Tag: Drawing

Because of its translucency, tracing paper can be an artist’s best friend when it comes to auditioning designs for artwork.

Sandrine Pelissier’s 4 Tips for Trying Out Patterns

Patterns are a fun addition to any design, but they can be very time consuming to create, especially for large projects. Before committing to an idea, it is nice to be able to visualize how a color or a pattern will look so you can more confidently apply it to your work. Here are four…

ink drawing for Inktober:

Improve Your Ink Skills During Inktober!

Tomorrow is October 1st, the kickoff to Inktober, a month when artists challenge themselves to create an ink drawing every day. Are you in? I hope so—I look forward to this event every year. I always encourage artists to take part in Inktober if they can, since it’s a great opportunity to take your creativity…

Top Drawing Techniques You Can’t Live Without

As an avid art journaler and someone who devours new creative processes, I found great value in the video Top 10 Doodle, Drawing and Mark Making Techniques. This compilation video reintroduced me to forgotten drawing techniques, like pen and ink cross hatching, and showed me new ideas to add to my creative tool belt. The…

Studio Saturdays: Making Faces

Faces show up often in my sketchbooks and art journal pages, but I’m not talking serious portraits—these are silly character faces I draw and paint to amuse myself. Recently I decided to show these creatures more respect by creating a little handmade book just for them, with accordion pages and a folded cover (the instructions for…

Life From Decay

A little digital and traditional mixed art piece here.  I wanted the concept of a spring fairy who brings the forest back to life after the long winter sleep.  This was for an auction last year, but I still really love this and wanted to share it with you lovely folks. ^_^   This was first…

black, white, read all over ornament challenge due July 11, 2014

My Frida Kahlo ornament can be used year round as it includes various drawings that I have did of Frida Kahlo throughout her lifetime.  I trimmed down on of my art exhibition postcard invitations to the proper size, then added color red heart made from silky ribbon.  I, also, added a red ribbon, recycled, to hang…

Cinderella

Thought I would share on of my little paper dolls that I love to  make for fun. ^_^  This one is of Cinderella from the wonderfully classic fairy tale, which I just adore.  She is made with coloured pencils, gold ink and white ink.  She is first coloured on a seperate sheet of paper, then…

Tangled

So this piece is called "Tangled"…well as you can see from the title above. *laughs*   It's 8 1/2 x 11 inches.  Done with pencil and white ink on Deleter Art paper.  Which I love because it's really very nice and smooth.  Took a while from start to finish, but very happy with the end…