Roses

The Artist's Play Room challenge this week is botanical. Inspiration Avenue's challenge is roses. Wonderful that they work together so well! I already had this background - watercolored ATC card - that I made when we were vacationing at Cedar Key. Drew this at almost 2 AM this morning, so the lines aren't as neat as I'd like them to be, but I'm posting it anyway. I used a couple new patterns - new to me. Overall I am happy with the tile, next time I won't draw at 2 AM. Why don't you check out these challenges and post some  of your drawings?

Brayd With the Diva, A String, and Inspiration

I apologize up front because I am going to use this tangled tile for three challenges this week - I have never done this before.  I am feeling the stress this week - I am leaving town in two days for almost a week and I am nowhere near being ready. So, up first is Challenge #82 from the Diva (AKA Laura) - that's police talk :). Laura challenged us to use Shelly Beauch's pattern brayd for our tile. I think I have drawn this pattern once before, so it was like new for me. The hardest part was taking my time, and not rushing my way through.

The second challenge comes from Linda Farmer at Tangle Patterns. The string came from Barbara Finwall.

When I drew this, I patterned my brayd along the lines of the string Barbara drew for us. To give the color - I used Derwent graphitint pencils, and their metallic pencils with a water brush. I really like the way the graphitint pencils look - like aged patina - sweet!

Inspiration Avenue offered a challenge this week to use the art of zentangle. Above, I used the patterns brayd, jalousies, and two of my own patterns - blox and barz.

To see some fantastic art, go to these sites and check it out! You can share your work with us! The Diva Challenge, Tangle Patterns, and Inspiration Avenue. 

It's All About the Pink!

This week at Inspiration Avenue, Cindy of Cottage Remnant is hosting the challenge. (She's also been very busy revamping/re-constructing my blog :). For the challenge - Cindy chose Perfectly P!NK, and if you visit her blog you will see why.

This is my finished project. A little different from what I'm used to, but I like how it turned out :). Here is what I did.

Supplies included Studio G ink pads (Wal-Mart for 97 cents,) dabber duos (had these for years - I was surprised they still worked,) a stippling sponge, and a template for the cup. I placed the cup template onto my 5" x 7" white cardstock and lightly dabbed first the green ink, then the pink ink inside the cup opening. Then I used the dabber duos to pop some dots on the cup. (All that mess rinses right off the template - no worry.)

Next, I removed the template and made sure my inks were dried by blasting it for a couple seconds with my heat gun. I found the quote online - google searched for coffee quotes :). A simple black 01 micron pen was used to tangle some patterns - florz, some swirls, and maybe some weave.

Then I started adding in some color with copics:

• YG11 mignonette
• RV10 pale pink
• YG13 chartreuse
• RV14 begonia pink
• C3 cool gray
• W5 warm gray
• G00 jade green.

A shot of all the supplies I used - except for the black micron :).

Lastly, I outlined the coffee cup with the micron. And, popped a little logo in there under the handle. Easy to do and a lot of fun! You should check out Inspiration Avenue where everyone is posting about P!NK, you could even post some artwork of your own!

It's All About the Swirls! IA Challenge

This is the first week I've participated in the challenge at Inspiration Avenue. This week's theme is swirls, so I had fun tangling a bunch of swirly patterns - swirling! I drew this in my mini smash journal, then colored portions with my Pitt Artist Markers. Patterns include wavy border, portholes, swirls, printemps, river, and a variation of nipa. To check out all the swirls, visit Inspiration Avenue. Perhaps you 'd like to post a piece of your own artwork!