Mixed Media Houses

 

I found Jeannette Vivo Lagasi of Vivo Vintage Designs Tutorials on Pinterest. Her tutorials include so many techniques in styles I enjoy working on.

This piece is in a wonderful style. I love doing whimsical houses, patterning and using numerous supplies!

I drew this piece using a Graphgear 1000 Pentel Pencil and painted it using my Kuretake Gansai Tambi Paint Set on Canson XL 140 lb. watercolor paper. It's on the first page of my new watercolor spiral bound book.

I used Arteza Gouache for window frames and doors. I outlined and made the bricks show up using an "L" shaped line (shadow) using Molotow blackliner pens. Sharpie Creative Markers made patterning easy.

I really love how this piece came out. I'll be working on more of Jeannette's tutorials in the future.

Challenges:

https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2024/09/september-2024-anything-goes.html

https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2024/09/september-2024-anything-goes-w-optional.html 

https://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2025/01/challenge-814.html 

http://2sistersontheblog.blogspot.com/2025/01/1e-reminder-challenge-93.html 

Adorable Couple in Marker

 

I haven't done an alcohol marker drawing in awhile. This one is from a tutorial by Karen Campbell for Awesome Art School. I followed her drawing these characters on Bristol Paper, using my Graphgear 100 Pentel Pencil. When it came to coloring them in, Karen used Ohuhu Markers and I used my Copics. I did my best, but I didn't always pick the closest color. Their skin tones could have been a bit darker.

I love the portrait anyway!

Challenges:

https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2025/01/january-2025-anything-goes-w-optional.html

https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2025/01/challenge12025-january-6th-31st-include.html

https://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2025/01/challenge-814.html 

Cover Girl 1917 in Graphite

 

Two things I enjoy about this drawing were drawing the reference piece by eye with my Graphgear 1000 Pentel pencil and doing it on the Toned Tan sketch paper of my Strathmore book.

The reference is from a 1917 The People's Home Journal, that Karen Campbell picked up at an antique shop. Her Awesome Art School tutorial included using charcoal, but it has never been a method I enjoy. Graphite is my favorite. 

Challenges:

https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2025/01/january-2025-anything-goes-w-optional.html

https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2025/01/challenge12025-january-6th-31st-include.html

https://classicdesignchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/12/classic-design-challenge-12-2024-decjan.html 

https://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2025/01/challenge-814.html

                                           

Mini Cottage Art

 

 

Hubby and I and I took a 4 day trip to the North Georgia mountain town of Ellijay. It's the “Apple Capital of Georgia” and a few made the trip back to the warm and sunny Florida. Although the town is charming and historic, the enjoyable aspect of the trip was being together with our family for a few days. The house decorated for the holidays is large with plenty of places to relax and even games to play. What I loved about our trip was getting to spend lots of time with our 7 year old granddaughter. We painted and sewed together and she's fun to play games with.

 Before we left for our trip, I drew a few mini cottages on watercolor paper. These were inspired by the whimsical drawings of Tracey Talgen Art.

While in Georgia, I worked on two of these cottages experimenting with Prima watercolors, fine line markers and watercolor markers.

 

My granddaughter showed some interest in doing one too. First we had to change the house into a cat house with a bit of signage. Then this little 7 year old colored with her watercolor markers and blended, spreading the color with a damp brush. When the paint was dry she added the fine liner and drew a cat (using her own clay sculpture for a reference).

 

It's always fun to have my granddaughter join me in arting!

 

Challenges: 

https://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2025/01/challenge-814.html

https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2025/01/january-2025-anything-goes-w-optional.html 

https://classicdesignchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/12/classic-design-challenge-12-2024-decjan.html

https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2025/01/challenge12025-january-6th-31st-include.html 

My Last 7 Widdle Women

 

Here are my last three pages of seven women in Karen Campbell's Whimsical Watercolor and How to Draw Series Book 1, Widdle women Edition. Their names are Kool Kat, Unsure Ursula, Zen Zara, Flowy Flora, Happy Helen, Blissful Beth and certainly not least Sassy Sam.

 For these three 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 as Karen says, I used what I have! I followed Karen's step by step details for the women, that were so much fun to work on. It's a fabulous book!

Challenges: 

https://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2024/12/week-8123.html

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

Cottage in Gouache

 

A couple of months ago, I was introduced to tutorials using gouache, in Karen Campbell's Awesome Art School. I love it so much, that I ordered an Artiza Kit full of supplies! When I'm not looking through the school tutorials, I look on Pinterest for more. I enjoy the variety I find to use and learn from them.

I love this "Cottage," which I found to use as a reference, but I could not find the name of the artist or a tutorial. I drew my version in pencil and painted it in my Arteza Gouache Pad, from the original kit. I've added more colors in a variety of brands to that kit.

The following is the original design I found to use as the reference:

 I'm really happy with my own version of this picture.

Challenges:

https://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2024/12/week-8123.html

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

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