Favorite Color

My favorite color's lime green. This color's refreshing, energizing, & bright. Mixing lime green, yellow, & orange gives a citrus combination.  Mixing lime green & shades of light blue gives a tropical water color.  Try mixing your favorite color with other colors to create your own unique combinations.

Night Butterfly

I've always loved butterflies.  Just watching them dance in the air is so uplifting.  I drew this butterfly as it takes off into the night under the moon.  I used metallic colored pencils & added simple designs to the wings.

Copyright 2011

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Fall Colors

It's fall 2011.  Fall's a perfect time to capture the beautiful colors changing on the leaves.  Take some photos, gather a few leaves, take your sketchbook outside, and get inspired!  Create art by using fall colors: deep red, gold, dark green, orange, yellow, brown, etc.  These warm colors combined will bring warmth to your home or office on a winter's day.

Blending Chalk

If you use chalk for your artwork, here are a few items that you can use to blend the colors:

Q-tips. cottonballs, soft sponge, tissue or a soft cloth.  You can create a mixture of colors by blending with these items.  This works well when drawing with colored chalk on black cardstock.

Balloon

I like to use shading in my artwork.  Here's a simple design where I combined red, orange, & yellow. You can draw this balloon by first drawing a circle.  Then draw a small triangle at the bottom of the circle.  Add a string by drawing a wavy line.  The balloon will appear to float by drawng a wavy line.

Copyright 2011

 

Tracing with Cookie Cutters

You can use cookie cutters as a drawing tool for tracing.   Pick up your favorite shaped cookie cutter at a local supermarket.  Place the cookie cutter on a cardstock or paper. Trace around the shape of the cookie cutter.  Once you have the shape, fill in the details.  You can make a variety of crafts using this idea. Try magnets, bookmarks, holiday ornaments, & more!

Drawing: The Other Half

An easy way to begin learning how to draw is by looking at the symmetry of a picture. I've drawn half of this picture. You can print this then draw the other half. Look at the symmetry then draw the other side. If you're interested in more of these lessons, let me know. I'll add more to the blog in the future.