AAAAAAAAAMU/u2Y24oIjQMo/s72-c/Stjerom_final.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-1600848692845432923</id><published>2009-08-22T06:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-22T07:07:55.518-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Life-Painting</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/So_4XIMKUaI/AAAAAAAAALc/8nuVta5KxEI/s1600-h/Elena05.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 215px; height: 295px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/So_4XIMKUaI/AAAAAAAAALc/8nuVta5KxEI/s320/Elena05.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372785956695462306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Here are some life-painting in progress shots.  Still a long way to go but very enjoyable process. As you can see the beginning is a total mess but it somehow strung together eventually. I hope I'll be doing better portraits soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/So_19SgolxI/AAAAAAAAAK8/hy5pVHCJuQE/s1600-h/Elena01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 38px; height: 48px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/So_19SgolxI/AAAAAAAAAK8/hy5pVHCJuQE/s320/Elena01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372783313765832466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/So_2bV6K8zI/AAAAAAAAALE/K--wQD6RutQ/s1600-h/Elena02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 34px; height: 45px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/So_2bV6K8zI/AAAAAAAAALE/K--wQD6RutQ/s320/Elena02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372783830074323762" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/So_37Zd2HvI/AAAAAAAAALU/a0OdOKmP2gQ/s1600-h/Elena04.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 35px; height: 47px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/So_37Zd2HvI/AAAAAAAAALU/a0OdOKmP2gQ/s320/Elena04.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372785480296701682" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/So_3Op4-vyI/AAAAAAAAALM/_P91cdcRTUM/s1600-h/Elena03.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 32px; height: 44px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/So_3Op4-vyI/AAAAAAAAALM/_P91cdcRTUM/s320/Elena03.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372784711611367202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-1600848692845432923?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/1600848692845432923/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=1600848692845432923&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/1600848692845432923'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/1600848692845432923'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2009/08/life-painting.html' title='Life-Painting'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/So_4XIMKUaI/AAAAAAAAALc/8nuVta5KxEI/s72-c/Elena05.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-2563952974046123162</id><published>2009-08-22T06:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-22T06:38:54.075-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Life Drawing</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/So_zVRtdjKI/AAAAAAAAAK0/n8gD49zF_zo/s1600-h/life_drawing03.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/So_zVRtdjKI/AAAAAAAAAK0/n8gD49zF_zo/s320/life_drawing03.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372780427333176482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/So_x80a0XzI/AAAAAAAAAKs/GCDTabACcI0/s1600-h/life_drawing02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 179px; height: 123px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/So_x80a0XzI/AAAAAAAAAKs/GCDTabACcI0/s320/life_drawing02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372778907641863986" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/So_xMV6hK6I/AAAAAAAAAKk/z9UWdF9-WtY/s1600-h/life_drawing01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 173px; height: 126px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/So_xMV6hK6I/AAAAAAAAAKk/z9UWdF9-WtY/s320/life_drawing01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372778074819603362" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some Life-Drawing I did at &lt;a href="http://www.rossnaree.ie"&gt;Rossnaree&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Still need to loosen up a bit more but I think I understand something new again, so great!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-2563952974046123162?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/2563952974046123162/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=2563952974046123162&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/2563952974046123162'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/2563952974046123162'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2009/08/life-drawing_22.html' title='Life Drawing'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/So_zVRtdjKI/AAAAAAAAAK0/n8gD49zF_zo/s72-c/life_drawing03.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-4152502495943583624</id><published>2009-08-16T10:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-16T12:24:41.292-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='portraits'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='painting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='artist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='classical'/><title type='text'>Copying Courbet</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/Sog_6e3FMhI/AAAAAAAAAKM/jgrI28YO0Y8/s1600-h/courbet01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 241px; height: 303px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/Sog_6e3FMhI/AAAAAAAAAKM/jgrI28YO0Y8/s320/courbet01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370612829588369938" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SohEwnfzo4I/AAAAAAAAAKU/E13nlvDjMuA/s1600-h/courbet02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 172px; height: 103px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SohEwnfzo4I/AAAAAAAAAKU/E13nlvDjMuA/s320/courbet02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370618157666116482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SohTWxzx_sI/AAAAAAAAAKc/_vHFdcOIPDY/s1600-h/courbet03.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 176px; height: 103px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SohTWxzx_sI/AAAAAAAAAKc/_vHFdcOIPDY/s320/courbet03.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370634206432067266" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I decided I would go to a Classical Painting Course. It's based near Drogheda. The name of the school is called &lt;a href="http://www.rossnaree.ie/"&gt;Rossnaree&lt;/a&gt;. It's situated beside Newgrange. It's beautiful out there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The course is just brilliant. I always wondered how those Renaissance painters got such great life, composition and that dramatic lighting that you hardly see in any other paintings. You know that light just just makes you look great!&lt;br /&gt;I think Courbet is one of those painters who recognized that some kind of lighting can make you look great.(this is a self-portrait of the artist btw) I discovered a photo of him on the net somewhere.  He obviously used this technique to make himself look better than he truly is, I don't blame him :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the exercises in this course is to copy a painting from the great masters. The technique of painting is totally different to what I'm used to doing,  I'm not sure which is better. I stood in the darkest part of the room so I hardly had light and my colours became a bit muddled at one point. So that's what my copy looks like. Next week I'll work with a life-model and I am interested to hear his critism this time. His critism on my painting was : " I like your style of painting, close by it's a wreck - far away it makes sense,  Courbet would have made sure that it made sense both ways.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm tempted to go to the National Gallery now to set up an easel and copy a few more now, just to learn from them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another thing I learnt was using the limited palette. I'm still impressed by the colours you can mix with black, white, yellow and a tiny bit of red.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All the materials we used are just of great quality. &lt;a href="http://web.me.com/adammarkovic/studiosantospirito/Home.html"&gt;Adam Markovic&lt;/a&gt;  (the tutor) makes his own sun-thickened linseed oil which you can only buy from him. I'm lucky because that stuff is probably the best thing I've worked with so far.&lt;br /&gt;The paints we used are from that brand "Old Holland" - I bought a tube of blue there the other day nearly 50 Euro - not cheap!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Right, I won't carry on anymore. I'll have more to post next week. It's all been an interesting and inspiring weekend for me - also tiring.  Some days were about 11 hours long of drawing and painting.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-4152502495943583624?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/4152502495943583624/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=4152502495943583624&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/4152502495943583624'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/4152502495943583624'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2009/08/copying-courbet.html' title='Copying Courbet'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/Sog_6e3FMhI/AAAAAAAAAKM/jgrI28YO0Y8/s72-c/courbet01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-1094596268620989411</id><published>2009-08-07T15:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-08T15:46:02.645-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life-drawing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='people'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pencil sketch'/><title type='text'>Life Drawing</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/Snysgd9mwxI/AAAAAAAAAKE/8HUPxL91WNA/s1600-h/geraldine01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 368px; height: 318px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/Snysgd9mwxI/AAAAAAAAAKE/8HUPxL91WNA/s320/geraldine01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367354529717601042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-1094596268620989411?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/1094596268620989411/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=1094596268620989411&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/1094596268620989411'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/1094596268620989411'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2009/08/life-drawing.html' title='Life Drawing'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/Snysgd9mwxI/AAAAAAAAAKE/8HUPxL91WNA/s72-c/geraldine01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-356876850254337102</id><published>2009-08-03T09:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-18T18:58:31.235-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Knit-Wit</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SncQbBoPCBI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/gijUZZj9Kns/s1600-h/knitted_gloves.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 249px; height: 235px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SncQbBoPCBI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/gijUZZj9Kns/s320/knitted_gloves.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365775537514940434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-356876850254337102?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/356876850254337102/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=356876850254337102&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/356876850254337102'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/356876850254337102'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2009/08/knit-wit.html' title='Knit-Wit'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SncQbBoPCBI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/gijUZZj9Kns/s72-c/knitted_gloves.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-7408198963683846396</id><published>2009-07-29T16:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-18T19:00:04.500-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Painting and more painting....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SnDlBxr3a8I/AAAAAAAAAJs/dB4FrPz76RE/s1600-h/Vince_portrait001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 243px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SnDlBxr3a8I/AAAAAAAAAJs/dB4FrPz76RE/s320/Vince_portrait001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364038974878215106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-7408198963683846396?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/7408198963683846396/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=7408198963683846396&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/7408198963683846396'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/7408198963683846396'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2009/07/painting-and-more-painting.html' title='Painting and more painting....'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SnDlBxr3a8I/AAAAAAAAAJs/dB4FrPz76RE/s72-c/Vince_portrait001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-2205751212645662687</id><published>2009-07-21T14:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-21T14:37:58.836-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Paintings continued...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SmYxxDyHEHI/AAAAAAAAAJc/NDCQZ2H0jzQ/s1600-h/vince.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 227px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SmYxxDyHEHI/AAAAAAAAAJc/NDCQZ2H0jzQ/s320/vince.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361027125329989746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the second sitting for this portrait. I kinda like where it's going but it'll change obviously. I'm still learning and painting from life is so challenging but lotsa fun!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other portrait will come soon and after that I'll ask Volodya if he'll do a full body pose for me.....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-2205751212645662687?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/2205751212645662687/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=2205751212645662687&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/2205751212645662687'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/2205751212645662687'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2009/07/paintings-continued_21.html' title='Paintings continued...'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SmYxxDyHEHI/AAAAAAAAAJc/NDCQZ2H0jzQ/s72-c/vince.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-3527246922754291856</id><published>2009-07-17T17:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-17T18:09:00.366-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Paintings continued....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SmEeeQkJTWI/AAAAAAAAAJM/_-Fy9iTGCtc/s1600-h/volodya.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 243px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SmEeeQkJTWI/AAAAAAAAAJM/_-Fy9iTGCtc/s320/volodya.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359598536739081570" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Here's photo after another session painting Volodya, he's been away to many conferences and been too busy to sit for me.&lt;br /&gt;I might get him to sit for me tomorrow night again, so I'll have update YAY!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SmEfGgHiL5I/AAAAAAAAAJU/gwLIwP6TOMs/s1600-h/vince001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 234px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SmEfGgHiL5I/AAAAAAAAAJU/gwLIwP6TOMs/s320/vince001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359599228108812178" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vince offered to pose for me too, hopefully we'll have another session soon. He chose this serious pose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Would anyone else like to pose?  I'm asking everyone!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-3527246922754291856?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/3527246922754291856/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=3527246922754291856&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/3527246922754291856'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/3527246922754291856'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2009/07/paintings-continued.html' title='Paintings continued....'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SmEeeQkJTWI/AAAAAAAAAJM/_-Fy9iTGCtc/s72-c/volodya.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-8526484053533044948</id><published>2009-07-12T10:22:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-12T13:05:05.612-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dublin Sketchers'/><title type='text'>Dublin Sketchers....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SlpBTJNGdZI/AAAAAAAAAJE/GhmTKZWA7AY/s1600-h/dublinsketchers001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SlpBTJNGdZI/AAAAAAAAAJE/GhmTKZWA7AY/s320/dublinsketchers001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357666503854814610" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well....I arrived a little late but I made a sketch anyway. Just throwin' this one up on the blog so I can monitor my progress :-) The drawing was made in Temple Bar, near some construction site....I like the uglier parts of the city......&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-8526484053533044948?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/8526484053533044948/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=8526484053533044948&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/8526484053533044948'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/8526484053533044948'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2009/07/dublin-sketchers.html' title='Dublin Sketchers....'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SlpBTJNGdZI/AAAAAAAAAJE/GhmTKZWA7AY/s72-c/dublinsketchers001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-2501922591641427085</id><published>2009-07-09T21:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-09T21:49:41.771-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='test animation'/><title type='text'>It's been a while.....</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-f406067596e49fc" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" 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bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v5.nonxt6.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D0f406067596e49fc%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1331489984%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D64F9FB14714BD346FF5EEDFA42121F1F7A2049B9.53C7D375247F1A60E2E3D521C65D064127873223%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3Df406067596e49fc%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3D1tZGEsjVgUulstrQqYXIb0N36L4&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm working on some other stuff at the moment, but here's some test animation I did for my short "Troubled".&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-2501922591641427085?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='enclosure' type='video/mp4' href='http://www.blogger.com/video-play.mp4?contentId=f406067596e49fc&amp;type=video%2Fmp4' length='0'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/2501922591641427085/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=2501922591641427085&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/2501922591641427085'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/2501922591641427085'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2009/07/its-been-while.html' title='It&apos;s been a while.....'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-833078555561233224</id><published>2009-06-13T18:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-13T18:14:55.210-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Knitting! ! !</title><content type='html'>A few new knitted pieces, a beanie type hat, scarf and a pair of chunky finger-less gloves are a birthday prezzie for my friend Vince.&lt;br /&gt; He's 30 years old today!!! Finished just in time. I gave them to him last night and he liked them!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It took me a long while to get my head around to knit the gloves, they are so DIFFICULT to knit if you're not going to sew on the thumb but I invented something new for myself to make that seamless look!  A funny fact: the number of stitches I used for the scarf is 30 for the width. I don't know how many I used for the length...I just played by ear for that, also the gloves are a 30 stitch circle! I don't know, thought that might be funny....I forgot to tell him that though!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happy 30th Birthday Vince!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SjRNMofAFHI/AAAAAAAAAIk/56ZgjOMmoxE/s1600-h/Vince_knitting+stuff.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 192px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SjRNMofAFHI/AAAAAAAAAIk/56ZgjOMmoxE/s320/Vince_knitting+stuff.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346983537016837234" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-833078555561233224?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/833078555561233224/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=833078555561233224&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/833078555561233224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/833078555561233224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2009/06/knitting.html' title='Knitting! ! !'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SjRNMofAFHI/AAAAAAAAAIk/56ZgjOMmoxE/s72-c/Vince_knitting+stuff.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-6263614509405927236</id><published>2009-06-03T03:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-04T18:39:24.124-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shaun tan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sketches'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>Shaun Tan</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SiZVRb-7wSI/AAAAAAAAAHs/QU57ubh7AR8/s1600-h/shaun+tan.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SiZVRb-7wSI/AAAAAAAAAHs/QU57ubh7AR8/s320/shaun+tan.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343051765979529506" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nearly forgot to post this little lovely drawing. The amazing illustrator &lt;a href="http://www.shauntan.net/"&gt;Shaun Tan&lt;/a&gt; made this little sketch for me a couple of weeks ago at the &lt;a href="http://www.childrensbooksireland.com/"&gt;Children Book Ireland&lt;/a&gt; convention. I have to admit going mainly to listen to him talk about his work, where he gets his inspiration from, the way he describes his process, how he views his own work and mainly how he is so down to earth about it all. (I have to admit I got a little more out of this talk because, the following day when I sat for coffee, himself and an interviewer sat down on&lt;br /&gt;the next table talking about art. I admit it, I listened in, I had to!!!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His way of drawing, I would say, hardly differs from one artist to the next. It was good to go the talk and actually hear him talk about his sketches and paintings. I think every artist should talk about their work a little more, how they integrate their inspiration and experiences into their art is terribly interesting to me and I think helpful for others. It was VERY reassuring to hear him talk about his work because it made me realize that I am handling things well enough, just because it feels right. Feeling good about your work, it probably more important than anything else.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The talk from David Almond was just great as well, he makes writing sound so easy. Another down to earth person as well. His notebooks look like my sketchbooks, lots of writing in various places, lots of ideas floating about and somehow he manages to make something just great and pristine from the messy notebooks. Whenever you read a book, you'd think that a writer just sits down and literally just writes all the perfect verbs, adjectives, pronouns etc perfectly on paper, well not &lt;a href="http://www.davidalmond.com/"&gt;David Almond&lt;/a&gt; anyway! What I found particularly admirable from his talk is his experience with some agents. You'd think he'd just give up, but it's great that he didn't! ! !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Talking about my own work, I find it a little difficult because I have so many sources of inspiration and ideas, weird and crazy ideas, half ideas. It's strange in a way because having so much of this can work against me at times.  I have that notion that every time I don't draw it either gets stored away or totally forgotten.  Does anyone ever have this experience or feel like this? If so, what does one do about it? Sometimes what also stops me from drawing is that I feel my work isn't good at all....but I just do it because I have to...something needs to get out...good or bad.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-6263614509405927236?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/6263614509405927236/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=6263614509405927236&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/6263614509405927236'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/6263614509405927236'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2009/06/shaun-tan.html' title='Shaun Tan'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SiZVRb-7wSI/AAAAAAAAAHs/QU57ubh7AR8/s72-c/shaun+tan.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-8922987749299903957</id><published>2009-05-31T06:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-04T18:39:51.126-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='knitting'/><title type='text'>Knitting</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SiKFc9sF4SI/AAAAAAAAAHk/nPGLiltzZOc/s1600-h/knitting.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SiKFc9sF4SI/AAAAAAAAAHk/nPGLiltzZOc/s320/knitting.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341978840657158434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's a photo of my latest creation. I thought since Moni ( a colleague from Boulder Media ) is having a baby, I should try to challenge myself to make a baby's jumper.  I hope the colours are okay, I tried staying to neutral colours since I don't know if the baby is a boy or a girl !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had to start over just once for this one. Since I don't know how to follow any patterns I just knit and see how it goes. I think it's the trouble if you haven't learned knitting from a professional or in school. Nevertheless I enjoy knitting and all of my mistake-knitting goes into making a large blanket. I sew all the pieces together, God knows what it will look like when I'm done with that :-)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-8922987749299903957?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/8922987749299903957/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=8922987749299903957&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/8922987749299903957'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/8922987749299903957'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2009/05/knitting.html' title='Knitting'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SiKFc9sF4SI/AAAAAAAAAHk/nPGLiltzZOc/s72-c/knitting.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-482687754807936905</id><published>2009-04-20T02:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-20T03:01:25.759-07:00</updated><title type='text'>More Life Painting</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SexFTf_vFJI/AAAAAAAAAHI/HtI18j601b4/s1600-h/angelique_final.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 220px; height: 265px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SexFTf_vFJI/AAAAAAAAAHI/HtI18j601b4/s320/angelique_final.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326708660581110930" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is probably the final stage of this painting. I loved painting her. It's a bit weird dealing with changing light when you're painting. First you can hardly see high-lights and then 5 minutes later the model has loads of high lights.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For home-work we had to paint a friend in Acrylic. Volodya(Vlad) sat for me really still (which I'm so grateful for), I thought I'd post this one up too so you can see the progess.&lt;br /&gt;I think next time I'll do a full-figure painting of him in oil.  &lt;3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 147px; height: 183px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SexFcKCoF7I/AAAAAAAAAHQ/ErUpaURKq64/s320/volodya001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326708809306478514" border="0" /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SexFraIcw8I/AAAAAAAAAHY/une3vi7RxFo/s1600-h/volodya002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 144px; height: 190px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SexFraIcw8I/AAAAAAAAAHY/une3vi7RxFo/s320/volodya002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326709071323907010" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-482687754807936905?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/482687754807936905/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=482687754807936905&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/482687754807936905'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/482687754807936905'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2009/04/more-life-painting.html' title='More Life Painting'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SexFTf_vFJI/AAAAAAAAAHI/HtI18j601b4/s72-c/angelique_final.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-1968900666235426947</id><published>2009-04-05T03:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-05T04:14:22.631-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trinity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='painting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='drawing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='acrylic'/><title type='text'>TCD Life-Painting</title><content type='html'>Been busy doing some painting in my free time as you can see. It's been really fun to go the second-sitting of the pose. I hope next sitting I'll be able to capture the model's face in the painting, she has such a great face for painting, it's very sculptural. God, now I'm sounding like the teacher....someone help me. LOL&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SdiNuU2bACI/AAAAAAAAAGw/hgC1DgbpLpY/s1600-h/Angelique_1st.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 262px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SdiNuU2bACI/AAAAAAAAAGw/hgC1DgbpLpY/s320/Angelique_1st.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321158786748710946" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SdiNlGL5AHI/AAAAAAAAAGo/Jq7KZZcrfm4/s1600-h/Angelique_2nd+.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SdiNlGL5AHI/AAAAAAAAAGo/Jq7KZZcrfm4/s320/Angelique_2nd+.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321158628193402994" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a portrait of my friend Jurgen. I know the eyes aren't done so well but I really enjoyed painting this portrait. Usually when I draw I make sure that I capture the eyes and try to make it look like person but this time I had more fun playing around with the colours and expermenting on the painting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SdiOTl4odZI/AAAAAAAAAHA/jjA8V95M260/s1600-h/jurgen0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 242px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SdiOTl4odZI/AAAAAAAAAHA/jjA8V95M260/s320/jurgen0.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321159426976544146" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our next task for homework is to do a self-portrait in acrylic and anything else of our choice. I'll see if Volodya will pose for me our else I'll take a trip to the botantic garden paint something there....I was supposed to go to Howth and paint there but I don't think that's gonna happen.&lt;br /&gt;:-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SdiOKWgeJKI/AAAAAAAAAG4/Yc-t-RtqukI/s1600-h/Angelique001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 193px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SdiOKWgeJKI/AAAAAAAAAG4/Yc-t-RtqukI/s320/Angelique001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321159268229850274" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;..... and last a warm up drawing....I just liked this pose.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-1968900666235426947?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/1968900666235426947/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=1968900666235426947&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/1968900666235426947'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/1968900666235426947'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2009/04/blog-post.html' title='TCD Life-Painting'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SdiNuU2bACI/AAAAAAAAAGw/hgC1DgbpLpY/s72-c/Angelique_1st.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-3011159697437857941</id><published>2009-03-27T07:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-30T06:05:34.176-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Bologna Bookfair!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SdDC0fvrCeI/AAAAAAAAAGg/KlkgEdSBFOo/s1600-h/spiral.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 160px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SdDC0fvrCeI/AAAAAAAAAGg/KlkgEdSBFOo/s320/spiral.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318965367054993890" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back from Bologna, it was an educational trip more than anything else. The most important things I've learnt at the bookfair was that you gotta ask, keep asking....and twist and turn your questions around so you get all the info you need. They don't hand it over to you. The response was all varied. A few people liked my work, a few LOVED it, one or two people looked like they hated it and then the rest didn't think I could come close enough to what they do. I think I could probably fit in anywhere but of course, they wouldn't know that...it's probably a good thing though, I don't think I'd like to do someone else's style...I'm still figuring out what mine is. A lot of people liked the animation edge I brought to the illustrations but they all ALL ALL said they wanted more real paintings. So, I'm gonna do some of that now. I think it'll be good for me anyway. Of course you know as soon as my folio is filled with "real" paintings, some genius will come around with totally cool photoshop painted stuff. &lt;br /&gt;I saw so many different styles....it's a shame that most people don't work on their presentations....they have lots and lots of loose papers and original works with them. &lt;br /&gt;I saw one girl's illustrations there, oh...they were beautiful...all over it was a very inspiring trip. Very intense, lots and lots of people and I'm SO going back next year! The illustrator's exhibition was just great as well...hopefully my stuff will be there one day as well (ahhh wishful thinking :-)) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm posting up some of the recent work I've been doin...I'll have a go at water colouring them some time and post them up! If you have an tips on watercolouring and oil painting, do send me a link or leave a comment :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/Scz6o9nnZzI/AAAAAAAAAGI/-1wwKIfn8p8/s1600-h/TOBY_YELLING02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 160px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/Scz6o9nnZzI/AAAAAAAAAGI/-1wwKIfn8p8/s320/TOBY_YELLING02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317900841660147506" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/Scz7m9X4okI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/DIk7q5p88c4/s1600-h/TOBY_COASTER01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 160px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/Scz7m9X4okI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/DIk7q5p88c4/s320/TOBY_COASTER01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317901906746057282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/Scz8VsD3hmI/AAAAAAAAAGY/m3xVhtMZPA4/s1600-h/molly_final.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/Scz8VsD3hmI/AAAAAAAAAGY/m3xVhtMZPA4/s320/molly_final.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317902709552547426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-3011159697437857941?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/3011159697437857941/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=3011159697437857941&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/3011159697437857941'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/3011159697437857941'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2009/03/bologna-bookfair.html' title='Bologna Bookfair!'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SdDC0fvrCeI/AAAAAAAAAGg/KlkgEdSBFOo/s72-c/spiral.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-7968311188548186829</id><published>2009-03-10T17:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-10T18:04:36.035-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Week 2 in Life-drawing</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SbcNRJ1CRtI/AAAAAAAAAF4/yGcsdJmpZbE/s1600-h/angeleek1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 186px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SbcNRJ1CRtI/AAAAAAAAAF4/yGcsdJmpZbE/s320/angeleek1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311728873854093010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SbcM9qRC_II/AAAAAAAAAFw/qh-oZqHEduo/s1600-h/angeleek.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SbcM9qRC_II/AAAAAAAAAFw/qh-oZqHEduo/s320/angeleek.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311728538964130946" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SbcL0io0xKI/AAAAAAAAAFo/Bypm0TRoh3M/s1600-h/pastels001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 260px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SbcL0io0xKI/AAAAAAAAAFo/Bypm0TRoh3M/s320/pastels001.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311727282785928354" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, I posted one of my home-work assignments from the life-drawing classes already. Here's the last one I did on Friday night. I'm actually really proud of this one because after watching "Secret of Kells" (which is so beautiful, go and see it!!!) I had a pint with some friends I met in the cinema and went home to do the assignment. I thought that was pretty good of me, I could have easily stayed for 2 more pints - actually I'm a little bit intimidated by this life-drawing teacher. He teaches in NCAD and is kinda strict (let's just say I don't want to get on his bad side ;-))  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other two are from the model. It was pretty intense....only 3 poses in 3 hours. Phew....of course I'm not used to drawing with a paint brush - does it show?? LOL  I thought painting the background in red was a strange thing to do, but the teacher said that classical artist did so to give a better comparison to dark and light, red because it's vibrant and portrays blood in the veins of the model. Thought that was pretty cool!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-7968311188548186829?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/7968311188548186829/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=7968311188548186829&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/7968311188548186829'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/7968311188548186829'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2009/03/week-2-in-life-drawing.html' title='Week 2 in Life-drawing'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SbcNRJ1CRtI/AAAAAAAAAF4/yGcsdJmpZbE/s72-c/angeleek1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-1255794653129928015</id><published>2009-03-06T08:05:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-06T14:46:02.950-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='self-portrait'/><title type='text'>Jaysus!!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SbFJ-ITZx7I/AAAAAAAAAFg/PiGCvtRy4b0/s1600-h/selfportrait.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 218px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SbFJ-ITZx7I/AAAAAAAAAFg/PiGCvtRy4b0/s320/selfportrait.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310106767376107442" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's one of the home-work assignments done, tonight I'll finish off the other one in pastel...I'm awful looking in this..ah well! LOL&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-1255794653129928015?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/1255794653129928015/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=1255794653129928015&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/1255794653129928015'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/1255794653129928015'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2009/03/jaysus.html' title='Jaysus!!!!'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SbFJ-ITZx7I/AAAAAAAAAFg/PiGCvtRy4b0/s72-c/selfportrait.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-6323667380512506103</id><published>2009-02-26T02:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-26T02:44:02.549-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pastels'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life-drawing'/><title type='text'>Life-drawing</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaZyHUnWIII/AAAAAAAAAFQ/gxuEBjVBRDo/s1600-h/life_painting.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 224px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaZyHUnWIII/AAAAAAAAAFQ/gxuEBjVBRDo/s320/life_painting.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307054681021096066" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Started a 10 week course to learn how to paint with oils. We started off with pastels, next week there should be more...oh we also have homework - self portraits using a mirror...have to get started on those!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-6323667380512506103?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/6323667380512506103/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=6323667380512506103&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/6323667380512506103'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/6323667380512506103'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2009/02/life-drawing.html' title='Life-drawing'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaZyHUnWIII/AAAAAAAAAFQ/gxuEBjVBRDo/s72-c/life_painting.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-6623091127870252313</id><published>2009-02-26T02:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-26T02:40:48.543-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='harp'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Colm O&apos;Meachair'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><title type='text'>New Harp!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaZxpm76ijI/AAAAAAAAAFI/M42NtmY6uGs/s1600-h/new_harp.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 256px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaZxpm76ijI/AAAAAAAAAFI/M42NtmY6uGs/s320/new_harp.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307054170543131186" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's a pic of my new harp. I love it, love it, LOVE IT. Did I mention to you that I love it?? &lt;br /&gt;Got it second-hand. It's made by one of my favourite Irish harp makers Colm O'Meachair. He should have a website, all of his work is just gorgeous!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll definitely be practicing more!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-6623091127870252313?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/6623091127870252313/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=6623091127870252313&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/6623091127870252313'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/6623091127870252313'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2009/02/new-harp.html' title='New Harp!!'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaZxpm76ijI/AAAAAAAAAFI/M42NtmY6uGs/s72-c/new_harp.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-6073732240950919588</id><published>2009-02-18T09:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-18T09:08:25.280-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='birthdays'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cards'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mother'/><title type='text'>Birthdays</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SZw_xBfUMJI/AAAAAAAAAEk/WD36NHOJBcA/s1600-h/happybirthday003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 184px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SZw_xBfUMJI/AAAAAAAAAEk/WD36NHOJBcA/s320/happybirthday003.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304184572581523602" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A birthday card I made for my Mom. &lt;br /&gt;Still plugging away at animation here in Boulder Media. Finally gotten into the swing of this project. (Who knows when I'll be getting retakes again!) I've got this major dance animation animate....it's tough! I'll try to make it look good so I can throw it in my showreel.&lt;br /&gt;Tim:-)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-6073732240950919588?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/6073732240950919588/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=6073732240950919588&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/6073732240950919588'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/6073732240950919588'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2009/02/birthdays.html' title='Birthdays'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SZw_xBfUMJI/AAAAAAAAAEk/WD36NHOJBcA/s72-c/happybirthday003.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-1168945987439239006</id><published>2009-02-08T13:44:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-08T14:00:49.439-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A BOX</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SY9T_Yh4_-I/AAAAAAAAAEc/Vp4T2gtQOZg/s1600-h/des002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 288px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SY9T_Yh4_-I/AAAAAAAAAEc/Vp4T2gtQOZg/s320/des002.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300547634819825634" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SY9T0jNvu1I/AAAAAAAAAEU/p1YIK4sJaeQ/s1600-h/des001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 225px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SY9T0jNvu1I/AAAAAAAAAEU/p1YIK4sJaeQ/s320/des001.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300547448709561170" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are two old drawings I found.....thought they were nice :-) &lt;br /&gt;...working on some designs for two children picture-books :-)busy busy!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-1168945987439239006?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/1168945987439239006/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=1168945987439239006&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/1168945987439239006'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/1168945987439239006'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2009/02/box.html' title='A BOX'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SY9T_Yh4_-I/AAAAAAAAAEc/Vp4T2gtQOZg/s72-c/des002.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-4847158933593527142</id><published>2009-02-03T03:33:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-04T09:38:36.655-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='concept'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='drawing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pencil sketch'/><title type='text'>Hidden Bathers</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SYgsCCHDVUI/AAAAAAAAAEM/fYhXyyDcdBM/s1600-h/bathing001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 306px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SYgsCCHDVUI/AAAAAAAAAEM/fYhXyyDcdBM/s320/bathing001.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298533375039198530" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I went to the zoo, I saw this little creature havin a bath - she was so cute I had to draw her! &lt;br /&gt;I did draw some of the other animals but none of were really posing for me ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and they were also movin' too much!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-4847158933593527142?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/4847158933593527142/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=4847158933593527142&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/4847158933593527142'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/4847158933593527142'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2009/02/hidden-bathers.html' title='Hidden Bathers'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SYgsCCHDVUI/AAAAAAAAAEM/fYhXyyDcdBM/s72-c/bathing001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-611572814729221218</id><published>2009-01-28T05:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-28T06:00:01.722-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tcd'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life-drawing'/><title type='text'>Life Drawing Classes</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SYBeLyUWJ8I/AAAAAAAAAEE/8DzPatOG2DI/s1600-h/life_draw003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 182px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SYBeLyUWJ8I/AAAAAAAAAEE/8DzPatOG2DI/s320/life_draw003.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296336718366386114" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SYBdSuFt4rI/AAAAAAAAAD0/sAp4AsY73oU/s1600-h/life_draw001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 156px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SYBdSuFt4rI/AAAAAAAAAD0/sAp4AsY73oU/s320/life_draw001.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296335737978741426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SYBde-jef7I/AAAAAAAAAD8/Irc1jFtzQQw/s1600-h/life_draw002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 232px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SYBde-jef7I/AAAAAAAAAD8/Irc1jFtzQQw/s320/life_draw002.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296335948556959666" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voila, here are my best sketches of last night - all of them are 8 minute poses. Great model! We had a long 20 minute pose which I really messed up. &lt;br /&gt;I saw a flyer with a life-drawing marathon in February I might do that and get up to speed with life drawing again...I'm so stiff! :-)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-611572814729221218?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/611572814729221218/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=611572814729221218&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/611572814729221218'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/611572814729221218'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2009/01/life-drawing-classes.html' title='Life Drawing Classes'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SYBeLyUWJ8I/AAAAAAAAAEE/8DzPatOG2DI/s72-c/life_draw003.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-8058102741971273206</id><published>2009-01-27T09:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-27T10:04:21.607-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Daryl Hannah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Splash'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mermaid'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SX9K1ri4YtI/AAAAAAAAADs/M-oDvkbQv4M/s1600-h/mergirl.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 216px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SX9K1ri4YtI/AAAAAAAAADs/M-oDvkbQv4M/s320/mergirl.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296033972893541074" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ahhhh... a sketch before life-drawing classes. It's been a while since I've gone to classes, thought I'd share this with ye. I used to drive my parents crazy with stories of mermaids. And when I saw &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splash_(film)"&gt;"Splash"&lt;/a&gt; it brought me to another level of crazy ideas hehe...I never stopped having those mad ideas....I'll never grow up heehee&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-8058102741971273206?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/8058102741971273206/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=8058102741971273206&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/8058102741971273206'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/8058102741971273206'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2009/01/ah-sketch-before-life-drawing-classes.html' title=''/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SX9K1ri4YtI/AAAAAAAAADs/M-oDvkbQv4M/s72-c/mergirl.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-8037156934054758846</id><published>2009-01-18T15:59:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-20T13:06:50.907-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Illustration ! ! !</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SXPhzuhLKQI/AAAAAAAAADk/8JnYju6z-3s/s1600-h/fairies_final004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 241px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SXPhzuhLKQI/AAAAAAAAADk/8JnYju6z-3s/s320/fairies_final004.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292822265867217154" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hey All, Happy New Year - will be posting more often this year hopefully - finally gotten round to play around with photoshop a little more. I never use these programs cause I'm hopeless with colouring stuff in computers - usually I'm make loads of little thumbnail colour sketches and then paint the final thing. This time I wanted to do that in photoshop before I sat down and start doing the water-colour sketch. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let me know what you think of it - feedback is welcome!  If you know any good sites to learn how to draw and paint in photoshop, please drop a link - Photoshop's pretty cool but nothing beats the real thing!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will post the watercolour sketch soon!&lt;br /&gt;Cheers!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-8037156934054758846?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/8037156934054758846/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=8037156934054758846&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/8037156934054758846'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/8037156934054758846'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2009/01/illustration.html' title='Illustration ! ! !'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SXPhzuhLKQI/AAAAAAAAADk/8JnYju6z-3s/s72-c/fairies_final004.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-8182554693417483412</id><published>2008-12-25T06:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-14T05:42:59.037-08:00</updated><title type='text'>MERRY CHRISTMAS</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SW3r0Kk1YII/AAAAAAAAADU/NTQqfLG1ABY/s1600-h/xmas003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SW3r0Kk1YII/AAAAAAAAADU/NTQqfLG1ABY/s320/xmas003.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291144418654773378" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi Everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just want to wish ye all a Great Christmas and all the best for the New Year!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For those who couldn't view the animated version of the card, here's your chance now! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://vladimir.dotsenko.googlepages.com/christmascard.html"&gt;Here's the link to the animated one&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I guess not everyone can see it, sorry!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happy 2009 everyone!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-8182554693417483412?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/8182554693417483412/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=8182554693417483412&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/8182554693417483412'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/8182554693417483412'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2008/12/merry-christmas.html' title='MERRY CHRISTMAS'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SW3r0Kk1YII/AAAAAAAAADU/NTQqfLG1ABY/s72-c/xmas003.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-1108211005517127471</id><published>2008-12-21T09:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-21T09:38:55.031-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Knitting !!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SU5-I8FJpYI/AAAAAAAAADE/8xRP92lv5cc/s1600-h/imgp4036.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SU5-I8FJpYI/AAAAAAAAADE/8xRP92lv5cc/s320/imgp4036.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282298104983954818" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm back - but with a scarf! I hope you haven't forgotten me already.&lt;br /&gt;All is going well here. I've been busy knitting away as you can see. I made one scarf as a Chrimbo pressie. It took about 5 weeks to knit it. I'm terribly slow at knitting but I do enjoy it a lot. Grainne showed me a new stitch and I had put that one into practice with the scarf which made me even slower. Hopefully I will have some time to post some new sketches before the holidays!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-1108211005517127471?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/1108211005517127471/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=1108211005517127471&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/1108211005517127471'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/1108211005517127471'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2008/12/knitting.html' title='Knitting !!!'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SU5-I8FJpYI/AAAAAAAAADE/8xRP92lv5cc/s72-c/imgp4036.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-7844808629795005334</id><published>2008-10-26T10:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-26T16:29:31.319-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='animation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='RTS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Troubled'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bouldermedia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Short Film'/><title type='text'>Royal Television Society Awards - Midlands Centre</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SQSjJd_XaxI/AAAAAAAAAC8/YWB5jDdvzM8/s1600-h/imageRTSLogo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 180px; height: 180px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SQSjJd_XaxI/AAAAAAAAAC8/YWB5jDdvzM8/s320/imageRTSLogo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261509647740136210" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm really excited to announce that I have won an award for "Troubled", the short animated student film I made.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm really surprised that I won because I thought the other student films that were also nominated were really strong,  well animated and beautiful pieces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have to give credit to a lot of people who helped me out on the making of this film.&lt;br /&gt;Eoín Greenham, he comped all of the film, he stayed up with me until the wee hours of the night to have it finished on time. He did a real wonderful job!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Claire Perrin; she composed the music, titled "Accepted". She gave permission to use the song in the film.  Multi-talented &lt;a href="http://grainnequinlan.blogspot.com/"&gt;Graínne Quinlan&lt;/a&gt; (on the violin) , Elaine Brennan (great pianist)  and Eoín Greenham (recording)  recorded a new piece of music using the theme of Claire's Song.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Donata Pellizari helped me a lot with colouring in the frames (which takes such a long time believe it or not), she also checked my animation to catch somethings I didn't.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jurgen Inghels; a good friend, helped me with pre-production of the film. At the time I couldn't draw because I broke my drawing hand. I had to submit storyboards but instead I submitted some shots of myself acting out what I wanted to put in the storyboards and then edited everything together to make it look like a short-film. It was very embarrassing but also very funny and helpful!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bouldermedia.tv"&gt;Bouldermedia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.wlv.ac.uk"&gt;Wolverhampton&lt;/a&gt;; I used Boulder's equipment for the production of the short film. I owe a lot of my experience of animation to them because this was my first animation job. I started out a little weak and the staff were very patient with me, especially when I was learning.&lt;br /&gt;After a couple of years in the company I decided it would be good idea to get a my degree in animation. I was lucky enough to be able to do distant learning from Ireland in Wolverhampton(which is in the UK).  I'm forever grateful to everyone working in Boulder and my teachers in Wolverhampton, especially those who entered my film into the RTS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last but not least, my family; &lt;a href="http://etre-moral-etre-sincere.blogspot.com/"&gt;Vlad (Volodya)&lt;/a&gt;, my love, definitely keeps me on my toes, he's the best thing that walked into my life. He listens to me, cares for me and is just the best guy in the whole world! My parents and sister are very understanding, I hardly had any time for writing e-mails and staying in touch. My friends hardly saw me during the college year, I was working full-time so socializing was out of the question. I'm so grateful for everyone in my life!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just want to say thanks to everyone once again, you're brilliant! I'll post a photo of the award itself when I get the chance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks everybody!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-7844808629795005334?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/7844808629795005334/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=7844808629795005334&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/7844808629795005334'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/7844808629795005334'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2008/10/royal-television-society-awards.html' title='Royal Television Society Awards - Midlands Centre'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SQSjJd_XaxI/AAAAAAAAAC8/YWB5jDdvzM8/s72-c/imageRTSLogo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-5567302973628863414</id><published>2008-09-18T14:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-18T14:12:17.714-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='portraits'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mother'/><title type='text'>Mothers.....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SNLD11Yi8QI/AAAAAAAAACM/ZrTYtVITS1E/s1600-h/detta.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SNLD11Yi8QI/AAAAAAAAACM/ZrTYtVITS1E/s320/detta.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247471845470564610" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Again an old sketch I did for my mother, it's from an old photo of her.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-5567302973628863414?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/5567302973628863414/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=5567302973628863414&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/5567302973628863414'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/5567302973628863414'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2008/09/mothers.html' title='Mothers.....'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SNLD11Yi8QI/AAAAAAAAACM/ZrTYtVITS1E/s72-c/detta.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-2523653743752644534</id><published>2008-09-08T14:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-21T15:28:30.034-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cartoons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='concept'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='character design'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='asian'/><title type='text'>Asian Ladies</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SNbJ2OMs0EI/AAAAAAAAACU/mkuqsNk6lOE/s1600-h/china.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SNbJ2OMs0EI/AAAAAAAAACU/mkuqsNk6lOE/s320/china.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248604349108375618" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a little drawing I did up bout two weeks ago, now that I'm home ill (food poisoning) thought I'd throw it up on the blog. I was inspired to do these after seeing some lovely drawings from &lt;a href="http://tinylittlesandra.blogspot.com/"&gt;Sandra&lt;/a&gt;'s Blog!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-2523653743752644534?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/2523653743752644534/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=2523653743752644534&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/2523653743752644534'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/2523653743752644534'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2008/09/asian-ladies.html' title='Asian Ladies'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SNbJ2OMs0EI/AAAAAAAAACU/mkuqsNk6lOE/s72-c/china.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-7019546944122493316</id><published>2008-08-31T23:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-31T23:43:28.744-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Carter - Rob Cullen</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SLuMeHXSiSI/AAAAAAAAAB8/VebQ--rQBX4/s1600-h/CARTER_MAQ.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SLuMeHXSiSI/AAAAAAAAAB8/VebQ--rQBX4/s320/CARTER_MAQ.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240937040376400162" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://robcullen.wordpress.com/"&gt;Rob Cullen&lt;/a&gt;'s fantastic show, Carter and Son!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's  a little something I've been doing off and on. I wanted to challenge myself to do a character that's not my own, I give myself a lot of liberty when I'm sculpting my own stuff. I just thought it might be interesting to see what kind of problems I run into.....and I did run into a good few of them.  It's still in progress. I need to fix the hands as they're totally off the model and sculpt off those rough edges.  Will try to get this one finished within the next week or two :-)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-7019546944122493316?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/7019546944122493316/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=7019546944122493316&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/7019546944122493316'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/7019546944122493316'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2008/08/carter-rob-cullen.html' title='Carter - Rob Cullen'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SLuMeHXSiSI/AAAAAAAAAB8/VebQ--rQBX4/s72-c/CARTER_MAQ.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-2006596362138051803</id><published>2008-08-31T23:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-31T23:28:40.612-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='animation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='short'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maquette'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='film'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sculpture'/><title type='text'>"Troubled"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SLuLbGobhqI/AAAAAAAAAB0/Y9hFAacJfAg/s1600-h/BOY_MAQ.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SLuLbGobhqI/AAAAAAAAAB0/Y9hFAacJfAg/s320/BOY_MAQ.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240935889128621730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the rough maquette I made for my short film in Wolverhampton College this year.&lt;br /&gt;The character is on the banner of my Blog.  I never gave him a name though :-)&lt;br /&gt;I will get round to posting the short on my Blog soon. I want to enter it into a few festivals, I read somewhere they don't take films that have been on the net. Let's wait and see.&lt;br /&gt;The finished maquette will come, I promise!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-2006596362138051803?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/2006596362138051803/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=2006596362138051803&amp;isPopup=true' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/2006596362138051803'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/2006596362138051803'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2008/08/troubled.html' title='&quot;Troubled&quot;'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SLuLbGobhqI/AAAAAAAAAB0/Y9hFAacJfAg/s72-c/BOY_MAQ.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-6587670321638734762</id><published>2008-08-31T22:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-31T23:20:33.555-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maquette'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fantasy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='drawing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='witch'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sculpture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>The Legend of Fiog......continues :-S</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SLuCtqDiOiI/AAAAAAAAABk/qkoYeCYmz58/s1600-h/FIOG.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 253px; height: 467px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SLuCtqDiOiI/AAAAAAAAABk/qkoYeCYmz58/s320/FIOG.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240926312270543394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SLuCtvYI8eI/AAAAAAAAABs/ZfhnAK818_M/s1600-h/FIOG_STUDIES.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SLuCtvYI8eI/AAAAAAAAABs/ZfhnAK818_M/s320/FIOG_STUDIES.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240926313699144162" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Okay....where to begin?  After finishing off that really bad version of my college film in 2001 (and still thinking that "I knew it all) , I stuck the idea away for ages. I got my first job in animation and realized that there's so much more to animation than what I thought. Besides all the fantastic drawings, painting, animation, line-tests, storyboards etc etc, there's that whole pre-production side of the industry which I just LOVE!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Okay, I admit I'm just a wannabe concept/story artist at this stage.&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes I watch films or animated films and think, "gee, that could've been a heck of a lot more powerful/wonderful" if.......I dare not say what I think hehe, I know I would have a heck of a lot of people to answer to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyways, not straying too much from the subject. So, as I mentioned before, my college film was a disaster but now with some professional experience I'm ready to give it another whirl. At this stage I'm just doing concept work on the character. Her name is Fiog. It's Irish for Maiden or Twigs. In my mind I sort of imagined this character to be connected with nature, sort of like an indian guru or a witch without the fantastic powers.  I didn't want to create the typical sexy girl in rags, I want a natural looking girl, skinny, she has a family, the style is not cartoony but easy enough to be animated because I intend doing the animation myself (LOL)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fiog's story is a tragic one, she re-lives her past everyday, her family was murdered by the neighbour village, she lives on an island (impossible for her to abandon), she lives off the land and remembers her family....she blames herself for her powers. Now and again people seek her wisdom...that is the only company she has. That's the rough story, pretty tragic, huh? I love it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The drawings are mostly of Fiog, her mother, and lover. I started making a sculpture that I know I'll never be able to complete because the designs keep on changing, nevertheless I still like the rough outcome of it. It gave me some insight into keeping it simple again!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-6587670321638734762?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/6587670321638734762/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=6587670321638734762&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/6587670321638734762'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/6587670321638734762'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2008/08/legend-of-fiogcontinues-s.html' title='The Legend of Fiog......continues :-S'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SLuCtqDiOiI/AAAAAAAAABk/qkoYeCYmz58/s72-c/FIOG.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-2199921951770164585</id><published>2008-08-31T21:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-31T22:29:26.463-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Concept Stuff</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SLt8bS1CPDI/AAAAAAAAABU/K2AC1RzWPhc/s1600-h/Chinchillas_concept001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SLt8bS1CPDI/AAAAAAAAABU/K2AC1RzWPhc/s320/Chinchillas_concept001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240919399728299058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SLt8bmSPj3I/AAAAAAAAABc/dYulqQGp1Fo/s1600-h/layout.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 269px; height: 190px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SLt8bmSPj3I/AAAAAAAAABc/dYulqQGp1Fo/s320/layout.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240919404951080818" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These are pretty straight forward, I found this little color studyI used for BG for the short "&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uAfchhWNss"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Chinchillas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;" I did a while back. Not really similar to final product but it helped!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next is just a little drawing I did for my college film in Ballyfermot College. I thought I would stick it on the blog just as a reminder to keep things simple! My college film was a bit of a mess cause I wanted to do much in such a short time. In the end it just did not make any sense at all, it just looked like someone got a blind person to edit the film...but we don't call these mistakes, we call this EXPERIENCE! LOL&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-2199921951770164585?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/2199921951770164585/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=2199921951770164585&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/2199921951770164585'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/2199921951770164585'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2008/08/concept-stuff.html' title='Concept Stuff'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SLt8bS1CPDI/AAAAAAAAABU/K2AC1RzWPhc/s72-c/Chinchillas_concept001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-7615702906627059727</id><published>2008-08-31T21:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-31T21:53:58.181-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cartoons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bouldermedia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='drawing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>Monica and Barbarella</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SLt1KAyfdtI/AAAAAAAAABE/kTpldde0mcA/s1600-h/monica.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SLt1KAyfdtI/AAAAAAAAABE/kTpldde0mcA/s320/monica.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240911406246622930" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SLt1KMRmWaI/AAAAAAAAABM/-facUf2jSBE/s1600-h/barbarella.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SLt1KMRmWaI/AAAAAAAAABM/-facUf2jSBE/s320/barbarella.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240911409329887650" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This post is dedicated to Monica (my co worker at &lt;a href="http://bouldermedia.tv/"&gt;BoulderMedia&lt;/a&gt;) , for fun we had to do caricatures each other. I tried make my look like the great &lt;a href="http://kirstenulve.com/"&gt;Kirsten Ulve&lt;/a&gt; style, no need to say...unsuccessful but it was still fun to do!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next one is my own version of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarella_%28film%29"&gt;Barbarella&lt;/a&gt;, a ridiculous cult film!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-7615702906627059727?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/7615702906627059727/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=7615702906627059727&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/7615702906627059727'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/7615702906627059727'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2008/08/monica-and-barbarella.html' title='Monica and Barbarella'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SLt1KAyfdtI/AAAAAAAAABE/kTpldde0mcA/s72-c/monica.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-5766688428767643927</id><published>2008-08-31T21:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-31T21:35:49.584-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='drawing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>Concept Art</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SLtwEVX3aBI/AAAAAAAAAA8/itUdSTh2WyI/s1600-h/marcus002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 197px; height: 148px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SLtwEVX3aBI/AAAAAAAAAA8/itUdSTh2WyI/s320/marcus002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240905811134736402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SLtwEBBDsDI/AAAAAAAAAA0/eFs8CakiRYg/s1600-h/marcus001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 179px; height: 239px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SLtwEBBDsDI/AAAAAAAAAA0/eFs8CakiRYg/s320/marcus001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240905805670363186" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is some concept work I did when figuring out what my mouse character,  "Marcus", would look like.&lt;br /&gt; My friend &lt;a href="http://donalnugent.com/"&gt;Donal&lt;/a&gt; came up with the idea and story, and I did the sketches. After sometime I felt the style of drawing was too classic-illustration book; so I did some simpler drawings of the character. You the new version of Marcus on my first post :-)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-5766688428767643927?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/5766688428767643927/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=5766688428767643927&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/5766688428767643927'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/5766688428767643927'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2008/08/concept-art.html' title='Concept Art'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SLtwEVX3aBI/AAAAAAAAAA8/itUdSTh2WyI/s72-c/marcus002.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-7620189857659151136</id><published>2008-08-31T20:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-31T21:40:50.875-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life-drawing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='people'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='portraits'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sketches'/><title type='text'>Life Drawing</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;OK, so I've been really ill lately, flu, chest-infection, coughing, congested sinuses, aches and pains,  you name it...the good side to this is that I'm  now that I'm bed-bound  and now I have the chance to sort through some drawings and give this blog attention!! Most of these are last year's  life drawings. I had fun with these in particular because it had been so long since I had gone to a class.....and there was no teacher breathing down my neck telling us to do those "blind-drawings" (yes, I know it's good for us!!) Also have to give credit to the female model, she was absolute brilliant!  More to come....stick around!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SLtq5fY91hI/AAAAAAAAAAc/8TxMD-uaRD0/s1600-h/LIFE001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 246px; height: 328px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SLtq5fY91hI/AAAAAAAAAAc/8TxMD-uaRD0/s320/LIFE001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240900127287006738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SLtq5r_4EjI/AAAAAAAAAAk/Jhabo9LF5Fs/s1600-h/LIFE002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 246px; height: 329px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SLtq5r_4EjI/AAAAAAAAAAk/Jhabo9LF5Fs/s320/LIFE002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240900130671432242" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SLtq5-eNPlI/AAAAAAAAAAs/zaUhidEjUV0/s1600-h/LIFE003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 247px; height: 332px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SLtq5-eNPlI/AAAAAAAAAAs/zaUhidEjUV0/s320/LIFE003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240900135630487122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-7620189857659151136?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/7620189857659151136/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=7620189857659151136&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/7620189857659151136'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/7620189857659151136'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2008/08/life-drawing.html' title='Life Drawing'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06901079426862709875</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SaSBA0SskPI/AAAAAAAAAEw/gTznHurjI2c/S220/avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwawEzbuf1U/SLtq5fY91hI/AAAAAAAAAAc/8TxMD-uaRD0/s72-c/LIFE001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-3638192985357495339</id><published>2008-07-02T14:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-02T14:52:16.083-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Showreel</title><content type='html'>Here's the Link to my SHOWREEL&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ2P0o07Xzs"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ2P0o07Xzs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheers Tim&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-3638192985357495339?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/3638192985357495339/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=3638192985357495339&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/3638192985357495339'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/3638192985357495339'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2008/07/showreel.html' title='Showreel'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-6328583375038118287</id><published>2008-06-06T12:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-06T12:28:07.782-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Natie.....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_y3vNrzSv6H0/SEmNa3uGAWI/AAAAAAAAAE8/JC4OEyFC5zg/s1600-h/Natie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208849936804086114" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_y3vNrzSv6H0/SEmNa3uGAWI/AAAAAAAAAE8/JC4OEyFC5zg/s400/Natie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is the Lovely Natie....I actually based this on a friend of mine. She's a model, a terribly pretty girl. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Of course this drawing does not represent anyone I know....but she has the same eyes like her ;-) .....I should make a portrait of her some time, then you can see the resemblance.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-6328583375038118287?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/6328583375038118287/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=6328583375038118287&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/6328583375038118287'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/6328583375038118287'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2008/06/natie.html' title='Natie.....'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_y3vNrzSv6H0/SEmNa3uGAWI/AAAAAAAAAE8/JC4OEyFC5zg/s72-c/Natie.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-6556427685817355451</id><published>2008-05-26T16:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-26T17:05:14.958-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Mermaid</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_y3vNrzSv6H0/SDtOtAlrL7I/AAAAAAAAAE0/h_akcy2gJmU/s1600-h/illustration003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204840329515839410" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_y3vNrzSv6H0/SDtOtAlrL7I/AAAAAAAAAE0/h_akcy2gJmU/s400/illustration003.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;My friend Donal Nugent (a great poet) wrote a lovely poem about a mermaid, so I just had to do a sketch/watercolour of it. I don't think I did the poem justice though...but I enjoyed making doin the sketch though :-) thanks Donal !!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-6556427685817355451?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/6556427685817355451/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=6556427685817355451&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/6556427685817355451'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/6556427685817355451'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2008/05/mermaid.html' title='Mermaid'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_y3vNrzSv6H0/SDtOtAlrL7I/AAAAAAAAAE0/h_akcy2gJmU/s72-c/illustration003.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-1654266782442898107</id><published>2008-05-19T07:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-19T08:07:09.345-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chinchillas BG'/><title type='text'>BG - Chin's</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_y3vNrzSv6H0/SDGWYBEzd1I/AAAAAAAAAEs/xknikQ1vpug/s1600-h/scene002v.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_y3vNrzSv6H0/SDGWYBEzd1I/AAAAAAAAAEs/xknikQ1vpug/s400/scene002v.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202104383939245906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_y3vNrzSv6H0/SDGV7REzd0I/AAAAAAAAAEk/XA6rTA5GpsA/s1600-h/scene001v.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_y3vNrzSv6H0/SDGV7REzd0I/AAAAAAAAAEk/XA6rTA5GpsA/s400/scene001v.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202103890018006850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Here are 2 Layout/Bg's I did up ages ago for my little short. I really enjoyed making the colours as crazy as possible. When I usually colour my own work I tend to keep it really simple as possible, this was the first time I said to myself, "feck it, I'll just try something totally different" and I liked the outcome so here we are :-)&lt;br /&gt;....it's acrylic paint on canvas paper...just in case you wanted to know!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-1654266782442898107?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/1654266782442898107/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=1654266782442898107&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/1654266782442898107'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/1654266782442898107'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2008/05/bg-chins.html' title='BG - Chin&apos;s'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_y3vNrzSv6H0/SDGWYBEzd1I/AAAAAAAAAEs/xknikQ1vpug/s72-c/scene002v.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-4099231374759288577</id><published>2008-04-17T05:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-17T07:02:18.817-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Red Smouldering Dress</title><content type='html'>&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5190196734929928674" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_y3vNrzSv6H0/SAdIbnvkAeI/AAAAAAAAAEE/ecFSbqD-6gg/s400/smoulder002.jpg" border="0" /&gt;I finally coloured in one of my older designs.&lt;br /&gt;I did the lines up earlier but never had a chance to throw in some colours. Hope you likey!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheers Tim :-)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-4099231374759288577?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/4099231374759288577/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=4099231374759288577&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/4099231374759288577'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/4099231374759288577'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2008/04/red-smouldering-dress.html' title='Red Smouldering Dress'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_y3vNrzSv6H0/SAdIbnvkAeI/AAAAAAAAAEE/ecFSbqD-6gg/s72-c/smoulder002.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-8819322676669226681</id><published>2008-04-04T10:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-04T10:12:12.223-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Layout</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_y3vNrzSv6H0/R_ZgmsaO8YI/AAAAAAAAAD4/182qG4Nz7YQ/s1600-h/layout04.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185438238836191618" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_y3vNrzSv6H0/R_ZgmsaO8YI/AAAAAAAAAD4/182qG4Nz7YQ/s400/layout04.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Here's a drawing I made for a layout class in college. I really loved drawing trees very much and did tonnes of drawings of them. I love seeing and being around really old and large trees, it's amazing how beautiful some trees can make all these  fantastic twists and turns, curving round in various directions. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-8819322676669226681?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/8819322676669226681/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=8819322676669226681&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/8819322676669226681'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/8819322676669226681'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2008/04/layout.html' title='Layout'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_y3vNrzSv6H0/R_ZgmsaO8YI/AAAAAAAAAD4/182qG4Nz7YQ/s72-c/layout04.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469790911738554970.post-2937121843505632134</id><published>2007-09-01T09:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-01T10:00:36.907-07:00</updated><title type='text'>MICE</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_y3vNrzSv6H0/RtmaizHBhKI/AAAAAAAAAAM/nD6BbA2jZKg/s1600-h/coverpage001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105281575227065506" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_y3vNrzSv6H0/RtmaizHBhKI/AAAAAAAAAAM/nD6BbA2jZKg/s400/coverpage001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hey ho, this is my first blog I'm just gonna select an old illustration.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3469790911738554970-2937121843505632134?l=timothydowling.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/feeds/2937121843505632134/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3469790911738554970&amp;postID=2937121843505632134&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/2937121843505632134'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3469790911738554970/posts/default/2937121843505632134'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://timothydowling.blogspot.com/2007/09/mice.html' title='MICE'/><author><name>Tim Dowling</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_y3vNrzSv6H0/RtmaizHBhKI/AAAAAAAAAAM/nD6BbA2jZKg/s72-c/coverpage001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry></feed>
