Paints Pens-N-Pencils

These two and I wish all a very Happy New Year!

Playing with fonts in the new class "Expressing". Koosje Koene is teaching the first lesson and it is  all about typography. I made my own letters and got creative with the background to distract from the mistakes!

The past few months and through the holidays, I have only been able to sketch in small increments of time. I thought it would be a good time to try some zentangle. You can work on small sections any time and for any length of time. Which was convenient since, I only had a few minutes to spare here and there. The next Sketchbook Skool Klass,"Expressing" has started, and I am ready to get back to sketching more faithfully. And posting. A Halloween Zentangle starting with a stamp in the middle and colored with color pencils. I found that if I am stuck trying to start a page or come up with an idea, a stamp can aid in getting you started. Stamp whatever you have and let it launch your imagination.

Not tea cups like Liz Steel draws, but great practice in finding and losing edges.

     Liz Steel's class Sketching Now Edges began this past week. Our first sketching assignment is a pair of shoes. We practiced using line to define hard edges and then color for surface edges defined by color changes and values. The second part was for an outside object. I found a metal sculpture in a center square of a shopping mall. It was hot out, 98 deg, and humid, so I worked fast and the glare on the metal made it hard to see the edges. I am still not comfortable working out on location, but I am working on it.

This summer two bullfrogs decided to take up residence in our pond. When I went out to the pond today, to check on our fish, one of the frogs was sitting on a rock sunbathing. I went back into the house to get my supplies and carefully set up as close to him as I could to sketch him. He was so accommodating and stayed still for about 20 minutes while I sketched. As I was adding watercolor to him in my sketch, I heard a loud splash and looked up... he was gone. I guess he had had enough..

As seen in InStyle magazine. Since I can't or wouldn't spend the money on them, at least I can draw them!