My inspiration for today’s drawing comes for a lace curtain I saw at a museum.
Webby Lace
This is the lace design done in Corel Draw.
The bitmap image colored in Microsoft Paint.
Flower in Lace
Art of Concentration
Indian Flower Two
This is another drawing of a flower inspired by Indian pottery. Done on a Studio Series Artist tile with Faber Castell Pitt Pens and watercolor pencils.
Indian Leaf Flower
This Corel Draw drawing was also inspired by the same flower.
This drawing is available for you to color on the Coloring Page.
Indian Flower Design
The inspiration for today drawing comes from an Indian pottery dish that I saw at a museum. It was done on a white Studio Series Artist Tile with Faber Castell Pitt pens and watercolor.
Indian Flower One
I ran out of time trying to recreate the design on the computer, but I did enjoy coloring what I created.
Mandala Kind of Day
The first mandala is 6.25″ x 6.25″ drawing done with Sargent Glitter Gel Pens. The second mandala was done on a 3.5″ x 3.5″ Studio Series Artist tile using Sakura gel pen and Sargent Neon Gel Pens. The Sakura white gel pen shows up best on black paper. The last drawing was create in Corel Draw, export as a bitmap, and colored in Microsoft Paint.
Mandala – April 15
Dot Swirl
AofC Hexagon Shades
Art of Concentration: Day 14
Let’s relax, create some beautiful pieces, and work on our concentration skills.
The Art of Concentration rules are:
- Draw lines on a page. Straight line, squiggly lines, circles, squares, triangles, stars, it does not matter.
- Color every other section a different color. Start anywhere. Use any color. Typical you will only have a black pen or a pencil, those are fine.
- If you desire, use multiple colors. Sections of the same color can not touch.
Today’s line drawing:
The line drawing are create in Corel Draw which is a great tool for creating anything from scratch. I do not use Photoshop for these drawing, because it is not a photo. After I am happy with the drawing, I export as a Bitmap. It would be time consuming to create each section for coloring in Corel Draw. Microsoft Paint is used to color the bitmap. If I wanted a gradient of colors in each section of the drawing, I would do that in Corel Draw.
Example 1:
Example 2:
Example 3:
All of the line drawing, done by hand, were done 14 days ago, and one was colored each day. It provided me time to work on other projects.
Art of Circles
Click here for a PDF version on today’s line drawing. You can also download any of my line drawing from the Coloring Page.
Art of Concentration: Day 13
Today’s line drawing is made up of hearts.
The Art of Concentration rules are:
- Draw lines on a page. Straight line, squiggly lines, circles, squares, triangles, stars, it does not matter.
- Color every other section a different color. Start anywhere. Use any color. Typical you will only have a black pen, or a pencil, those are fine.
- If you desire, use multiple colors. Sections of the same color can not touch.
My first color choice:
My second color choice:
Today’s hand drawing:
Hearts Apart
You can download a PDF version of the line drawing on the Coloring Page, or click here.
Art of Concentration: Day 12
Another spiral! Why? Because figuring things out, what works and doesn’t work is fun. I have fun drawing spirals and making something of them.
Below is today’s line drawing:
I learned that using two colors with at line drawing was impossible. Three colors would be difficult, not impossible, but fun. The first approach to coloring the line drawing was to color the individual square (or four point stars) with a different set of colors, but still following the rules.
The Art of Concentration rules are:
- Draw lines on a page. Straight line, squiggly lines, circles, squares, triangles, stars, it does not matter.
- Color every other section. Start anywhere. Use any color. Typical you will only have a black pen, or a pencil, those are fine.
- If you desire, use multiple colors. Sections of the same color can not touch.
You probably did not notice, but I tried to use a pattern for the colors. Here is the pattern I choose for the second color drawing. It is easier to show you than explain.
The vertical and horizontal pattern was: pink, blue, and white. Picking a pattern, made it easier to color without having the same color sections touching.
The results:
With the hand drawing, I used the four colors: pink, blue, purple and gray, and changed to a darker color as it got closer to the center.
Around the Spiral
You can download a PDF version of the line drawing from the Coloring Page, or click here.
Art of Concentration: Day 11
Today’s Art of Concentration experiment did not go well. Not well at all. Below is the line drawing. It is a nice line drawing made up of spirals, or swirls, or curls, whatever you would like to call them.
It is impossible to use only two colors in the drawing and still follow the rules. Using three colors is possible, but difficult. Spiral are meant to be continuous.
The Art of Concentration rules are:
- Draw lines on a page. Straight line, squiggly lines, circles, squares, triangles, stars, it does not matter.
- Color every other section. Start anywhere. Use any color. Typical you will only have a black pen, or a pencil, those are fine.
- If you desire, use multiple colors. Sections of the same color can not touch.
The colored drawing came out nice, but there were several restarts. That is what is good with coloring on the computer.
PDF version of the line drawing created in Corel Draw is available for download on the Coloring Page or you can click here.
Art of Concentration: Day 10
For today’s Art of Concentration drawing I decided to go with a more traditional approach. By traditional approach I mean; it was the way I normally drew and colored these type of drawings. They contained either straight lines, squiggly lines, or both.
The Art of Concentration rules are:
- Draw lines on a page. Straight line, squiggly lines, circles, squares, triangles, stars, it does not matter.
- Color every other section. Start anywhere. Use any color. Typical you will only have a black pen, or a pencil, those are fine.
- If you desire, use multiple colors. Sections of the same color can not touch.
The line drawing:
In a meeting, a classroom, or a waiting room, you will typical only have a pen with one color – below is today’s line drawing colored in black and white.
You may be part of the special group that has many different colors pens on hand. The largest box of Crayola Crayon contains 152 different colors. The largest tin of Prismacolor pencils contains 150 different colors. And, it is very easy to fine a set of 100 different color gel pens. Sometimes, I have the urge to use has many different colors a possible in my drawings, like the drawing below.
I messed up today’s hand drawing, then I messed it up again, and then I messed it up a third time. I should have been simple enough, but I was listening to water draining and was wondering why it was so loud. I gave up and turned the tile over and started again. Since today’s theme was traditional, I decided I would do a sample of my normal typical drawing.
Notice the curvy lines. There are several lines that look like the cursive letter “L”. Drawing the cursive letter “L” is a good pattern to repeat on the page. The letter “S” and the music symbol Treble clef are also good to use. Just keep the line flowing from edge to edge.
What I learned today with my mess up, coloring a section with a marker and going over it with a white Sakura gel pens, gave it a nice color.
Sea of Algae
PDF version of the line drawing created in Corel Draw is available for download on the Coloring Page, or click here.
Art of Concentration: Day 9
Today’s Art of Concentration drawing is more typical of the drawing I used to do in meetings and classes. It wasn’t anything too complicated, just some lines and occasionally other objects.
Remember you can do these types of drawing on any size of paper from “Post-It” note size to letter size, or larger. If you create them using ruled paper, you already have some lines premade.
The line drawing:
The Art of Concentration rules are:
- Draw lines on a page. Circles, squares, squiggly lines, it does not matter.
- Color every other section. Start anywhere. Use any color.
- If you desire, use multiple colors. Sections of the same color can not touch.
The first object created was the flower and than squiggly lines added. Notice the top left of the circle in the middle of the page. There are more than two section that are touching. The rule “Section of the same color can not touch” will not work here. To solve that dilemma, I used multiple colors.
The flower petals were done in a deep red and white. The center and background was done in black and white. It doesn’t even look like a circle. That is why I named today’s hand drawing “Squid”. Looking at if after is was done, it looked more like a squid then a flower.
Squid
Squid was done on a black Studio Series Artist tile using Sakura gel pens.
The line drawing was done in Corel Draw and exported as a bitmap to color using Microsoft Paint. I decided to use three colors and black on the second drawing with white line.
Click here to download a PDF version of the line drawing. All of the line drawing are available on the Coloring Page.
