And not JUST art… The body of the letter is filled with salutations and the warm wishes. Thank you, Ellis! 🙂 Best happy-mail ever!
And later… a lovely card, hand drawn, hand delivered…
Day 339 (Tues Nov 5) Guest Artist, Ellis
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Day 291 (Thurs Oct 19) bunny!
We have a guest artist today, Ellis Dickson, 5 years old…. Superhero Fire-girl Mosquito… our Ellie-bellie! But enough introduction… on to the ART.
Ellis and I were drawing bunnies, and I was supposed to post this spectacular masterpiece YESTERDAY, and got bogged down with work instead. Apologies, sweet girl! Two I drew for her to color, but the other she drew by herself with just a dab or two from me! AND she used really special ARTIST pens, too. Pretty cool, huh? You can all say “I knew her when…”
And here is my quick sketch for the evening. I cant do more than three minutes but like we have said throughout  October… 3 minutes is better than no minutes! Inktober word for today “cloud”… and I thought about how much the silly drawn clouds look like trees…so there is my little weeping cloud tree.
Day 275 (b) Tues Oct 3… granddaughter art
My 5 year old granddaughter, Ellis, is an artist, too. We worked on this together but she did the hard parts. It’s her daddy and little brother at the pumpkin patch last Sunday.
I did my own version, as well, after I practiced on hers:
I love his little face!
Day 214 (wed Aug 2) sketching
Trying a quick sketch of ellis and mommy. They don’t look like this. But at least you can see it was a happy moment. I’ve tried it twice and will try a third time, later.
Day 162 (Sun 6/11) colored pencil sketch: girl
I am completely unfamiliar with colored pencils. But it turns out, I like them!! I think I’ll need to play around with these more.
Day 160 (Fri 6/9)
Even if you are 4, the last day of school is awesome.
Day 110 (Thurs April 20) mermaid Ellis
With freckles this time. A few extra. So, I took the ruined drawing from yesterday
and (since it was ruined anyway) just played with it. I used very shimmery silver and copper paints found here on Amazon (the popular Gansai Tambi paint set) (These paints, by the way, have really large pans, if the tiny half pans of other paint sets intimidate you the way they did me… and the paint is vivid and beautiful. I like the convenience and brightness of my prima better, but I really enjoy these quite a bit, if you are looking for an affordable fun set and you really don’t care whether they are professional grade or not.) When seen in person the shimmery effect of the paint on her skin, hair, crown, and scales is very fun. The shine isn’t apparent in a still photo. The ink smeared dreadfully when touched with water or purple paint, but the shimmery colors (the set only includes 3 or 4 shimmery colors) didn’t let it run quite as much. Sort of a controlled run. In the end I liked the smeared ink and used it, and I’m really happy with my whole mistake. I think she’s adorable.
Purple Mermaid Princess Ellis.
Day 109 (Wed April 19)
One of my favorites yet, a simple sketch of Ellis. Sans freckles, I just realized. Uniball Deluxe Micro pen, (the best, most affordable purchase I’ve made this year, if you are looking for a useful drawing tool, check out this link!) and Strathmore 400 watercolor journal.
Below I tried it with a japanese brush pen I have. I did not like the look much, although it looked kind of charcoal-isa which is fun… AND it smeared. Ugh. Also it turned out the ink is VERY NOT waterproof. Like, might as well just be black watercolor paint. Water completely re-activates it. But more on that tomorrow.
I considered it a ruined page. Then turned it into something cool. (-ish) Which I will show you tomorrow!! Can you guess what?
Day 108 (Tues April 18) Easter sketch
My very own art!! No tutorial. Ellis on an Easter egg hunt. Here, her poor little face got messed up when I inked it. But I figured it out later. There were several things I learned from this one that I’ll do differently next time, so it was a good project!
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