Alcohol markers are my third favorite medium, after watercolors and inks. Look up some tutorials on getting started in shading and go from there. They are easy to use and fun.
I'm about to go through the same process of getting everything reorganized. I have bottles of ink and containers of g-nibs scattered throughout my supplies. I would lose them and then buy more repeatedly.
Yep, that's part of my problem - that, and for years it was my kids' go-to gift, give Mom random art supplies. Which means some of these have sentiment attached to them.
I planned to find tutorials, because alcohol markers and I have just been awkward together.
I love watercolors best, and inks, and want to make my own inks again soon. I'll also be sketching as I want to get back to some observational drawing to hone skills that have gotten rusty. I have a ton of colored pencils as well.
Colored pencils were the thing I never took to. I have them, but they don't give me the same satisfaction as black ink on white paper, nor the speed of coloring markers and watercolor give me.
One advantage of watercolor pencils if you pre sketch when water coloring; if you use them, instead of graphite pencils to sketch in your rough outlines when doing watercolors, they just blend in when you add your paint leaving no lines to erase.
I feel for you! My husband and I live in a very small house that has no storage - no basement, no attic - and we combined households 3 years ago when we married, so we are wall to wall boxes, furniture, books - stuff. Its maddening to me because its hard to clean around, hard to find things, and its just cluttered looking. I'm planning to get a dumpster in July and start pitching both things that the rats in the outsheds have ruined, to old Christmas decorations I have not used in years, to forcing myself to downsize clothes and craft supplies in the house.
It won't solve all our size issues (we really just need a bigger house or at least the ability to build a garage with at least 2 rooms above it), but it will help. I just wish I had a craft room where I could keep my sewing machine, neatly store my fabric and threads and needles and paints and all the things that goes along with my sewing endeavors and not have to keep piling up the kitchen table....
I wound up with this lovely room when my son moved out at the beginning of the year - then he moved back for a few months, and we had house guests, and life was happening. I'm finally fulfilling years of dreams and frankly it's a little overwhelming for some reason (as I laugh at myself). So hopefully decluttering will help with that feeling.
Sarra Cannon has a notebook challenge that I watch monthly. The basis of which is to take old(er) notebooks, planners, stickers, pens/markers/highlighters, and use them for something in the coming month. Sometimes they add to notebooks in use. Sometimes they just don't work the way she wanted. Sometimes she realizes that it isn't something she loves anymore, and then she gives them away on her channel. I've learned a lot about notebooks and stationary supplies!
I learned to draw with graphite, and then colored pencils, so they still hold one of the highest places in my heart. Ink/pen came next. I've tried a bunch of other things, but never to the same skill level as my CPs.
I'm getting ready to dig into my "beauty room" as I've been calling it. It holds my sewing, crafting, art, makeup, jewelry making, nail supplies, art supplies, leather making supplies, and a huge old wood stove, in a room that is maybe 8x8 if you squint (the wood stove takes up about 1/4 of the room) And has become a depository of boxes and junk and stuff over the last 3 months while going through "Life stuff". So, I'm needing/wanting to do the same thing, sort, file, re-arrange (not much I can do there, but a little) and make it usable again.
Lots of great minds (and creative ones!) here, thinking alike!
A look at your studio area, I just turned and looked at mine and, honestly laughed out loud.
Compared to mine, yours is neat, pristine, exceptionally well organized!
I can find my crow's quill dip pen nibs and the India ink quite quickly though. ;-)
& yep, do it daily.! I just looked back, at when i was doing daily sketches and found this from 2016 a doodle I did of a dragon with a girl tattoo ; "OK, an idea for a rather or slightly humorous title takeoff , Dragon with the girl tattoo, flicked across my mind so I did this quick doodle on scrap paper. On a whim, out of idle curiosity, after doing the doodle I did a google search and found there is actually a book, The Dragon With The Girl Tattoo, by a guy named Adam Roberts for sale on Amazon! oh well.... Ink on 8 1/2 by 11 inch scrap paper."
Alcohol markers are my third favorite medium, after watercolors and inks. Look up some tutorials on getting started in shading and go from there. They are easy to use and fun.
I'm about to go through the same process of getting everything reorganized. I have bottles of ink and containers of g-nibs scattered throughout my supplies. I would lose them and then buy more repeatedly.
Yep, that's part of my problem - that, and for years it was my kids' go-to gift, give Mom random art supplies. Which means some of these have sentiment attached to them.
I planned to find tutorials, because alcohol markers and I have just been awkward together.
I love watercolors best, and inks, and want to make my own inks again soon. I'll also be sketching as I want to get back to some observational drawing to hone skills that have gotten rusty. I have a ton of colored pencils as well.
Colored pencils were the thing I never took to. I have them, but they don't give me the same satisfaction as black ink on white paper, nor the speed of coloring markers and watercolor give me.
One advantage of watercolor pencils if you pre sketch when water coloring; if you use them, instead of graphite pencils to sketch in your rough outlines when doing watercolors, they just blend in when you add your paint leaving no lines to erase.
I've been meaning to buy some watercolor pencils. :D
1920s car
Cattle grazing
Steaming pie/bread/soup what have you
Fox with goose legs all dangling down oh
Hopefully this meets simple 😅
Yes, thank you!
I loved your art in the October series and in the recent RacPress anthologies. I'm looking forward to seeing what you create. 🙂
I need to make marks on things with other things.
Yes you do.
The best views are from the point of no return.
Tiger and lamb, lying down together.
Lion pacing, looking over his shoulder.
Mug full of 'T's, of various fonts, sizes and cases.
Cats and flowers
Damp dragon
Cat and coffee
I feel for you! My husband and I live in a very small house that has no storage - no basement, no attic - and we combined households 3 years ago when we married, so we are wall to wall boxes, furniture, books - stuff. Its maddening to me because its hard to clean around, hard to find things, and its just cluttered looking. I'm planning to get a dumpster in July and start pitching both things that the rats in the outsheds have ruined, to old Christmas decorations I have not used in years, to forcing myself to downsize clothes and craft supplies in the house.
It won't solve all our size issues (we really just need a bigger house or at least the ability to build a garage with at least 2 rooms above it), but it will help. I just wish I had a craft room where I could keep my sewing machine, neatly store my fabric and threads and needles and paints and all the things that goes along with my sewing endeavors and not have to keep piling up the kitchen table....
I wound up with this lovely room when my son moved out at the beginning of the year - then he moved back for a few months, and we had house guests, and life was happening. I'm finally fulfilling years of dreams and frankly it's a little overwhelming for some reason (as I laugh at myself). So hopefully decluttering will help with that feeling.
Sarra Cannon has a notebook challenge that I watch monthly. The basis of which is to take old(er) notebooks, planners, stickers, pens/markers/highlighters, and use them for something in the coming month. Sometimes they add to notebooks in use. Sometimes they just don't work the way she wanted. Sometimes she realizes that it isn't something she loves anymore, and then she gives them away on her channel. I've learned a lot about notebooks and stationary supplies!
I learned to draw with graphite, and then colored pencils, so they still hold one of the highest places in my heart. Ink/pen came next. I've tried a bunch of other things, but never to the same skill level as my CPs.
I'm getting ready to dig into my "beauty room" as I've been calling it. It holds my sewing, crafting, art, makeup, jewelry making, nail supplies, art supplies, leather making supplies, and a huge old wood stove, in a room that is maybe 8x8 if you squint (the wood stove takes up about 1/4 of the room) And has become a depository of boxes and junk and stuff over the last 3 months while going through "Life stuff". So, I'm needing/wanting to do the same thing, sort, file, re-arrange (not much I can do there, but a little) and make it usable again.
Lots of great minds (and creative ones!) here, thinking alike!
Gingerbread man running away while his friend sourdough with a bad attitude stands his ground.
In my head Sourdough has a wheeled jar to get around in.
That sounds like Oscar the Grouch from Sesame Street. 🙂
A look at your studio area, I just turned and looked at mine and, honestly laughed out loud.
Compared to mine, yours is neat, pristine, exceptionally well organized!
I can find my crow's quill dip pen nibs and the India ink quite quickly though. ;-)
& yep, do it daily.! I just looked back, at when i was doing daily sketches and found this from 2016 a doodle I did of a dragon with a girl tattoo ; "OK, an idea for a rather or slightly humorous title takeoff , Dragon with the girl tattoo, flicked across my mind so I did this quick doodle on scrap paper. On a whim, out of idle curiosity, after doing the doodle I did a google search and found there is actually a book, The Dragon With The Girl Tattoo, by a guy named Adam Roberts for sale on Amazon! oh well.... Ink on 8 1/2 by 11 inch scrap paper."
Salsa and sex...
sorry it's what crawled out of my head and it won't go away
(and the above is the entire prompt!)
together. Hmmm ok, challenge accepted.