I have “played” around with watercolors in other art projects, but here is my first flower done in watercolor. Now, I guess I should do a study of how to use watercolors.
It was done on a 5″ x 7″ paper using Derwent Watercolor pencils and a water brush.
This painting was done on a 5″x5″ canvas. It started out as a pour painting, but the blue paint took over the painting. After it dried, for about a week, put a mandala on top of the fluid painting using metallic acrylic paint.
Mandala 027
I believe that the Columbine flower species in very interesting. It appears to be two flowers in one with deep dark spots flowing outward from the center.
The drawing was done with Prismacolor pencils.
I was going to make the flower more detailed, but after I drew in the leaves I thought in looked good.
There are 25 circles which makes this flower drawing. It was colored in a pattern. Can you tell what the pattern was?
The drawing was done on a Studio Series Artist tile with Faber Castell Pitt Pen and Prismacolor pencils.
The pattern was two part: Areas that do not overlap, were not colored; and the lighter shades of colors were connected.
My current adventure in using pastels.
Today’s design inspiration comes from a saddle. Yes, the thing you sit on when you ride a horse. No, I did not ride a horse.
Saddle with a Twist
I started with creating the drawing below in Corel Draw. The saddle looked like the design was punched into it, so I tried to add depth. The line drawing is available for download on the Coloring page. I have increased the available drawing size from 3.5″ to 7″ because of the detail.
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.
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:
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.
I must be crazy for drawing so many lines on a page and than coloring them. And, on top of it all, doing two drawings. I must be crazy. However, they were so much fun.
That is probably another rule of Art of Concentration – have fun. Enjoy what you are doing.
The Art of Concentration rules are:
The first drawing was a small drawing. It has a simple flower in the middle with a bunch of lines going through it.
There are some many colors that could be added to this line drawing. The first example started out as a simple black and white, but I could not leave it as that. The gray background the flower jump off the page.
The colored version is very busy, it draws your eye all around the drawing. It reminds me of a out country kitchen pattern.
Below is the hand drawing of the x-treme flower. It was done on a Studio Series Artist tile with Faber Castell Pitt Pens and Crayola markers.
Boxed Flower
Even though this Mandala started out as a sketch, I thought I could not do it justice on paper, so I put it in Corel Draw, increase the size to 8.5″ squared, and drew circles to the extreme.
From the center, a beautiful flower appeared. There are so many way this could be colored, so many possibilities. After creating a bitmap and using Microsoft Paint to color it, below is the results at my first attempt to color the Mandala. The black background made the color more vibrant.
AofC Mandala
PDF versions of the today’s line drawings are available on the Coloring Page for downloading. Starting with today, I will put the newest drawings at the top of the page.
