The parts for this tiny vase have been laying in my craft area for a long time, and I finally got around to assembling flower arrangement. It was made with left over Sculpey clay and baked in the oven. I sprayed the arrangement with polyacrylic varnish. The flower arrangement is approximately 4″ tall.
I spent some time creating crosses from polymer clay, which was left over from all of the other polymer clay projects.
First the pretty crosses:
The difficult cross:
Folding clay and braiding clay is a little bit challenging.
Interesting Crosses:
The weird ones:
Do You See the Butterflies?
Today’s line drawing is made up of hearts.
The Art of Concentration rules are:
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.
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:
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.
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.
The ability to create something beautiful is a wonderful experience.
The Art of Concentration rules are:
What started out as a page with a mess of lines, can turn into something beautiful. Here is the line drawing from today. If you look closely, you will see some circles.
First, the line drawing was colored using just black.
Next, I colored the line drawing using four colors. Remember the rule, the same color can not touch each other. If the colors were placed differently, it could had a completely different look. See how different it looks from the black and white version.
Here is the hand drawn version:
Circle Mess
Sometimes, when the black lines gets close, you will need to assume the blank space between the lines, e.g. lower right corner.
Click here for to download a PDF version of the line drawing. PDF copies of the line drawings are available on the Coloring Page.
The Art of Concentration can be a game, and it can a experience in the creation of art. The purpose is to help you focus while creating a masterpiece.
The rules are:
Circles and Swirls is probably one of the easiest, even though it may look complicated. Today, was the first day, I did not turn the tile over and start again on the reverse side.
This is a fun line drawing. For today’s coloring, I decided to use the same line drawing to create two pieces.. One, I did in gray scale. The other was colored in shades of red. Yes, I believe pink to be a shade of red.
The grayscale version appears to me that everything is falling into a funnel. Where the shades of red piece, has a different effect. Both were created in Corel Draw, export as a bitmap, and colored in Microsoft Paint.
My hand drawn piece was done on a Studio Series Artist tile with brush marker and a Micron pen.
Swirl to Purple
Click here to download a PDF copy of today’s Circles and Swirl. It is also available on the Coloring Page.
Yesterday, I designed an Easter Egg using Tinkercad. Today, I printed the Easter Egg. Creating the Egg in Tinkercad is easy. They have a egg object. Hollowing out the egg is easy; copy egg, reduce the size, make it a hole, align the solid egg with the hole egg, and group.
Making the two egg halves with the crack was more complicated than making the chick. The chick is two circles for the body, two circles for the eyes, two flatten and stretched trapezoid for the wings, the heart shape for the head, and Tinkercad’s chicken foot object for the feet.
To see how I created the crack in the egg, check it out here. Note: I am working on other cool chicks, so the design my change.
I probably could have made the chicken bigger, maybe I will.
The egg was printed on Ultimaker 2+ printer. I read that beta version of the Cura Software allows more control over supports. Yay!
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