Here is my 2019 Christmas Card.
Outside:
Inside:
drawing
Hearts Mandala
I created the mandala below for the month of February. What happens is February, beside National Pizza Day, Ferris Wheel Day, Chinese New Year (wait, I could have easy created a mandala for these days)? It is the month that Valentine’s Day is observed.
A PDF of this mandala is available on my coloring page, for anyone to download.
It was created and colored in CorelDraw.
Flowers on Bamboo
Below is a drawing I did by hand with Derwent Inktense Pencils and Watercolor pencils on 9″ x 12″ watercolor paper.
After I finished the drawing, I thought it would be a fun page to color. So, I recreated the drawing in CoralDraw. This version was created for letter size paper, therefore the flowers are spaces .75″ apart, instead of the 1″ spacing used on the hand drawing.
I created a black and white version that is available for download on my Coloring Page.
2019 New Years Mandala
Here is my mandala for New Years. It was created in CorelDraw. A PDF coloring version of it is available on my Coloring Page.
A PDF coloring version of it is available on my Coloring Page.
Circle of Flowers
I have added another drawing to my coloring page. The original line drawing was done in 2015 using Corel Draw. I just added color to it over the weekend.
Student Drawing
Each of these drawings were done in 2003 but DeRidder High School students.
I love all the detail that was put into old buildings.
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 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.
