Finally getting the courage and confidence to start a large cat drawing from a picture of my nieces cat. I'm doing this with my Arteza colored pencils on white paper. There were 21 colors, used, to make the eyes. 14 colors to make the tongue.
I found a couple of boxes at Micheal's. These would be perfect to carry the colored pencils, I'm working with. They fit perfectly in a small bag for short camping trips. Of course, they needed a little decorating. They fit about 50 pencils and room at the top for sharpeners and erasers.
Drawing the arch, colored pencil drawing, gave me an idea. Last spring we went to the Arches National Park in Utah. I wanted to draw the architectural formations from the park. This one is the balancing rock. I used white, as a base, in the vibrant areas.
I've always been intrigued with glass. The transparency and play of lights would mesmerize me. I wanted to paint/draw glass and crystal, but found it intimidating. I found a study on a glass marble and gave it a go.
I found that, certain colors didn't work on this paper. Some of the colors had surprised me, thinking they should work. I was amazed, how well the greys "popped" out on the paper. The metallics works wonders on this paper. They don't work so well on white paper. The picture is of a watercolor study I found on Instagram.
I found a little 6 X 4," souvenir photo album in the thrift store for $0.29. It had black paper and I thought it would make a cute sketch book. I tried a colored pencil drawing of a cat.
I needed larger place mats. I had a brain fart, when I designed the last batch. For some reason they came out, a little too small. I forgot to add in the seam allowance when I cut them out. I remembered as I was thinking up the design, but forgot to draw it in. I had enough to make the, reversible, place mats, but not enough to do the same with a table runner.
Hubby liked my fishing pole so much he wanted to make his own. He floated fingernail polish on top of water and dipped the grips to give it a marbled effect.
I found eight blue, Styrofoam balls in my stash. I started tatting snowflakes from "DMC Tatting for Today," bk #15209. The snowflakes were attached using pearl head pins.
