I had a moment of ‘genius’ and printed out the drawing on Winsor and Newton Marker paper. I checked my printer could take such light-weight paper, and it could, and am I glad it can!
Marker paper makes it so much easier to blend alcohol markers, such as Copic, and it’s very white colour means the marker colours remain luminous.
Yes, I know; two doodles in one day. My only decision now is whether or not to colour them and if I do, what media to use!
Sending each and every one of you all the very best of the wishes of the season. May each of your days ahead be filled with love, joy and all things bright and good!
Thank you to all who have supported me and sent me such kind words too.
Drawn on my Surfacebook, coloured in via Autodesk Sketchbook Pro.
The second of the templates I posted yesterday has been coloured. I went with a cooler colour palette than I would usually choose.
Coloured using Caran D’Ache Luminance pencils and a blending solution was used, which actually brought out the colours beautifully!
I also forgot to mention that these wreaths were drawn in Autodesk Sketchbook on my Microsoft Surface Book.
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!
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.
It’s the first day of a new calendar.
Happy 1st of January 2015 to you all and may this day and all that follow be filled with all the love, joy, creativity and good things that each of you deserves so much.
This isn’t quite my first piece of art for this new year; I spent time today completing two pieces of Scandinavian art for Michael O’Mara Books. I got the 1960s work for them done on Tuesday. Yesterday was a day where I did some mandalas for the third ‘Color Me’ book to follow on from the huge success of Color Me Calm and Colour Me Happy.
I’m certainly being kept busy with art!
The winter break is nearly over, and all too soon. It took me over week to calm down enough that the palpitations from work related stress calmed down and for me to sleep properly once again.
No doubt the manic-ness that is teaching will have me stressed out again, especially as it’ll be crazy with an Estyn inspection in three weeks time.
Taking time to meditate, to create, to write will be so important for me, as it always is, but more so with this added pressure and the fact that I didn’t realise how stressed out I was with work, and how exhausted I was too.
I hope I can stave the exhaustion off for a longer time this coming school term …
It’s been a while since my last blog post. The reasons for this are many but include focusing on the art projects “Color Me Calm” and “Color Me Happy“, a return to work after a very extended period of illness, and now working on a book project called “Entangled” for Dover Publications.
It’s been a busy but exciting time with these projects, and I’m sure there’ll be more in the pipeline for me. I’m hoping that this will result in me posting to this blog more often, with updates and sneak previews from time to time of the projects I’m involved in.
I have also had to create a facebook page for myself, Angela Porter Artwyrd.
Here’s a sneaky preview of one of the Mandalas in one of the ‘Color Me’ books.
I’m not good at blowing my own trumpet, but as the cat is out of the bag it’s time for me to say how chuffed I am to have been approached by Jeannine Dillon, editor for Race Point publishers, to do the artwork/illustrations for two books full of colouring templates with text written by Lacy Mucklow and the design put together by Jacqui Carlton.
The first book, Color Me Calm, is due for release in October this year.
The second book is titled Color Me Happy and is also due for release around the same time.
The titles say it all!
I’ve also been working with Bev Robinson of Love Thy Thread and she’s converted some of my artwork into cross-stitch charts available exclusively from this website, just follow the link to me, Angela Porter.
Another piece of news is that I’ll have a third book of artwork coming out early next year with Dover Publishing, Jason Schneider is the editor there. More news as things get done there.
And with that, I must get back to doing the coloured illustrations for Color Me Calm. Such good therapy for me while I’m recovering from a long-term illness of my own.
Art is the Adventure 