Hi art friends. This weekend demonstrated why I have trouble going full digital with my art: migraines. Still getting them. Thanks menopause. Needing to be creative today, I pulled out my character sketchbook, Derwent inktense pencils and pulled together Al Keaton's character sheet. The rest of today will be to design 2 other of the … Continue reading Al Keaton character design
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Hi art friends. I have been skeptical of digital sketching but persistence does pay off. Tonight's journal page was inspired by my mixed media painting days. Using Procreate and various Design Cuts brush sets. I started with a bit of journaling about the day then noodled about with some of my favorite colors and got … Continue reading 20200720 Art Journal page
Hi ho art friends! Please join me for the 2nd Create with Me series, where we are going to make an art journal from 1 piece of 15"x20" 140 lb cold press watercolor paper and 1 piece of kraft paper the same size. In the first video of this series, I'll also explain my plan … Continue reading Create with Me, Series 2: Art Journal
Hi ho friends. Life Book Week 9 had 2 lessons. This post is about the mini lesson with Effy Wild. I'm familiar with Effy's style, so I downloaded and reviewed the pdf and remembered that I'd painted over some journaling. This lesson was a great way to make use of the background. I mixed some … Continue reading Life Book Week 9
Hi ho, friends. Life Book Week 7 had 2 lessons. This post is about Tam's mini lesson, featuring a quirky bird. I loved her Quirky Birds lesson from Life Book 2014 and had a lot of fun with this one. I watched some of this lesson. This week was in the middle of Noir City, … Continue reading Life Book Week 7
Hi ho friends. Life Book Week 6 is a main lesson with Tam. I love Tam and her videos, but there were 2 hours of video and I had to get my household chores done in preparation for Noir City 2018 the following week, so my time was limited. I watched her intro video and … Continue reading Life Book Week 6
Hi ho friends, Life Book Lesson 4's teacher was Lucy Brydon, another teacher who is new to me. This was a lesson in making a page with experimenting with acrylic paint layers using a gel plate prints. This was a lesson where I watched the videos. The lesson involved making a number of gel plate … Continue reading Life Book Week 4
Hi ho friends, Week 2's Life Book teacher was Andrea Gomoll. She's been a teacher on Life Book before and Ever After. I love how she works with watercolors, deepening the colors further than I thought possible. Her technique requires quite a bit of patience to letting layers dry then adding layer after layer of … Continue reading Life Book Week 2
Hi ho friends. Today's post features one of my oldest art journal pages from Draw Happy, one of the first online art classes I took with Jane Davenport. Actually, it may have been my first online class. Honestly, I don't recall - I've taken so many classes. This glass is one of my first mixed … Continue reading Glamour girl
Hi ho friends. The art journal review continues with a background page I made for one of my first online art classes with Jane Davenport: Draw Happy. This is the class she recommends as the starting point for newbies and it eases you into drawing with art journals, doodles and very simple faces. I believe … Continue reading Frolicaholic background
