pen drawings

We have libraries again!

So I took advantage of ours, and got out:

 Painting Your Favorite Animals in Pen, Ink and Watercolor

Pretty neat book. 

I took a fancy to the pen drawings, and decided to copy some of them.

Here are my results:

A rabbit...

And a bird!

I drew them both with a Sakura Micron pen (0.30 line width). 

I enjoyed drawing them so much, that now I'm working on a cat!

I've tried many times to capture a cat's personality, and have never succeeded, so we will see how this one turns out...

and more paintings...

Just a few watercolors from recently.

A tiger..

 

Not quite realistic, but cute, all the same.

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A duck swimming...

I liked the idea for the water, but I'll need to work on it a bit more before it looks quite right.

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And my personal favorite,

 a duckling in a cup!

(seeing a theme?) 

I'll try to post again soon!

:)

shoe makeover

Sorry about the lack of posts...
we have been traveling, and I let the blogging slip.

:(

Anyway, I am back with another post!

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So....my mom just gave me an old dress of hers. The fabric was beautiful! 

and...

I had this OLD pair of canvas shoes.

 Let's just say they looked their age. Which isn't saying much.

They were practically falling apart.

So I decided to try covering them with fabric, a technique which I saw a while ago.

I cut two scraps of the old dress, one for each shoe. 

Then, I pulled out the old faithful Elmer's glue and started in, coating the whole shoe with glue, sticking the cloth on, and coating some more.  Then I cut edges and folded the fabric into the shoe's hole.

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 After a night or two, they finally dried. 

 :P

Yes, these shoes won't hold up long in the rain. 

Actually, they didn't hold up long just walking around on a sunny day. 

But if you used Tacky, (which I didn't happen to have) it might be a different story!

(you can see in this picture how dirty and old the shoes were...)

Anyway, they were fun for a while.

If you ever need a different colored pair of shoes and don't want to spend the money, try this!

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watercolor birds

whew...

it's been a long time since I posted.

:/

but now, school is finally out!!!!

so (hopefully...) I'll have more time to post! 

:D

I'll post a couple of pictures of some recent paintings I did:

A toucan...

titmouse...

 

and flamingo!

 

Now I'm off to paint some more...

:)

watercolor animals

Another batch of watercolor paintings!
I was inspired by some paintings I saw on Etsy by Dimdi.

Anyway...
I painted a bunch of animals...
 here are some of them!

A dolphin...

a chick...  

a turtle...

 a hedgehog...

and a hummingbird!

I think so far, the turtle is my favorite!

I've been painting some more too, so I'll post a few others soon.

Starry Night

So, 

I finally got around to posting about my latest art project.

I had to copy Van Gogh's Starry Night.

His:

 Mine:

 Here are a few pics of detail:

The moon...

The hills and wind...

and the church!

It was a fun project to work on.

I used oil pastels rather than paint, so the picture has a little different look than the original.

But on the whole, I was happy with the finished piece!

 I probably won't post for a while, because I'm leaving on a trip soon!

copying Monet

Sorry for the lack of posts...

;)

I had a great trip to Subic for a soccer tournament over spring break. Our team placed second!

Read more about it here: soccer tournament

Anyways...

For art a few weeks ago, I had to copy a painting by Monet.

Here is the painting I chose:

We used to have it hanging up in our house.

Here is my duplicate:

It's ok... 

The sky looks a lot less neon in real life!

I had fun trying to copy it.

But...

I was using watercolors.

They are really hard to layer.

:P

So the poppies turned out looking like washed out blobs.

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I'm actually copying another picture right now... Van Gogh's "Starry Night"! 

I'll post about it soon.