Monday, September 30, 2013
Traveling Journal Pages
Friday, September 27, 2013
Excitement in My Mail Box!
Sunday, September 22, 2013
Happy Birthday to Me
Monday, September 16, 2013
Heading Home (Old News, I'm Home Now)
I am actually typing this Saturday evening. Kali and I just went to see Austenland at the movie theatre. Not being a Jane Austen fan, I thought it was hilarious! I think Kali was offended through most of the first half, especially when I was laughing so loud. Not a serious movie at all. It's about people who pay to go spend a week living the Pride and Prejudice life. So funny! Anyway, I am typing this up tonight and scheduling it hit the blog Monday during the early, early morning hours. I will be doing the drive back home to Florida, expecting to arrive late Tuesday if all goes well. I hope you have a great week!
Note: actually this is a post that was supposed to hit a couple days ago while Kali and I were driving to Florida. Something happened to my blog and many photos disappeared, and this didn't post. For whatever reason, today all the pictures are back and things look normal again. So, here is a late post, hope you don't mind that it's late :).
Sunday, September 15, 2013
Playing With Rollin'
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Happy Fall, Y'All
Friday, September 13, 2013
Rollin'
I am working on the ebook. Again. Drawing, designing, experimenting, making step-outs. This particular piece is an ATC that I made for the fall swap. (I just realized - again - that I was supposed to stick with three tangles. Oh well.) I was playing with crescent moon, which turned into that far right slice with the squiggle down the middle. I am thinking of variations I could use with that - and call it rollin'. That's what I'm working on now.
The colors were the most fun part of this piece for me. I just took a wet, flat brush, swirled some watercolor on it, and swiped it back and forth across a slightly damp tile. I did this with about six different colors and let them blend together a bit. Once it was dry, I started my tangling. Someone in the United Kingdom is getting this ATC. Rollin' out in the mail tomorrow!
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Merely Meer
Monday, September 9, 2013
Trying to Learn How to Draw
Saturday, September 7, 2013
54º This Morning? Let's Make Some Fall ATCs
Friday, September 6, 2013
Bault - New Tangle from Erin Olson
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Teddy Bears and Fall
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Midoosa, Erin Koetz Olson
Finish up all the sections, aura around the outside of the whole thing, then add any black fill that you want. I filled the small interior spots - similar to fingerprints - as well as the underlying color behind the paddles.
Finish it off with some shading. I was happy with how this one turned out, so I moved on to the star. There had to be a way to make a star - not boat paddles - and I was determined to figure it out.
I started off with a circle drawn in pencil. . .
. . . which I split into six sections.
Then I put some pencil dots in the centers of each section to act as a base point for my star . . . . . . points,
which I drew with a micron.
I erased most of the inside lines, but you don't really have to. Then just like in the first example, I started connecting the sections and auraed them.
Add the next section, notice that it falls underneath the first section ala-hollibaugh.
Then the last section.
All that's left is to blacken in the fills. I elected not to aura the entire piece, but to fill in that background with tipple. Shade. I was happy with the way this star turned out - very happy, actually. So I decided to move on to a project.
I know I have step by step photos somewhere, but it's late and I'm super tired. I layered three circles, which included the star, the snowflake, and a flower. That flower? I used my ruler idea, but turned the flatheads of the oars into rounds and called it a flower :). Notice in the snowflake that you do not have to connect points directly across from each other. I added some Derwent Inktense Pencils for color and splattered various colors for some extra texture. For this one, I used Strathmore's new artist tiles - the vellum one.
Erin's tangle midoosa has a lot of options and I know I have only scratched the surface. I think I'll be using this one a lot in the next couple weeks, trying to perfect it. Thanks, Erin, for such a fun pattern!
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