You may recall that I am taking an online class called Mermaid Circus. It's been awhile since I worked on it. I had some great ideas, now I just need to get back to it. Trying to work up some excitement again by drawing mermaid tails. I'm thinking some small jewels on a couple of those scales. Hmmmm.
This is part of the first project I posted - collage a mermaid. I was going for a theme to carry throughout the book - what do you think? Can you tell what the theme is from these photos? Let me know in the comment section. :)
Time to get back to work. Time to make more mermaid art!
You can see the original post about my collage mermaid here.
I love the accents made with the pinks! I could be all about the pink! Or teal, or purple, depending on what day of the week it is.
I am getting ready for another ATC swap. The theme for this one is black with one accent color. Of course, I chose pink to be my accent color.
Once again, I drew this on a sheet of 11" x 14" Bristol smooth surface paper from Strathmore. For the pink accents, I used At You Spica Pens (2 shades of pink), a pink copic marker, and some pink watercolor.
I really love the colors! Lower left you see the tangle Sindoo by Sharon Robinson, England. That strip on the lower right is Ragz from CZT Christina Vandervlist. That long skinny one with the openings is Beanpodz from Neil Burley. I love the spiral in the middle - that's my favorite part!
Sliding across from lower left to upper right is Liberty 100 from ~ once again ~ Neil Burley. Mix in a little Kuke from Katy Abbott, some zander, some bunzo, a variation of tagh, and something I totally made up - those circle thingies.
I love finery! It is one of the 'official' zentangle® patterns.
At the top right is Stella, I don't think the step-outs of that one's been released yet. Then I tried a little Undling (yes! it worked), which is Susie Achter's new tangle. In the middle are those cute little circles I made up, along with Sandy Hunter's Cruffle. I think the two work pretty well together!
Yes, I really do like these two together! Anyway, these are some closeups of the detail work! I cut this sheet down into 16 ATCs that I will mail out to sixteen different people in the new swap that starts on the 1st!
I am really having a ball drawing large scale this way! Next up? A 53-deck of card ATCs for a swap amongst the CZTs. I can not wait!
A couple weeks ago while I was out of town, I posted the beginning of this homework assignment. Pretty much all I had then was the row of reflective trees across the top and some dividing lines drawn down the length of the page. It didn't take me long to fill in the rest of the page with tangles. Now that I am back home, I need to fill this with color. Once that's done, I will come back and post the finished project for you to see. I'm taking Marie Browning's online class Time To Tangle in Color. I'm learning a lot and loving it! Thanks, Marie!
Recently I pulled out the tangle called dragonair and started working on it. Norma Burnell is the Queen of Dragons and Fairies and she designed this tangle. I have admired it for quite awhile, but have had some difficulty getting it to look right. I decided I was going to stick with it till I figured it out. I've been out of town the past two weeks helping my daughter move almost 800 miles away for school. During the day we set up her apartment and ran errands. At night I had time to draw a bit. I drew this on Strathmore Grey. Sporting a small amount of battle armor, I really like the way he turned out. I'm not going to be giving Norma a run for her money, but I have finally figured out the dragonair pattern, and for that I am happy!
