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I’m back! (With more art)

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Well, hello there! It’s been a while since I posted, I know. A bajillion things have happened since then. (That sounds like a big number because it is. Bajillion. It’s way big. But maybe slightly fewer than an actual bajillion occurred.) Also, a lot of ART has occurred (yay, me!) especially the sketchy kind… so maybe it’s better to just start where I am instead of trying to show it ALL to you today. So, here is today’s post. A piece ‘commissioned’ by the Southeastern Newfoundland Club (near and dear to my heart) I’m super proud of this piece!! I will list my supplies here, and also links where I can. Just know that I am in the Amazon Associates program, and if you purchase from Amazon using their links, I receive a very small benefit. (It does not cost you extra, and I appreciate your support! But always shop around. I only link supplies I really enjoy, and try to find the best price at the time, but their prices can fluctuate quite noticeably) Products I used:

-A.Gallo watercolors. (Check out her site if you are interested … I love her paint. She offers it maybe once every month or two and the day it goes on sale I buy a little. And a brush. 🙂

–Faber-Castell Pitt Artist pens… my new favorites. (I did not know they were India Ink! So nice and dark… and lightfast… and WATERPROOF! And the tips seem to hold up better than microns!)

-Fluid 12″x12″ hot press “Easy-block” watercolor paper (this paper is working well for me so far, but has a definite learning curve for me (I think hot press vs cold press is the thing). I’m not posting a link yet because I haven’t decided about it. But I do enjoy Fluid blocks.)

Soon this will be available for anyone to order from their website! I will update with a link once I have one. All purchases made would support the Southeastern Newfoundland Club.

I’d love to know what you think? It’s a bunch of newfies on their way to their water test. Or just a day of swimming and boating fun? I think it’s pretty cute!

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Early Christmas Gifts… sketched!

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I have four sisters, and one lives in another country. She has been visiting this month, so we decided to exchange our sister gifts (which we do with my mother as well, so six of us total) now while she is visiting, instead of waiting until Christmas. I sketched things on the front and back covers of a notebook for them, trying to find something that would interest them.

I did them so one side can be written in, and flip the book over, write in the other side… two notebooks in one! But… really it was because I did the first one upside down accidentally. It all worked out in the end.

For my mother, who loves birds (and these wrens really do sit like this!!):

For the sisters, by age (I’m youngest) She likes Emily Dickinson, so I just did quotes:

One loves roses:

One has starfish in her decor, and has an ice cream business:

One is a JMU fanatic, having graduated from there, will be moving to the mountains, and likes bluebirds:

 

I know it has seemed like I haven’t done much since “Inktober”, and I certainly haven’t posted often… but I wanted to show you that I had done SOMETHING artistic recently!

Friday Jan 26, 2018- a bit of Winnie the Pooh Mail (the ‘reveal’)

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A pen & ink bookmark I sketched for a Winnie the Pooh themed swap I was in earlier. I drew one image on marker paper, then copied it onto watercolor paper and added color with caran d’ache museum aquarelle watercolor pencils. (I actually made 2 colored bookmarks, sent to two people, but I forgot to photograph them before I had packaged the first one up!)  I used my xyron machine to laminate them, and decorated the envelopes a bit. Upcycled security envelopes folded inside out provided interesting backgrounds. I love swaps like this! (Yay, swap-bot.com!!)

Day 128 (mon 5/8) Feline lines.

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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. 🙂

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Day 37: sketching

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Just a quick sketch of a photo from our walk today on the Nolan Trail, looking up through the trees, in a journal I’ll be sending off to a swap-bot friend. Goodbye, sweet Little Tree Sketch! I’ll miss you!

Notebook paper, uniball deluxe micro pen, copic markers N2 and N4.

 

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Day 20:pen and ink sketch. With cat.

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Just an ink sketch of dandelions. But they are one of my favorite things. And Slightly was being a real attention hound. 🙂 Which means I took like 20 pics of one sketch because I thought he was full of cuteness.

 

Actual drawing, no cat:

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Another day I think I’ll color it in.

Day 17:A Slightly Favorite

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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’ 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.