april's art

Sunday, July 26, 2020

Here's your creative prompt for the day! I found this in a book that I have and thought it looked like fun and it teaches you about creating depth. Using watercolors and starting with maybe #12 watercolor brush, paint light-colored ovals on a piece of watercolor paper in the colors of your choice. I think i was thinking of zinnias and sky. :) Then continue with another darker shape of the same hue inside the first oval with a smaller brush, and then another shape inside that one, darker hue yet, and with a smaller brush. When all is dry, finally make these small marks in the negative space with either a small brush and black watercolor or a brush pen. I used a Tom Bow brush pen.

To me, it was meditative and calming. Of course, most of you know how I love stippling.

Saturday, July 25, 2020

So, here we are all at home, mostly anyway. decided to resurrect my old blog and give that a try to connect with my classes and whoever is interested.

This is just a little prompt that I send out last week. Making a design with snipped shapes of all different papers. Wonky or not. I seem to like the wonky for this because to me it shows interest and action.

And then...Collage or illustrate your day today. This was yesterday...Grrrrrrr. And they are on the larger index cards so I will attach them to a page in my journal.

I am rusty with entering the things I want on here but I'll struggle along and hope it comes back to me.