TV Time Last Night #alicehendon #procreateart

I just realized I forgot to shade this.

Oh well, I'll do that tonight when we watch

reruns on TV. Thankfully new episodes start

back up next week.

As much as I love Merlin, and Atlantis, and 

the Musketeers, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

there are only so many times you can watch them.

Trust me on this one.

I do like the way this turned out.

It was my first time to try something

curvy like mooka. 

And I'm liking the crazy lines on betweed.

First orbs I've done as well.

I must have drawn that largest one 20 times

before I could get the start and end points

to meet. Couldn't do that on a piece of paper.

Hahahahaha!

Tonight?

Shading 101. 

Procreate Meets Hahnemühle Harmony #hahnemuhle #hahnemuhleharmony #procreateart #dalerrowney

I have been playing with the Procreate App 

on my ipad at nighttime while we Netflix.

'While we Netflix.' Heheheh. Like it's a verb! 

 I took this background I had saved online and

uploaded it into the app to tangle on.

To make the background I used Daler Rowney 

Acrylic Artists Inks and water on a sheet of 

Hahnemühle Harmony Hot Pressed Watercolor 

 Paper. I did a whole bunch of backgrounds 

and saved them before I drew on them.

Glad I did, too! Cause I can tangle on all of them

in the Procreate app - as many times as I want to!

 The colors in this background don't really speak

of underwater sea life, but that is totally where

my brain went. So my pen went along for a

journey and we started tangling up some airways

and some printemps-armed-wavy-thingies

that I really like a lot!

 Gotta have shading to makes things have dimension.

I am still figuring this part out in the program,

so I tried 'flat marker' this time and I like it.

Overall. Still a learning process.

I liked the tangle combination so much I continued on

and added more of both tangles. 

I thought I was done, but I felt like the piece

needed one more little airways blob

in that upper corner. 

I was shading as I went along,

I didn't want to forget. 

And then I was finished. 

So much fun!

A whole little group of anemones. 

Maybe that is what I will name that

wavy-armed-blob-thingy!

Interested in the Hahnemühle Harmony?

You can purchase some right here. 

Enjoy!

Mixing Hahnemühle With the Procreate App #hahnemühle #hahnemühlecézanne #procreateapp #hahnemühlebamboo

 This is an awesome background I made using

Dylusions Shimmer Sprays on a sheet of

Bamboo Mixed Media paper from 

Hahnemühle. 

I used loads of water, blotted and mopped up,

then added more water and shimmer spray.

I also used a heat gun to make the heat rings.

Lots of working on this sheet of paper with tools

and it held up like a champ!

No problem with warping, pilling, or shredding.

And I love the bright, brilliant color.

 I loved it so much that I imported it into the 

Procreate App on my iPad and tangled up

this mandala. I am still learning the program,

there is sooooo much you can do with Procreate.

And I still have my original sheet of color that

I can use for something else. 

I used tangle patterns: betweed, shattuck and flux.

 This is a 12" x 16" sheet of 

Cézanne Hot Pressed Mould Made Watercolor paper

from Hahnemühle. 

For color I used a couple shades of the

Dylusions Ink Sprays and a lot of water.

Yep. 

That's my signature move - lots of water.

And a heat gun to make rings, drips and runs. 

I love that this sheet is so large and it looks

beautiful! 

Because it was originally on a block of

paper - that means it is glued on all 4 sides - 

I was able to leave it attached to the block 

until it was completely dry. And it stayed flat. 

Yayayay!!!

I also uploaded this paper into the Procreate App

and tangled up a little underwater scene. 

Hahahahaha! 

I don't know where you'd have to go

to find a red and orange ocean,

but this is my underwater scene

and I'm sticking with it!

I used nebula, printemps, Indy Rella, 

ripped screen and a hybrid tangle I'm working on. 

I am really enjoying loading my backgrounds into 

the app and using them without actually drawing

on the original piece of art. That way I can use

the backgrounds again and again for other things.

Although I totally see myself tangling up this large

sheet of paper at some point. 

Hahnemühle has so many amazing types of paper

to draw or paint or print on. 

You can check them out at their website

located here. 

The Bamboo Mixed Media can be purchased here. 

Cézanne Hot Pressed can be purchased here. 

And . . . if you are new to my blog, 

this is easy to remember 

pink = link. 

Hahnemühle and Procreate #procreate #procreateart #hahnemühle #hahnemühlebamboo

 I am really having trouble getting motivated

to tangle. Zentangle. Meh. 

A lot of the zen has disappeared.

So I have been playing with the Procreate App

on my iPad. 

You know. Until the 'zen' makes a reappearance.

Above is Cherryl Moote's new tangle called

Hexonu.

It is addictive and really easy to draw. 

One block leads to another.

You know? I just realized that all this art

is tangled. Maybe I am just having trouble

sitting down putting pen to paper???

I worked on this one last night.

I used a fun background I made on a piece of

Hahnemühle Bamboo Mixed Media paper 

and imported it into Procreate.

Want to see how I made the background?

Click here and read about the project in my product review of this awesome Bamboo Mixed Media paper from Hahnemühle. 

 I set Procreate up to design in symmetrical radial

and started making lines. 

I love how whatever I draw in one section replicates

itself into the other 7 sections automatically. 

And I can change brushes and pen colors and line thicknesses.

 The hardest part for me is segueing from lines to curves.

But I managed just fine. 

I went from my own tangle pattern stack

 to another tangle of mine called

TootsieMoon. 

Those cute little dandelion puff balls are a

brush in the program. Everything else I drew. 

I am noticing when I use the iPad to create

I am not incorporating printemps.

That is kind of weird. 

And strange. 

Oh well. 

Here is my finished project all zoomed in so

you can see it better. 

And it all started with some 

Hahnemühle Bamboo -

which you can purchase here. 

I love it!

Mixing paper art with digital art.

It is a win/win all around. 

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!