Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #15 I'd say that I deliberately set out to create a more muted, almost vintage, feel for this art card, but that's just how it turned out. Other than choosing the purple as the colour for the biggest flower, I really had no plan at all and just picked… Continue reading Luminous bouquet
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #14 There are ten Polkadoodles "darling buds" flower girls in total and I picked up the complete set when they came out. Of course, buying them and actually colouring them are two very different things and I had only actually coloured one of them before making this art card.… Continue reading Daffodil girl
The guest instructor for week two of the Wanderlust "floral" theme was Shawn Petite (website, Instagram, YouTube). I love Shawn's work and regularly watch her YouTube videos, especially the Sunday Inspiration ones. Lovely textured layers of collage papers, modelling paste and acrylic paint all come together to create a wonderfully weathered background for the flowers.… Continue reading Wanderlust: serenity flowers
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #13 Raccoons are mostly grey, metal bins are grey, I figured I might as well do the whole image in greyscale and just make the apple red for a pop of colour. When I picked the words to go with this one, I was originally thinking that he was… Continue reading Raccoon in a bin
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #12 I have a tendency to end up with a lot of contrast and strong colours when I'm colouring on auto-pilot with my Copic markers: the rabbit in the rain is a good example. Don't get me wrong, I do love that style of colouring, it's just that some… Continue reading Meditation
The first week of the Wanderlust "floral" theme and, as usual, we started with the organiser Kasia Avery (website, Instagram). In an ultimately vain attempt to avoid constantly running behind on the class schedule, I decided to temporarily skip the steampunk theme which has some quite time-consuming lessons in it and jump to the Floral… Continue reading Wanderlust: inky flowers
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #11 I wanted to try something a little bit different with this one. There was quite a bit of blank space in the background and that called out for something other than a simple colour fill or even a grass/sky landscape. I decided to have a go at… Continue reading Green fairy
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #10 And at the top of the bookaholic's pile of hair is a kitty cat. I used the same technique for the background texture as on the coneflowers: a piece of kitchen roll moistened with 0 refill dabbed lightly all over. It's a simple way to add subtle but… Continue reading Cat on hair
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #09 I coloured the full version of this digi stamp for the Daily Marker Coloring Challenge blog hop back in 2016. It’s a big image and it was easy to get two ATC-sized sections out of it. This first one focuses on the face and only hints at her… Continue reading Bookaholic
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #08 Another Power Poppy digi stamp; this time it's some simple coneflowers rather than a full bouquet and I kept the colouring simple to match. The only thing I did out of the ordinary was to add texture to the background by dabbing lightly and repeatedly with a small… Continue reading Coneflowers
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #07 For this one, I returned to my default, bold, Copic colouring style, taking extra care with the shading. I wanted to create a rainy feel to the background; I laid down a gradient of three blues and then drew sketchy lines over it in the same colours. I… Continue reading Rainy rabbit
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #06 My other half backed Stephanie Law's Succulent Dragons book on Kickstarter for me last year. The book has a mix of full page and smaller images and this is a section from one of the smaller ones. I'm rather taken with these slightly surreal hares. After I stuck… Continue reading Surreal hares
The last week of the Wanderlust "Patterns" theme and we're back with the organiser Kasia Avery (website, Instagram). It was too much to hope that there wouldn't be any more faces... and as for creating an "abstract self-portrait", well, it's only my determination to have a go at all of the Wanderlust lessons that meant… Continue reading Wanderlust: pattern portrait
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #05 I used the full version of this digi stamp to make a birthday card for my mum last year. I coloured this one without looking back at what I'd done before and it turned out completely different: none of the colour choices or shading patterns are the same.… Continue reading Bee on blackberry flowers
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #04 The Paper Shelter is another reliable creator of interesting digi stamps. I really ought to put together an up-to-date list of suppliers I use; a few have unfortunately closed down in the last couple of years. I added texture to the hair with a sharp coloured pencil, the… Continue reading Beach girl
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