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!
artwyrd
Arty endeavours for 27th December 2014
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.
Starting an art journal
For a long, long while I’ve wanted to keep an art journal. However, I’ve been puzzled and confused and not sure what to do with it.
Yesterday, I decided the only way to find out how to do it or what to do with it was to just do it, and to use it as a way to experiment with media/techniques I don’t usually use (certainly when I’m doing the black and white line art for the various publishers I’ve done/doing work for).
It’s actually quite fun. I’ve found a way to make use of the sheets of Gelli printed patterns which aren’t much use for anything else as I’m playing with the Gelli plate(s). I’m using Tim Holtz’s Distress inks with sponges and home-made stamps/texture plates too.
It’s also a way for me to combine words and art, something I’ve never really been happy 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.
Untitled artwork 9Nov2014
Fineliner pen and coloured pencils on paper. A little less than A5 in size. A break from artwork being done for Michael O’Mara Books.
Good news is that some people in the UK have received their copies of Color Me Calm ahead of the 27th Nov release date Amazon have on their website. Woohoo!
Brightly colourful
Finally! I manage to stay awake long enough on a weekend to colour this one in! School has been wiping me out. I have been drawing outlines for a short while in the evenings, but I certainly don’t have the time I used to. As I am more alert than I have been for a while, I hope to get more art done today.
I really needed to do some art too. It relaxes and calms me. Four weeks back at work after a prolonged absence last year has seen me increasingly tired. I have lessons to learn about pacing myself and not pushing myself so hard or being so hard on myself. There are many more lessons that I need to learn too.
I am so glad, however, I have found my creative ‘mojo’ once again. May it long continue!
It’s also only a few days until Color Me Calm and Color Me Happy are available for purchase. It’s really exciting for me!
Art is the Adventure 