Courage
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.
Boxes
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.
Arches
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.
Souvenir
Last One
Finally finished, the last (lots of beads) ornament. Now to finish the blue, satin balls and start the larger gold balls. This one is my favorite.
Marbles
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.
Souvenir
Bubbles
The pictures seemed a little dark in areas. I thought I should add white, as a base layer. Seeing a study of bubbles, on YouTube, confirmed my theory.
Souvenir
Learning
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.
Souvenir
Souvenir
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.
Almost
Almost done with the batch of 8 satin balls.
Hard
These are so pretty, it's hard to decide which one is my favorite.
Decorating
I enjoy, decorating the plain snowflake with the pearls.
Pearls
Working through the "Tatting for Today," book. I;m tatting the snowflake, without beads and adding pearl-headed pins. Some pins I add extra beads.
Setting
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.
Find
We had gone to a Vintage Christmas show....look what I found!
Waste
I didn't want to waste the UV resin, so I encased a few pieces of tatting.
Pole
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.
Playing
One of my neighbors has been coming over, to learn to use her colored pencils. We are practicing on adult coloring pages. Here is a page I finished.
Anther
Here is another snowflake...these seem to go faster than the beaded balls.
Pearls
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.
Scruffy
This scruffy kitten came out ok.
Yellow
I decided to draw a yellow-eyed cat in my souvenir book. I was drawing this on one of our fishing/camping trips.
