abstract art
A little colouring break
I’ve been busy with black and white line art over the past few days. Seeing so many people colouring artwork in with gay abandon had me hankering for my Polychromos coloured pencils, paper stumps and blending fluid for a while this evening. I drew some designs just for my own personal fun over the weekend and decided to add colour to one of them. Below is the result, the work in progress.
It could take a while to get finished as I have so much line art to do, which is great for me. It is therapeutic, soothing, healing for me and that is just what I need at this point in life.
One thing I could do with an answer to is why do scanners always wash out the colours I have used? I have a Brother A3 printer/scanner, which is great as I’m tending towards using larger paper these days, but try as I might I can’t seem to stop the color washout.
If anyone can give me any advice, help or instructions then that would be grand!
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Busy, busy, busy!
Pens, pencils, rulers, protractors and compasses all busy, busy, busy here! Over half way through Color Me Stress-free’s black and white lineart (artwork for four out of the seven chapters done!). I’m keeping the coloring of the colored samples until all the black and white is done as my big treat – I don’t often get to color in my own artwork these days!
Another news article mention for the Color Me books!
This article appeared on the NorthJersey.com website today:
It’s also been brought to my attention that the books were mentioned in an article in the New York Times today too, though I don’t have a link to that …yet.
I finished this one a day or two ago but couldn’t post it thanks to an internet outage. The background is more colourful than it appears – soft yellows and oranges and pinks.
Happy calendar changeover day to you all!
Tangle of the day for 25th and 26th December 2014
Arty doodle December 23rd 2014
Winter Solstice #2
Another quiet day today, with lots of Lemsip, tissues and art. Had to go out shopping this evening, but the supermarket was thankfully quiet.
Winter Solstice 2014
Happy Solstice to you all!
A time to let go of what limits you in your life’s progress, of what is now done with of what you no longer need, all in order to make space for the new.
I finally had time today to spend on art for pure pleasure for myself. Much of my art of late has been for publishers as wll s in my art journal. Doing this work is really enjoyable, but it has to fit a brief, whereas the work above just flowed from my pen without any thought or form to begin with.
My gift to you…
You, dear reader, can print the black and white artwork below and colour it in, so long as it is for totally personal use – no permission is given for you to use it for any commercial or advertising purposes either in this form or any altered form. The only other proviso is that you enjoy the coloring in!
The original is approx. 8″ square and was drawn on quadrille grid paper with UniPin drawing pens.
Art is the Adventure 