pencils and feathers

I finished another little drawing. I haven’t done one like this in a while. The thing that I love about pencils, is that they are so portable and convenient. I will be drawing a lot more. I will also be selling the smaller original drawings at very reasonable prices. 

“Feathered Fae”

I want to draw!.

I have been painting so much. I think i need to draw a bit. These are the kind of things that I use to draw. The one with color, I drew then digitally colored it. I did it a little while after college. The second one I actually started in high school and then put it down and then finished it up in the beginning of college. I have whole books full of sketches. I intend on posting pits and pieces of them from time to time. I will be spending more time on the drawing part of things. With all the sealers and mediums now. I can just paint over the drawing if I want to. I might even do some drawing on wood! I am really enjoying using wood as a substrate.

Femme Thou Art Collective Auction

A baroque inspired painting for the January 2014 auction on Femme Thou Art Collective on facebook.
8.5x11in watercolor, colored pencil, acrylic and graphite on mixed media paper. Bidding starts at $5.
https://www.facebook.com/FemmeThouArtCollective

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What I am doing for the Femme Thou Art Collective this month for their auction.

Work in progress…

A pic that I am working on. 

Here is the sketch:

 

Here is what it looks like right now. I still have a bit to go-

Staying awake with an angel

I was up really late, sketching and sketching. I came up with this-

Sometimes, working into the night results in something really awesome. Some artists say that this is the best time for them to work. I try not to do that every night or I would never sleep. When do you do your best work?

I am having a ‘sketchy’ Friday the 13th

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Dryad Painting Walkthrough

I took photos of my process. Here is a walkthrough-

Materials used:

Strathmore mixed media paper, pencil,watercolor, colored pencils, acrylic ink(brown), brush tip marker, and a tiny bit of white acrylic.

I started with a basic sketch of the face. I did not add much hair or the branches. I wanted the paint to do the work there.

I then began to add light washes. I believe I used yellow ochre for the hair ans skin, and brown for the branches. I used a wash of rose madder on the nose, cheeks, lips and any parts of the face that would be ‘rosy’. I used a blue wash for the sky and the shadows on the face and neck.

I continued to add color to the hair. I chose a reddish brown. I filled in the iris of the eye. I did not worry about painting around the pupil, since I was going to color it in with a dark color later. I noticed that the brown on the branches was washing away as I painted, (My first time using this paper) so I simply wiped it away with a damp cloth. I used a small brush and some brown ink to define them instead. It worked well. I also used a bigger brush and used the brown ink in the hair. I used colored pencils to add detail and wildness to the hair.

I got out my brush tipped marker and filled in the pupil and lined the top eyelid and added more wild hair and loosely outlined some of the branches. I used the colored pencils to shade the details of the face and neck and added a couple of tattoos. I used pinks and browns. I then used white acrylic to make the shines in the eyes and.a reflection on the bottom lip.

I finished up using more colored pencils just to darken the rosy bits and the shadows. I drew eyelashes to accentuate her eyes

And here is the final product- scanned and available in my Etsy shop.  https://www.etsy.com/shop/FlutterblissArt

Feel free to leave comments or questions for me. 🙂

sketching and socializing.

I have missed blogging the past few days as I have been hanging out with friends. I got some new awesome paper and I am hoping to work on some new watercolor art. I have been sketching a lot, since I haven’t had time to get the paint out. 

I just realized that all the girls in the sketch are staring at me. ha!

This is the piece that I am about to work on. It will be a watercolor/mixed media painting. 

So, for any artist that see this. What kinds of paper do you use for your art?