Hello, my name is Lindsay Baker,
and I'm a doodle addict. Sydney, Australia

My passions include painting (watercolour, acrylic, oil pastel, and more), playing the guitar and piano, reading, illustrated books, cartoons (Rick and Morty, Gravity Falls, Future Space), humour (especially classic British comedy), fantasy and science fiction, gaming in all forms, the paranormal and supernatural, nature, animals, and probably a bunch of other stuff I've forgotten to mention. I *love* to trade original art with other artists. Not big, expensive pieces, just fun postcard-sized pieces. Everyone should own at least one piece of original art (that's not their own!).

I specialize in acrylic, illustration, landscapes, oil pastel, portraits, still life, watercolor, watercolour.

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Pen and watercolour ATC (60x90mm). I'm giving away 50 mini paintings this year including this one (sorry, all slots are taken).

Big Al Lopez from Sktchy. Pen and watercolour. This was only meant to be a doodle in a corner of a sketchbook to knock the cobwebs off as I haven't done pen and watercolour in months, but I quickly got enthused with it and really like the end result!

I made a Zine called "Famous Bottoms" - it's a quiz with 12 watercolour paintings of famous bottoms (painted by me). This one is #8 and I assume most people will recognise it! But how many of the others would you know? If you'd like a copy of the Zine, you can buy it at https://LindsayBakerArt.square.site for $AU8.00 plus shipping :)

A pencil and watercolour study, inspired by Scott Christian Sava's "60 days of studying the masters" on Youtube. This was intimidating from start to finish, by far the most complex drawing I've ever done! It took me almost a week to get the drawing right, but the painting was done in a day. In between were many days of feeling overwhelmed, lost, and then afraid of messing it up. But I got there in the end and I think I pushed myself to a new skill and confidence level. Good thing too, I've got 58 more studies to do!

After Portrait of Armand Roulin by Vincent Van Gogh

A pen and watercolour study, inspired by Scott Christian Sava's "60 days of studying the masters" on Youtube.

Pen and watercolour. Reference from Sktchy/Museum

Acrylic on black-primed MDF, 6x6"

Pencil and watercolour. Reference came from u/moonymelt via Reddit r/DrawMeNSFW.

This was an exercise in taking a photo that was quite dark and foreboding and turning it into a happy looking illustration. I'm slowly getting my head around how to make my work look like illustration instead of "fine art". This is watercolour and colour pencil.

Acrylic gouache on MDF, approx 4x6". Part of an experiment: what if I painted the inside of a picture frame (ie, the inside of the backing board)? Result: it actually works really well!

I recently discovered oil pastels and am being amazed every day at how versatile they are. While cleaning my desk this morning I found some blank ATCs (Artist trading cards, 2.5x3.5") and wondered if I could work small with such a bulky medium. Turns out, absolutely yes.

Acrylic on canvas, 12x12".

Pencil and watercolour, 8x12cm. From a photo at Sktchy.

Had this joke in my head for days, had to doodle it out so it would shut up! Pen and watercolour, 5x4".

Pencil and watercolour on paper, 5x7".

Pencil and watercolour on paper. I had intended to go further with this, but I really liked the freshness of this first impression, so I left it alone.

Pencil and watercolour, 7x5".

As a fun way to come up with drawing prompts I've been thinking up rhyming couplets (a la Dr. Suess) with my wife. Particularly pleased with this one! It's going to a friend who loves D&D. Pen and watercolour on paper, 5x7".

It's official. I've gone to the dark side and fallen in love with acrylic gouache - specifically the Liquitex one. If you'd like to read my detailed thoughts I've put them in my blog ( https://www.lindsaymadeit.com/2020/03/05/acrylic-gouache-review-new-portrait/ ) , but otherwise, here's my first painting with them.

Gouache on paper, 5x7". Wanted to see how far I could go with simplification without losing a sense of three dimensional form.

Gouache and colour pencil, 6x4”. Trying to learn how to achieve a more “animation” look.

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