Hurry!

I finally got motivated to play in my sketchbook. 

I sat down at my messy desk with visions of repetition and stencils bouncing around my head. 

Once the taste of Nerds had dissolved from my tongue, I noticed a horrible stench coming from the litter box. 

Seeing as how I'm now pregnant, little things like cleaning litter boxes have been taken off my to do list. And alas, my wonderful husband was outside mowing the yard and could not empty it out right then, so I had to relocate.

So I grabbed my sketchbook, 2 sharpies and my circle stencil and headed to the living room. 

I found this old page with acrylic paint I was using up and decided to draw on top of it.

It's not much, but at least it's something. Quite appropriate too for Illustration Friday's theme of Hurry, since it took me less than 10 minutes to complete!

8x5" acrylic and sharpie

Reminds Me of Olives

I really like color combo of the painting I made for a friend, so I created a much smaller scale piece with one of the original sketches I made for her.

I've actually put a glossy finish on it since I took the picture. I like it better that way.
So imagine it if you can....

Acrylic 11x14"

Yellow Rain

I created this without having any idea of what to do with it, 

so it became a place to try new techniques.

Some techniques didn't work (watercoloring stencils) 

while others turned out pretty well (Neocolors on top of everything).

I think I'm a fan of it as a finished piece though. 

What do you think?

Collaged Beach Scene

My sister requested a beach piece for her house in Cali. 

She saw the mixed media love piece and wanted one of her own. 

She said "something beachy and with starfish."

So here's what I came up with! 

Step one: Stamp the word beach. 

Step two: watercolor the sand and water/sky

 Step three: Collage on starfish and boat

Step four: outline with black and add some dots, waves and a horizon line. 

Voila!

Antique Keys

I played with lots of layers here:

1. Blue Watercolor

2. Yellow/Orange stamp pad ink spread on with a make-up sponge over a circle stencil

3. Keys drawn in ink inside the circles

4. It felt incomplete so I used a small pen to outline the wonderful bleeding edges of the watercolor

4x6" mixed media

Repetition

Currently I'm teaching my students about repetition and pattern. 

So it's not surprising that repetition is on my mind. 

7x9" Mixed Media

Inspired by Julie, I ordered a bunch of stencils from scrapbook.com including the one seen above and played with it a bit in my sketchbook. I'm not in love with it as a finished product, but I like it enough I guess to play with mixed media and stencils. 

Bright Paisley Pattern

8x10" Watercolor and Black Pen

Bird Cards

Here's what I've been working on this week...

You can purchase these at my ArtFire shop!

Watercolor Bird

Today I made this little bird in watercolor. 

I wonder what tomorrow will bring!