A 365 day art project… one drawing a day
Completely uninspired, and tired, I didn’t feel like ‘arting’ today. But I did, and just finished before midnight. There’s nothing inspiring here, except perhaps the idea that I did it anyway.
It felt cold and remote without the background, but some bright blue added a little depth and connection. Now… go do that thing you don’t feel like doing.
Not exactly highbrow art, but we were crammed in a tiny hotel room with a 115 pound puppy who won’t sleep with the lights on, so I was doodling in relative darkness. And then in the bathroom when I really needed light. 🙂
(Not MY journal, but one going out for a swap, “Stuffed Winter Journal” … or something like that. Basically, pages of either ephemera and notes from whatever I have done, or whatever have felt like doodling throughout January and February. – Swap partner Djcamp04, don’t look!)
And the gift card inspiring the page can be seen peeking up… (I have an addiction to collecting interesting gift cards) Then I googled drawn snowflake images and used other people’s creativity.
I went to Michaels last night to get supplies for the drawing class. I spent like two hours staring at a row of pencils. PENCILS. Weird because A) I had no idea there were so many choices and B) I really had fun staring. It’s hard to find the right place between awesome quality supplies, and fun stuff, and a reasonable budget. My 50% off one item helped a little. (Really little. Because while it was an item I wanted, it was not an item I was planning to purchase yet)
My little haul: Charcoal… I’ve never enjoyed charcoal. But maybe I just wasn’t taught how to use it properly. A mixed media book and a watercolor book, $8 each, a pretty good deal. A leather chamois. Too expensive for a tiny scrap. Two drawing pencils… that you can use a paintbrush on as well! I’ve been wanting these. AND 6 alcohol markers!! (Illustrator, by Spectrum Noir.) I’ve been planning to get copics but they are so expensive that I keep putting it off. And I don’t like the colors in the little sets at Michaels. I decided to try these while I had the coupon, and I love them! (So far.) I can tell I’ll be wanting the next set asap. That’s the trouble with trying new things. It leads to buying even more new things.
(drawn for day 15, colored for day 24) I did more art than this, but I will post it tomorrow!
Grabbed an idea from a safari search, and added doodles. Don’t even ask. I don’t know. But it’s my art for today. He has a rather Audrey Hepburnesque neck. Actually… now that I look at him… It may be HER! I like him better now.
NOT “slightly a favorite”, you read it correctly. My cat’s name is Slightly, and he loves this chair. It doesn’t seem particularly inviting for a cat, to me, but maybe it’s because he wants to sit with me in my ‘studio’Â the hours I spend in there, just being my cat… or more likely it’s because I don’t allow the 95 pound puppy in that room. The one that really believes Slightly loves being in his mouth. I’m babysitting today, so just a quick sketch, Slightly’s chair. Sans Slights himself. Who is perfectly safe, and not inside a mouth at all.
So I thought today I’d start coming up with ideas for a watercolor coloring book, a real need in the crafters/amateur artists market as far as I can tell. I can only find one, put out by prima, that’s on real watercolor paper. It has a few nice designs, but is mostly short quotes, a few words with a little graphic and lots of space. I am thinking of some designs that might be more fun to paint.
Still, I started simple, with… yeah, a sketch with just words, (by the way LOOK AT THAT! I finally designed a font of my own instead of copying someone’s!) and then thought I’d go ahead and color it in, too, with the paints that arrived yesterday…Prima Watercolor Confections.(the Tropical set) I LOVE them. They are SO bold and beautiful. I’ve never used really high end watercolor paints, so don’t have much to compare with right now, but these are very fun for an average person to play with. (Prima, I love them so much, I should be your spokesperson!!! Just ask!)
I hope to figure out a way to design and publish a watercolor coloring book over the course of the year, so stay tuned with that. If you have suggestions or experience with a project like this PLEASE leave advice. My daughter suggested I need a drawing tablet for this project, so last night I unsuccessfully tried to load the wacom tablet my nephew had left here for me to play with a few years ago. It seems so much simpler to DRAW, on PAPER. Technology frightens me. So many options. But I’m figuring out the blog thing so I can figure out the tablet thing, too.
Did I mention how much fun these paints are?????
I actually thought I’d do a quick nothing doodle today because I was going out… but I ended up trying a new brush pen and spent more time than I’d imagined. I like it more than the kuretake marker I’ve tried the past couple of days. It’s a thin plastic tube full of ink, with a brush tip… like if a soft bodied fountain pen and a paint brush had a baby. It’s probably for Japanese writing, actually. (the blue pen in the photo) Found out the hard way the ink stays wet a LONG time and still smears even after it is dry if you erase around it. So… I worked the smears into the design and liked the end result MORE than without the smears! Tried three other new pens as well, micron and comic… Fun doodles! More time than I meant to invest, and certainly doesn’t look like it. But day 13 is finished.
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