Spirit Horse in Watercolors

 This Spirit Horse is from a tutorial by Karen Campbell for Awesome Art School. It was drawn with a Graphgear 1000 Pentel Pencil on Canson 140 lb. watercolor paper. I used Prima and Jane Davenport watercolor paints. I used Winsor Newton Gouache for stars and highlights.

This was supposed to be a holiday gift for my husband Sandy, I was so pleased with how it came out that he saw it already! Oh well, at least he loves it!

Challenges:

https://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2024/12/week-811.html

 https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2024/12/december-2024-anything-goes-with.html

 https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2024/12/december-2024-anything-goes-w-optional.html

https://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2024/12/challenge-291.html 

Cottage in the Woods

 

This gouache painting was inspired from a tutorial by Melanie of Visual Mind. I found her on Pinterest. I enjoy working on a variety of her free tutorials.

I drew the design for this piece in my Arteza Gouache Pad and used two brands of Gouache to paint this colorful piece: Holbein and Winsor Newton.

I loved working on this design and making a change to it of my own!

Challenges:

https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2024/12/december-2024-anything-goes-w-optional.html

https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2024/12/december-2024-anything-goes-with.html

https://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2024/12/week-811.html 

http://everybody-art-challenge.blogspot.com/2024/12/569.html 

Celtic Hare in Gouache

 

This Celtic Hare taking a nap is from a gouache tutorial by Lucy Brydon for Awesome Art School. I recently fell in love with painting gouache and enjoy following Lucy's tutorials. So of course I tried this cute bunny.

I used a compass to draw two circles on a page in my Artezia Gouache Pad. I plan to paint another animal on the bottom circle. I used a Pentel Graphgear 1000 pencil to draw the sleepy bunny. As I painted of course the picture changed a bit. I tried to mix my limited paint supply for his colors. Since it was difficult to mix the shades, I decided to make the background one color and mixed a green with a bit of black to make it dark. I followed it up with white plants and trees. I used a dot maker for the ones at the bottom of the painting.

Challenges:

https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2024/12/december-2024-anything-goes-w-optional.html

https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2024/12/december-2024-anything-goes-with.html

https://classicdesignchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/11/classic-design-challenge-11-2024-novdec.html 

https://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2024/12/week-810.html 

Two Pages Six Widdle Women

 

These six women are from tutorials in Karen Campbell's book, "Whimsical Watercolor and How to Draw Series Widdle Women Edition Book 1."

For these two pages of women I used Fabriano hot press watercolor paper. The girls were drawn using a Graphgear 1000 Pentel Pencil. I added shadow with a Blackwing-Matte Pencil and a blending stump. I painted them with an assortment of palettes from Prima and Jane Davenport. I used Molotow Blackliners for their outlines and for small colorful detail I used Master's Touch Fineliner Markers. Highlights were done with a Gelly Roll Pen. There are detailed suggestions of what to use for the girls, but Karen also says use what you have!

I followed Karen's step by step details for the women, who's names are Adorable Ali, Lil ol' Linda, Giddy-Up Gail, Sweet Sara, Bookworm Wendy, Quiet Quinn. They were so much fun to work on. I'll be back to paint more girls from this fabulous book.

Challenges: 

https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2024/12/december-2024-anything-goes-w-optional.html

https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2024/12/december-2024-anything-goes-with.html 

https://morgansartworld.blogspot.com/2024/12/morgans-artworld-challenge-83.html

https://classicdesignchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/11/classic-design-challenge-11-2024-novdec.html 

Fairy Witch Mixed Media

 

I've done some really cute fairies. I wanted to put something new on a page in my Strathmore Toned Tan sketch book. Well it's a Fairy Witch, which was a delight to work on. I enjoyed following Karen Campbell's tutorial for Awesome Art School. I loved drawing this fairy and using a number of different pens and pencils!

This is what I used to work on this Fairy Witch:

China Markers (1 black, 1 white)

Sharpie White Paint Marker

Pentel Pocket Brush Pen

Molotow Blackliner

Sharpie Creative Markers (1 black, 1 white)

I'm so happy with how this piece looks in my sketch book!

Challenges: 

https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2024/12/december-2024-anything-goes-w-optional.html

https://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2024/11/challenge-290.html 

https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2024/12/december-2024-anything-goes-with.html

https://morgansartworld.blogspot.com/2024/12/morgans-artworld-challenge-83.html 

Street Scene in Gouache

 

I've been enjoying the variety of art tutorials to be found at Karen Campbell's Awesome Art School. I've learned new art techniques and mediums that I never knew about.

I recently painted a number of gouache pieces and added supplies, growing my collection. Pinterest has a lot of tutorials using gouache. For this colorful street scene in gouache, I combined tutorials by Ellen Crimi-Trent and Melanie from her Visual Mind Channel. From Ellen's, I was inspired to use several buildings. From Melanie's I used the garden hedge with a line of flowers.

I drew this colorful scene with my Graphgear 1000 Pentel Pencil, on my Arteza Gouache Pad.The scene is painted in Holbein Gouache.

This was a fun piece to work on and I love that it was put together with my own ideas!

Challenges:

https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2024/12/december-2024-anything-goes-w-optional.html

https://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2024/11/challenge-290.html 

https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2024/12/december-2024-anything-goes-with.html

https://morgansartworld.blogspot.com/2024/12/morgans-artworld-challenge-83.html 

Folk Art Unicorn in Gouache

 

This Folk Art Unicorn is from a tutorial by Lucy Brydon for Awesome Art School. I enjoy Lucy's tutorials. I recently started working in gouache and love the look and style of Lucy's tutorials!

Lucy displayed several unicorn designs to use for this piece and I chose the same one she worked on in the tutorial. I drew mine using my mechanical pencil in my Arteza Gouache Pad. I used a couple of brands from my collection of gouache tubes: Arteza, Winsor Newton and Holbein. I included some Kingart Metallic watercolor paint.

I'm really happy how this piece came out!

Challenges:

https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2024/11/november-2024-anything-goes-w-optional.html

https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2024/11/november-2024-anything-goes-woptional.html

http://everybody-art-challenge.blogspot.com/2024/11/568.html 

https://polkadoodle.blogspot.com/2024/11/wk-47-card-making-paper-craft-challenge.html