iPad Art

 

I took the leap this past week to the digital art world. I have been creating art on the computer for a few years now and I love the flexibility of using Abobe Illustrator and Photoshop. I have been watching some beautiful art being created using the apps that are out there for the iPad. So when the opportunity came along for me to get and iPad I though it was the perfect time to do so.

Over the next few weeks I will be sharing the apps that I am trying and how each one vary. This is a fun learning experience for me and so I want to share it with you me readers. I am blogging from my iPad rightnow using the Blogsy app.

The Rain rain go away image was created with the app Paper by 53

The drawing above was created with the Sketches app. This is an app that has layers. When you creat your drawing with layers it will export each layer so that you can work with it in vector format.

 

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Let Freedom Ring

 

Happy Independence Day

 

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Handlettering with Watercolor paints

I have been practicing my handlettering and painting them with watercolor. I just wanted to share a peek into my process. 

This one is still a work in progress and I have a lot more linework left to do before I start adding color. 

A Little Lettering Practice

Hand painted Signs

These signs started out with lettering in pencil and then because I'm doing so many I didn't want to to rub off before they were painted so I used a sharpie marker to go over the lines. 

I then used black craft acrylic paint to fill on each letter. 

The center sign doesn't have slanted letters there is a small dip in the ground. 😃

An Art Break

I didn’t mean to,but I have been on a little bit of a blogging break. I have taken this time to refocus my attention on thing that matter to me (my family) and really find time to explore my style, and examine where I want to go with my art. I think this time away has helped me to learn that I will now try to blog on a schedule each week, with 3 post a week on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. This way I can really focus on my family and my art.

Coming Soon

I am so excited to share some great news that I have been working on lately. 

My new ebook will be coming out soon. I just want to bring a little of my excitement to the blog.

I Am

Views from my sketchbook

30 Days of Drawing Day 2

Here is my drawing for day 2 of 30 Days of Drawing:

Supplies: Artist Loft Fine Tip Markers, Artist Loft Illustration Pen 0.3, 0.5. In a Strathmore Windpower Sketchbook 6.25” x 8.5”.

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30 Days of Drawing Day 1

f drawing I am participating in Traci Bunkers’ 30 Days of Drawing so this is Day 1. Here is my Drawing for today. I decided to give my spin to the title drawing. I didn’t start out that way but it is the way the page ended up.

Supplies: Artist Loft Fine Tip Markers, Artist Loft Illustration Pen 0.3, 0.5. In a Strathmore Windpower Sketchbook 6.25” x 8.5”.

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A Peek Inside My Sketchbook

I thought I would share another peek inside my sketchbook. This page was inspired by vintage hat pens and a lovely vintage pin that was in a Country Living Magazine from 2001.

On this page I was inspired by the lettering styles of Lori Vliegen . I love how she letters on each page. I am not much for adding letters but this just had to be done on this page. I am no where close to being as good as she is with her lettering but I did give it a try.

Travel Journal

I wanted to share a few pages in my travel journal with you. Please le me know what you think about them. I love your comments. I took these while we were riding down the road and I have not had a chance to take  better ones.

These pages are just a few of the pages that I completed while I was on the road. I would spend about 2 hours each night when we returned to the hotel room after dinner and complete the pages for the day. I really enjoyed this process.

More Inspiration

Here is the promised journal pages. I hope that you are inspired by the pages as I was when I created them.

These pages were created in a spiral bound journal that I purchased from my local Hobby Lobby. I do not remember the name of the manufacture but the pages are fairly think and hold up well to watercolor crayons and colored pencils. The markers that I have used have done well and It has not bled through. I have used Faber Castle Pitt pens in various shades of gray and black and they have worked well. The second picture uses clothing tags as a border around the page. Tags these days have come a long way and designers use them to “Brand” their clothing so why not take advantage of this great pieces of Ephemera.

These pages were painted with a scraping technique using a old gift card. I then used black and white images of both of my girls to create a page for each of them , about each of them in my journal. They were excited because I created pages for them in my book. I really like the way that they turned out. 

Inspiration Wednesday

I know that most people post their inspiration post on Mondays, but I felt like being a little different today. I have been working like crazy in my journals over the blog break that I took during the month of February. I have a lot to post so I will warn that this will be a picture heavy post. I decided to try out my new camera with a few stylizes pictures of my pages Alisa Burke Style. I love the way that she styles her pictures and how the focus is not on the whole page but small glimpses of the image. Please let me know what you think, as I am trying to learn a new camera by take a lot of pictures. The brown journal is from Papersource and has brown craft paper pages that are very thick and are great even with heave markers use has little to no bleed.

I was trying different lettering styles with this page and focusing on using only black and white to make a very monochromatic page.
Supplies used on this page:
Faber-Castle Pitt brush pen in black
Prismacolor colored pencil in white

This page is just another example of me playing with lettering styles. I had planned on making a page a day for a week but stopped after Monday. I might still go back and add pages in this book for the rest of the days of the week.
Supplies used:
Faber Castle Pitt Fine point black pen
Martha Stewart Craft Markers

The items that are drawn on this page were from a Ballard Design catalog that I was “Window” shopping on this day.
Supplies used:
Faber Castle Pitt Pens in Black Fine, and Brush

I saw this page on another blog on one of my blog hops and had to have my own version for my journal because I feel it is very true.
Supplies used:
Faber Castle Pitt Pen fine in black
Prismacolor colored pencils
This is the pages that I created in this journal and so that this post is not too long I will end it here. I hope you like what you see and leave a comment and give me some feedback. I will be posting more pages the rest of this week.