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Every Day in May: Day 10 – Orchid Show Drawings

(click the image to see a larger, sharper view) I skipped day nine,  but I’m back on with Day 10.  I went to my first orchid show on Sunday.  I had never been to a flower show and I wanted some new things to draw so I went. I took a few pictures to useContinue reading “Every Day in May: Day 10 – Orchid Show Drawings”

Every Day in May: Day 8 – Pug ATC

After doing a number of sketches last week I finished my friend Robin’s card.   She supplied me with a few pictures of her pug and put this together.  Here are a few sketches I mentioned in another post: My main focus was on the eyes and capturing the guilty expression the dog had.   IContinue reading “Every Day in May: Day 8 – Pug ATC”

Every Day in May: Day 6 – Truck Sketch

I spotted this truck  while taking one of my walks.  I did a few quick sketches and then took a few pictures and worked on it from home.   I haven’t used my watercolor pencils in a while so I played around with them here.  I love these old trucks.   They have so much character.

Every Day in May: Day 5 – White on Black

I managed to finish my last card for an illustratedatcs.com swap.  I was starting to get frantic because, again, I had signed up for too many swaps and taken a ton of requests.  Well, I can now cross one off the list.   *Ah*  That feels better. This little portrait card is simply white colored pencilContinue reading “Every Day in May: Day 5 – White on Black”

Every Day in May – Day 4 – Another Pug Sketch

I’m still doing sketches for an artist trading card for a friend of mine.   I’m working on getting just the right expression.   I’m not really a dog person, but the more I study the reference photos I was given, the more I appreciate this dog.  He’s awfully cute.  Perhaps that’s why I always spend aContinue reading “Every Day in May – Day 4 – Another Pug Sketch”

Every Day In May – Days 1-3

Hurray!  I’m on track for Every Day in May.  Here’s a round-up of drawings I did over the weekend. Friday, May 1: A friend of mine gave me some scratchboard paper cut to ATC size.  It had been sitting on my drawing desk for a few weeks and I finally just dove into it.  I’dContinue reading “Every Day In May – Days 1-3”

Joining up for Every Day in May

French Toast Girl does this every year and I remember a lot of Everyday Matters folks doing it last year.  The idea is that you do your art every single day for the month of May.  It doesn’t have to be great.   The thing is to do it.  She  even has an Every Day InContinue reading “Joining up for Every Day in May”

More Ink and Watercolor: Looking Forward

My watercolor experiments continue.  So far my favorite colors for portraits are: scarlet lake raw sienna golden yellow french ultramarine violet a touch of burnt sienna I mix scarlet lake and raw sienna on the palette for the base color.  After that I go wet into wet and and apply an individual color on theContinue reading “More Ink and Watercolor: Looking Forward”

Ink and Watercolor Wash: Back to Sketching

I had been neglecting my sketchbook so I got out my dip pen and did a bunch of sketches.   The best of the bunch is this cartoon of my husband.  I found a picture that I had taken of him more than ten years ago and took a few liberties with it.  I applied anContinue reading “Ink and Watercolor Wash: Back to Sketching”