Continuing With Procreate #procreateart #tanglestartsstrings

So I am pretty much having a blast at nighttime

watching Musketeer reruns and playing with my iPad. 

The Procreate app is pretty amazing and I don't even

know how to do very much with it yet. 

I imported the image above. (I used it for the

cover of my Tangle Starts Strings book.)

Made with alcohol ink on Yupo. 

And I started drawing. 

Tangles I used include stack, dandelions and abundies. 

 But first I did this. 

Hahahahaha!

Playing with brushes.

So much fun!!!!

But I digress. 

 Before shading. 

After shading with an airbrush.

And I added some other brushes with the paint

spatters. It was pretty awesome to create!

From Hahnemühle Watercolor Paper to Procreate Mandala #hahnemühle #hahnemuhleharmony #procreateart

 Still having fun with this Procreate app on my iPad. 

So, so much to learn!

I made this last night while listening to TV.

Let me walk you through what I did. 

 Earlier in the month, I did a product review for the

Hahnemühle Harmony Hot Pressed Watercolour Paper. 

You can read the review here.

For this project in Procreate,

I imported one of the backgrounds I made for that

review - using the Hahnemühle Harmony paper. 

I put the settings on symmetry and clicked the radial option.

The cool thing about radial symmetry is this -

whatever you draw in one section of the radial grid

automatically appears in all the other sections. 

I started in the center by drawing one loop.

The program replicates that one loop into eight.

I just kept adding lines.

 I am so in awe of what the program does that I have

trouble remembering what tangles I know. 

Hahahahahaha!

I figure loops, auras and copadas are always

a good way to go. 

And a mix of straight and curves.

You know . . . for balance.

And I could tell it needed contrast so I filled

some areas in with black.

And just kept building till I felt like it was complete.

Then I moved on to shading.

Still trying to figure this part out on the iPad - 

I used the airbrush.

I could also do this in color so maybe

next time I will try shading with a 'color'

instead of grey.

Overall I love how it turned out and I am

ready to give it another go!

Procreate App available in the App Store. 

Playing With the Procreate App #procreate #digitalart

 I finally got brave enough to charge my

Apple Pencil and check out the Procreate

app on my iPad. 

So much fun!!!

My friend Cindy got me started and this is

what I made in the symmetrical setting.

I honestly don't recall how I added the

shading. I am hoping I can figure that out

the next time I try. 

Hahahahaha!

For this one I imported a page from my

Tangle Starts book. Everything you see in the

 background is actually a gelli plate pull I made

using a stencil. I imported it into Procreate

and used the technical pencil and the gel pen

to add some floral designs.

Kind of quick, spent about 10 minutes figuring

it out. I do love it!

 This is part of an art piece I made at Robin Mead's

class back in July. I did a quick screen shot of a portion

of it, imported it into Procreate, and added some

tangles with my Apple Pencil. 

I even figured out how to draw them in color. 

Then I started over with the same picture before

tangles, and clicked a link called 'automatic.'

When I touched the pen to the color in the photo -

this is what happened!

Cool!

No idea why, but I love it!

I am easily amused.

I promise I will be learning more about this

app and will keep showing you my fun results.

Heheheheheh!

ATC Letter O Swap #ATC #artisttradingcards #gelliprint #santoro

 One of the groups I belong to on Facebook - 

ATC Trades and Jams - 

is gearing up to do a trade with the theme of

Letter O.

We can trade with two people.

Can you guess my theme?

Hahaha! Hopefully my theme is obvious!

I know these pictures will appear large on the

computer screen, keep in mind ATCs are 2.5" x 3.5"

pieces of art. You have to figure out what you can

fit into that small amount of space that

will reflect the theme. 

For both cards I started with gelli print pulls

I did on water color paper.

I used a stencil and left a bunch of previous

paint on my plate, making some really 

cool looking bubbles.

Inked the edges with a teal StayzOn ink pad,

then tangled some airways, printemps and

IndyRella.

Shading is graphite, highlights is a white

gelly roll pen. 

The sweet little mermaid was part of the

cardboard packaging for some Santoro stamps.

The O tiles, glass flowers and cute little charms were 

stuck down with glue dots. Then I put them into

baseball card sleeves to protect them.

An hour's worth of work at tops.

Can't wait to see who I get to send them to!

And where!

I'm looking forward to being part of this group.

Now I just have to find the time.

Two Tangles For You #tangleallaround #alicehendontangles

 I am hoping to transition all my tangles over

to teal boxes like these two.

I just like teal. Hahahaha!

Here are steps for making All Boxed Up

with straight lines and with wonky lines.

Super versatile tangle. You can seriously use it so 

many ways. I used it in yesterday's post as well.

Feel free to pin to your Pinterest boards.

Ribbon Rose is the most recent tangle I've

published. Designing others for a couple books 

I'm working on. So stayed tuned for those.

This past week saw Ribbon Rose featured on

the Tangle Patterns website, where you can

find literally hundreds of patterns to work with.

Here is a link directly to Ribbon Rose.
I will post the YouTube video link at the very
bottom of this post.

I have used it so many different ways, but this

is my favorite!

Please feel free to pin Ribbon Rose to your

Pinterest boards also. 

Have a great Sunday!

You may also enjoy Helen Williams' tangle

Crumpled Roses at this link. 

Ribbon rose and crumpled rose are similar in

appearance, yet they are arrived at in 

different manners. 

A Tangle Sampler #tangleallaround

In my Facebook group 

Tangle All Around

we have weekly prompts. 

This week's I Dare You! prompt was to make

a tangle pattern sampler using color.

I opted to use my Hahnemühle Watercolor book

and my newly put together watercolor kit. 

I started by making some oddly (haha!) shaped boxes

of color. I wanted them to be square but that wasn't

to be. Not so much. 

Isn't that a cool little watercolor kit?

I bought the tin filled with empty half pans on Amazon,

then filled the half pans with color from my tubes.

Waited till for-stinkin-ever for them to dry,

then used a water brush to pick up the color

and make the boxes.
The Hahnemühle Watercolor book can be purchased
here. 

Today I added some of my own tangle patterns

and made a cute little sampler.

I am using this watercolor book to track my

tangle history in patterns.

You can see an entire post about it here. 

(But no giveaway because that has already happened.)

Come join us at Tangle All Around.

We have a rockin' group of awesome

tanglers - brand new to advanced -

and we help each other learn. 

Reorganizing Take Two #somuchfun #foundgoodstuff

 In my last post I was showing you how I was reorganizing my art studio. 

It was looking pretty good, too.

And then I got an awesome idea for getting more of

my color media out where I could actually see them

and be able to remember what I have.

Hence, Reorganizing Take 2. 

When we lived in Florida, we had one of these

nifty hanging racks on the back of a closet door and

we stashed boxes and cans of food in it.

Ta-da!!!!!

$29.00 on Amazon and it was here in two days. 

This is the perfect way to get my color available where I can 

see what I have. And not forget. 

And before you get discouraged, I have been collecting

color for almost 6 years now. 

Just so you know. 

All these bottles of color were previously stashed in

drawers and in pretty boxes. Where it was not visible. 

So easy to forget what

I have and just keep going back to the items 

on my rolling carts.

 By moving things out of boxes and onto the back

of the door, I was able to free up a bunch of space.

I now have 2 drawers of alcohol ink.

Yay!!!!

Easier to access and still portable.

I work with these in the kitchen because that room

is better ventilated than my studio.

 This is far and away the coolest thing I found!

I got this on eBay. A long time ago. It was in the bottom of a drawer underneath a lot of other things. 

It was made in England by Page of London. 

The lid is a little dented up . . .

. . . but the paints inside have never been used. 

It's crazy how the colors are all mixed up and in no order.

It is a huge set - the tin is 7" x 12". 

I can't decide if I want to use the paints

or

save the paints. 

Opinions?

A used and nasty set is going for $39.00 on eBay.

And today - I continue cleaning up.

Cause I made a serious mess yesterday. 

Reorganizing My Studio #whatamess #mystudio #whereiwork

Reorganizing once again because I can't find something.

It is hard to find certain things because I keep

thinking about where they were in Florida. 

Every inch of this room is utilized for storage.

And it does get a bit out of control from time to time. 

Recently, I have had several people ask about 

my studio, so I thought I'd show you some photos.

The above shot was taken from the doorway. 

No, I did not paint the pictures over the TV.

They are the art of Jasmine Becket Griffith.

I got them at Disney Springs.

Of course Tinker Bell is my favorite!

Mostly I use the TV to listen to the radio.

Hahahahah!

Those white cabinets came from IKEA.

Of course.

The boxes on the shelves are filled with various paints and inks.  

I am working on a system to get them out in the open where I can actually see what I have. 

The white enclosed cabinet is the shipping station for my store. 

That next chest with the colored drawers came from

Hobby Lobby. They still carry this cabinet. 

That's just part of my lunchbox collection up top.

Down the right-hand side is where I actually work.

The two tall black cabinets came from Hobby Lobby

and the rolling carts full of ink sprays are

from IKEA. 

I have carpet on half the floor.

That way if I have a mishap with color -

it doesn't get on the hard wood floors.

Wow! I'm just noticing how cluttered things were

in these photos. It looks better now. Honest.

 My store is located in the closet. All the shelves are full. 

In both directions - left and right and out of sight. 

I have been pulling things out in order to downsize. 

I'd really like to get out of the shipping part of the store and go all digital.

I have a rack coming that will hang on the inside of the closet door. 

I am going to put as much of my color as will fit 

on the shelves so I can actually see and 

grab without having to move a lot of things.

Some more of my lunchboxes, Funko Pop figures

and my Zen the Zebra from Zebra Pen where

I am an Artist Ambassador. 

 I've put together and published three books

from that desktop, using that computer

and all these supplies.

Tangle Starts has all full color pages - 

similar to what you see on the cover -

ready for you to just add your line work to.

Or use as an art journal or for collage work.

 Tangle Starts Planner is set up in the style

of a bullet journal with heavy focus on the

tangler and tangling art.

It has 106 new tangle patterns and plenty

of places to store your favorite patterns and

for you to draw and tangle away the days.

Tangle Starts Strings is my most recent book.

There are 378 pre-drawn strings so all you have

to do is add the drawing.

That hard first step of setting up your string

has already been done for you.

I am currently working in stages on four more

books for the tangle artist.

They will round out my Artangleology Series. 

More info on those later.

This concludes my studio tour.

Hahaha!

I hope you enjoyed it.

And I promise, 

it is cleaner and more picked up now. 

My Tangle Starts Strings This Week #tanglestartsstrings

Tangle Starts Strings

is my most recent book.

The cover states there is a string for

every day of the year, when in fact there

are some bonus strings.

You get a total of 378 strings already drawn

for you in this book. 

And it is so easy to use!

There are four strings per page,

at 3.25" square they have plenty of space

for you to add your tangles. 

You can easily complete a square in one

sitting. I worked on these over the past

week and I just noticed I did not add

printemps to the first tile.

Weird. Cause I always use printemps.

Hahaha!

I gave you space under each tile to record

the names of the patterns you used.

Or to make any notations you wish.

I used the heavier full-color paper for this

book, even though the bulk of it is black and

white. This will allow you to work without

worrying about bleed through on your pages.

You can read more about the book here. 

What are you working on?

We are headed into the weekend, 

we will probably be doing some ATV riding.

Have fun!

Disc Bound Journaling #hahnemühle #hahnemühleharmony #peerlesswatercolor

I made a disc bound journal!

Awesome!

In a post you can see here, I show you in 

great detail what I did with the journal. 

The paper I started with was 140 lb. hot pressed

watercolor paper called Harmony, and it is

made by Hahnemühle Fine Art. 

The pages were roughly 9" x 12".

I cut each page into 4 sections of 4.5" x 6".

The reason this is called a "disc bound" journal is

because the pages are held together with special

little plastic discs that allow for easy page

turning. They also allow for easy removal of

pages to work on one at a time.

You can move the pages around and change the

order, which I did many times.

I even changed the size of the discs because

those pink ones were too large for this project.

I am going to walk you through my favorite

page in the journal and show you how to make it. 

I removed one page from my book.

Those scraps of colored paper are actually 

bits of highly concentrated water color. 

Peerless Watercolors actually.

These were bits I cut off other sheets in the past,

and kept because even a little 1/2" x 2" scrap

will give me lots of color to work with.

To that add one water brush filled with water. 

I am no watercolor wonder, but anyone can use

these swatches - I promise!

It is as easy as rubbing your water brush across

a bit of the peerless swatch.

That immediately picks up the color that

you then 'paint' onto your page. 

There is seriously no rhyme or reason to the way

I work, I just use the colors I like and put it

down in patches.

They can blend into each other if I want.

Or they can stay in their little areas if that

is what I want.

I let this dry for a couple hours.

I could have sped the time up with a heat gun

but really - I had 31 other pages to work with.

When I came back to this - I used a 

Tombow Mono Drawing Pen 

and started tangling in sections.

I filled the darker pink sections with printemps.

A couple of the blue sections, too, apparently.

Hahaha!

And I just continued adding tangle patterns.

I try to stay with specific color blocks and let

the shape of the color block act as my 'string.'

You can see I did this with crescent moon and 

diva dance rock 'n roll. 

Then I looked to identify places where colors side

by side could use a cross-over type of tangle

like arukas. 

That is the one with the small black circles and the

lines that reach across colors and join with

other circles. 

Once I was happy with the tangle patterns I added,

I went back with a white gelly roll pen and added

highlights to sparkle the printemps.

Adding this page back to the disc bound journal

was as easy as laying it top of the other pages

and popping the slotted holes back over

the discs.

Easy peasy and done with one page! 

The Hahnemühle Harmony 

Hot Pressed Watercolour Paper can be 

purchased here. 

Have fun playing! If you make a disc

bound journal, I would love to see it!