Over the summer, I decided to stain and paint some of the wood items that was in my to do pile. I purchased the box from Walmart. It was stained with Minwax Red Mahoney. I sprayed the entire box with Minwax Polyurethane because if I made a mistake on painting the box, the paint would not soaked into the wood and I could wipe the paint off before it dried. I painted the box using chalk paint.
I did not paint the inside of the box. It was stained and sealed using polyurethane.
This drawing of tiny flowers was done with pencils.
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.
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