A Year of Drawing Day 8

A plethora of work today!

I will likely not be posting tomorrow. We've got a lot of stuff going on! See you Friday or Saturday!

 

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A Year of Drawing and a Work in Progress

Days 6 and 7

I am still playing with cute animals.

 

I also experimented with my Inktense Pencils and painting rocks. This was inspired by a video tutorial from Dion Dior.

 

I also made it into the studio today and started on this painting. I hope to finish it tomorrow.

 

Thanks so much for visiting!

 

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It's Official! I Have a Store!

I have partnered with Fine Art America to sell prints, framed art, canvases and acrylics of my artwork. I am so excited by this opportunity. Fine Art America lets you choose size, style, frame and so forth and they ship all over the world! How cool is that?

Please, stop buy the shop and check out the artwork I have to offer. I have a nifty slide show of my artwork over there on the right. Also, if you like my Facebook Page or follow me on Twitter you will see when new work is posted.

Here is some of the artwork now available as prints.

 

 

 

 

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A Year of Drawing Day 4 & 5

I decided to go "woodland cute" this weekend with my drawing. I think Alisa Burke's Whimsy & Wonder E-course inspired this set of drawings. It's a sketchbook approach to creating whimsical drawings. My sketching skills are something I really want to improve on so, this class was perfect. I will say if you want to learn to draw a specific thing, that is not how Alisa teaches. She gives you ideas and shows what she does but she does not show you step by step how to draw specific things. The drawings she made for this course are not intimidating though. If you draw a little and like to draw from imagination, this course is wonderful.

 

 

 

 

One thing I have definitely learned is that I am a paper snob. I have to use Strathmore Mixed Media paper if I want to do watercolors. Alisa uses cheaper paper and doesn't mind the buckling. She even irons the paper after it dries. The buckling drives me crazy. I have to use the good stuff. Strathmore has a few mixed media journals and their paper holds up very well.

Oh, and just an FYI. I have a big announcement coming this week! Stay tuned!

 

 

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A Year of Drawing Day 3

I felt like chilling out and drawing longer than just 10 minutes today. I'm getting a spring cold (I wish spring warm would come with it) and I'm just sitting with the kids while they watch movies. I did a sketchbook page of a Serene Girl using Derwent Coloursoft Pencils. The aren't as nice as Prismacolor Pencils but I'm just playing around.

Have a good weekend.

 

 

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A Year of Drawing Day 2

One of my weakest areas when it comes to drawing is the body. I'm going to work on that for a bit. I pulled out a posable mannequin and a ball point pen and sketched for 10 minutes.

 

 

Here is another Zenanimal.

Before. This is drawn in one continuous line.

After. I "zenned" it up with some more loops and thicker lines.

 

Have a wonderful day!

 

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A Year of Drawing

This June I'm taking Lilla Roger's new e-course, "Make Art That Sells" and I decided I need to improve my drawing skills. I'm good but I would like to be better. I've been looking at the art of some licensed mixed media artists and they all have wonderful illustration skills. I want to improve but I also don't want it to be a chore. I have to enjoy what I am doing so I keep the desire to do it.

I'm making my rules very simple:

Draw for 10 minutes a day (minimum)

Post what I draw (the good, the bad and the ugly) on my blog (hopefully everyday)

In my opinion it doesn't matter what you draw as long as you are drawing something. I want to keep my drawing options open in regards to subjects matter but give myself an easy minimum time period to stick too. No matter how crazy things get in this house I can usually find 10 minutes to draw.

Here is what I drew yesterday; Some quick characters.

 

 

 

 

Before bed I've gotten into drawing what I call Zenanimals. Here are my two latest.

 

My intention is to do this for a year. Yes, a whole year! This is the only way to make it a habit which is what I want. I enjoy drawing and I think it's a helpful skill to be comfortable doing. I don't want to have any "fear" about drawing. I have a little basket of drawing tools that I carry around the house with me and I have a mini sketchbook in my purse. I have an issue with drawing in public that I want to overcome.

I just turned 44 so starting my Year of Drawing this month is a good thing.

I hope you will follow along!

Thanks for stopping by.

 

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