Sale on Brushes

 

I bought a very cute clip-art digital file from Angelina Print on Etsy. One cute girl artist is in several poses offering me lot of reference material to inspire my drawing and painting skills. I drew her with a Graphgear Pentel Pencil in my Canson XL watercolor sketch book. She was fun to draw and make a few changes. I used a Micron Pen to outline the girl and painted her with Jane Davenport Watercolors. I combined white Holbein Artists' Gouache with grey watercolors for the girls' hair.

There was a sale at the local crafts shop on paint brushes! I bought a clip-art digital file from InspireDesignsPrint on Etsy, where this girl found the perfect watercolor brushes!

I'll be doing more of this girl in other poses practicing my drawing and painting skills. It was so fun!

Challenges: 

 https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2026/08/august-2026-anything-goes-w-optional.html 

https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2026/08/challenge-202608-anything-goes.html 

https://craftygalscornerchallenges.blogspot.com/2026/08/challenge-279-anything-goes-woptional.html 

https://creativeinspirationchallenges.blogspot.com/2026/08/creative-inspiration-challenges-41.html 

Cat in the Weeds

 

This "Cat in the Weeds," is from a tutorial by Karen Campbell for Awesome Art School. I used my Graphgear 1000 Pentel Pencil to draw the image on Fabriano hot press watercolor paper. I outlined the image with a Micron Pen and added the random colors with Jane Davenport watercolors.

I love how these loose paintings come out!

Challenges: 

 https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2026/08/august-2026-anything-goes-w-optional.html 

https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2026/08/challenge-202608-anything-goes.html 

https://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2026/08/challenge-856.html 

https://paperfundaychallenges.blogspot.com/2026/08/august-2026-challenge-90-anything-goes.html 

Little Girl With Paint Brush

 

This cutie is part of my child artist digital file from Etsy. The file is from ArtOutrageos. I used a Graphgear 1000 Pentel Pencil to drew her in my Canson Watercolor Book. I outlined the image of the "Little Girl With Paint Brush," with a Micron Pen and painted her with Jane Davenport Watercolors.

 She was all alone on the page and needed a background. I drew one inspired by a free template offered from Artsydee.com. I painted this background with Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolors.

This  page in my book was a lot of fun to do. I'll be doing more!

Challenges: 

 https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2026/08/august-2026-anything-goes-w-optional.html 

https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2026/08/challenge-202608-anything-goes.html 

https://creativecrafterschallenge.blogspot.com/2026/08/challenge-103.html 

https://creativeinspirationchallenges.blogspot.com/2026/08/creative-inspiration-challenges-41.html 

Wizard Frog

 

This "Wizard Frog," is from a tutorial by Karen Campbell and Lucy Brydon for Awesome Art School. I used a Graphgear  Pentel Pencil to draw this frog in my Canson  XL Watercolor Sketch book.

I used a blending stump to darken around the circles of his  eyes. I painted him using Craft Manor Pearl Paint watercolors and Jane Davenport watercolors. I used a Micron Pen to outline this guy and a bit of Holbein Artist's Gouache for the highlights.

I enjoyed blending the Crafty Manor paints in the wizard's hat. The two colors shine so well together! So do the orange with the purple in the cape and scarf. The wizard has a really nice shinny green skin tone from that same Crafty Manor Pearl Paint! This "Wizard Frog was so much fun to paint!

I'm so glad I decided to use the Craft Manor Pearl watercolor paint on this painting!

Challenges: 

 https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2026/08/august-2026-anything-goes-w-optional.html 

https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2026/08/challenge-202608-anything-goes.html 

https://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2026/08/challenge-855.html 

https://creativeinspirationchallenges.blogspot.com/2026/08/creative-inspiration-challenges-41.html 

 

Tea Towel Catz

 This "Tea Towel Catz" painting is from a tutorial by Karen Campbell on Youtube. She was inspired by a tea towel she found in an antique shop!

I drew and painted this piece following Karen's step by step instructions. I painted it on Fabriano hot press watercolor paper, mostly using Jane Davenport Watercolors. The one exception is the black cat. When I painted him like the others in watercolor, the whole picture looked really dull. As soon as I painted that cat, a second time, using Bombay Black India Ink the whole picture woke up!  

The catz are detailed and outlined in Molotow Fineliner. The white white whiskers and highlights are in Gelly Roll Pencil. I used a Blackwing Pencil and a paper stump for shading.

I showed this painting to my husband this morning and he loved it!

Challenges: 

 https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2026/08/august-2026-anything-goes-w-optional.html 

https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2026/08/challenge-202608-anything-goes.html 

https://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2026/08/challenge-855.html 

https://tuesdaytaggers.blogspot.com/2026/08/make-it-colourful.html 

Six Wee Wing Things Pages 1 and 2

 

 

I'm working on Karen Campbell's book "Wee Wing Things," from the "Whimsical Watercolor and How to Draw Series. These winged characters are a delightful challenge. There are 18 lessons in this book and I plan to do them all. As I finish the pages, I'll show them two pages at a time.

Here are the first six characters on two sheets of Fabriano 140 lb. hot press watercolor paper. I drew each one with a Graphgear 1000 Pentel Pencil, following Karen Campbell's direction. They are painted with Jane Davenport Watercolors and are shaded with a Blackwing Pencil and a paper blending stump. The black outline and details were done with Micron Pens and the highlights were done with a Gelly Roll Pen. 

I followed Karen's step by step details for each image. Page 1 characters are Howdy Hal, Baby Beaky and Buzzy Betty.  Page 2 characters are Oh Hey, Blue Jay, Loopy Larry and Sweet Baby Screech.

They were a delight to work on. I'm looking forward to working on the next six!

Challenge: 

https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2026/08/august-2026-anything-goes-w-optional.html 

https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2026/08/challenge-202608-anything-goes.html 

https://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2026/07/challenge-327.html 

https://sendasmile4kidschallenge.blogspot.com/2026/08/sas4kids-anything-goes-4-kids.html 

The Lassie and Her Godmother

This mixed media piece was inspired by "The Lassie and Her Godmother," a Norwegian fairy tale. The tutorial is by Angela Kennedy for A Year of Magic and Fairy Tales.

I drew this piece with a Graphgear 1000 Pentel Pencil in a Canson XL watercolor 140 lb. sketchbook. I followed Angela on the video and used the template provided to help me draw the window and door frame. I used Winsor and Newton and also Jane Davenport watercolors to paint the inside of the frame. I used salt while the watercolors were wet. When the colors were dry, I used Daler Dowey Acrylic Ink to paint the frame. After the frame was dry, I added the sun and moon in Fine Tec Pearlescent watercolors.

Again I watched Angela on video draw and paint the girl as I drew her on a piece of 5x7" Canson watercolor paper and used a blending stump for shading on her facial features. I painted the girl in watercolors and used a Micron Pen for the hair strands. After I cut her out, I used a Prismacolor Pencil on the edge of her hair. Then I adhered the girl to the painted background.

I was so surprised that this piece came out so well. The thing that helped was using the frame template for my reference! I hate drawing straight lines and using a ruler and was sure I would mess it up!

Challenges: 

https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2026/08/august-2026-anything-goes-w-optional.html 

https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2026/08/challenge-202608-anything-goes.html 

https://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2026/07/challenge-327.html 

https://sendasmile4kidschallenge.blogspot.com/2026/08/sas4kids-anything-goes-4-kids.html