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Elephant in Mixed Media
Hello Friends!
Here is my “Happy Birthday Elephant”! He is patiently posing so his mom can take his picture. But the only thing on his mind is opening his presents! 😉
I had fun drawing and designing this piece. I drew the elephant in pencil in a sketchbook until I got him the way I wanted him to look. Then I transferred him onto a piece of hot press watercolor paper. It is almost like poster board, but a little thinner. Again, I debated about using watercolors, but I decided on acrylics. I didn’t use tissue paper like I did with the giraffe, though.
Once I had him transferred, I stuck the banner on at the top and placed the balloon where I wanted it. (These are from some sheets of big stickers for poster board that I found at the dollar store!)
Next I sketched out on tissue paper how I wanted the presents to look by placing it on top of my original elephant sketch to get it positioned where I wanted it before transferring it to my drawing. Then I added the rug and used a Crayola crayon to color it. Originally, I was going to color all of it in crayon but decided against it.
After everything was transferred I decided on my teal color for him. Then since the ballon is red, I made his bows and one of his presents red, too. This is to balance out the use of red. Red is a color many artists don’t like to use, because the eye of the viewer is usually attracted to it first. But since I made his bows red, my eye goes to his face first.
I almost used a thicker pen to outline everything except the banner and ballon but decided against it. Sometimes I think outlining it too thickly destracts the eye from my main subject.
Also, I purposely left the background white so it would have a more illustrative look. I tend to love illustrations with lots of white space. This was lots of fun!!
Have a wonderful day! 😀
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Elephant Mama & Baby Pencil Drawing
Hello Friends,
I have finally finished my elephants drawing. So here they are. Ellie is the Mama and Sammy is the baby. (The little brown smudge at the bottom is from our dog, Brownie, jumping up on the couch where my sketch pad was sitting. She had some dirt on her paw!)
We are on the upswing of this flu bug. I still have a little cough, but I am feeling a whole lot better! This week I am planning on finishing my assignment for my writing class. I have the first part done, and a rough draft that I still have to type up for the second part. I wrote that while I was at Barnes & Noble on Saturday which was the first day I I had been out in a week!
First I went for a walk by the river after walking over our beautiful Sundial bridge. It seemed like everyone in town was there, and almost everyone had at least one dog! I got to pet a beautiful Australian Shepherd. I talked with a guy who was trying to get his 4 month Lab puppy used to people. She didn’t seem to have a problem at all. She was cute. I also saw some GIANT white dog but have no idea what kind it was. All I could think was that I would never want to have to brush it! Ha, ha. 😉
So after I went for a walk I went to the library, the art store for a new sketch pad, then to Barnes & Noble to write, then a couple of other errands and home. But just being outside in the sunshine among a lot of people did me a world of good. The weather was perfect that day. There were a lot of boats on the river, too. I even saw one guy in a boat catch a huge fish!
I hope everyone is staying well. I think after last week’s days of sunshine and temperatures in the 70’s we are going to be getting some rain this week.
Have a wonderful day, and give someone you love a big hug! 🙂
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Elephant Love – Baby and Mama
Hello Friends,
It has been a long week, and I am still not done with this drawing. I want to add some background and darken some more areas, but I worked on this a couple of more days this week.
I still have a cough, but I think I am over the flu now. Our daughter usually has the car all week for work, and today is a sunny day. So since she is home today, I am going out to enjoy some sunshine!
I hope everyone has a great weekend. Stay well.
Have a wonderful day, and give someone you love a big hug! 🙂
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Baby Elephant Drawing
Hello Friends,
Happy New Year! Wow, it has been quite a while since I’ve drawn or written anything! December was relaxing, but my husband took two weeks off, and I just didn’t get around to doing much. Our daughter was gone working on her CCC crew for two weeks and during Christmas down at the Ventura fires. They were a camp maintenance crew so she wasn’t anywhere near the fire. She said she really loved the experience, though! We are very proud of her.
The day after New Year’s, my husband came down with the flu. He is still coughing. Then I came down with it this past Friday! I am doing better now, but still have a cough.
I hope to get back to working out a lot more than I have been, drawing, painting, and writing. It is just feeling like a slow start to everything right now.
In the meantime, I will be finishing this baby elephant who has a mama I will be drawing also. I want to continue drawing the baby and mama animals in the lovely book my daughter gave me this summer.
Well, until next time, I sure hope everyone had a great holiday season and are starting off with a great new year.
Have a wonderful day, and give someone you love a big hug! 🙂
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Watercolor Painting Process – Part 5
This is a picture of painting over the parts that I had masked out earlier. This is a 2″ brush for making it easier to paint over very large spaces. I just purchased this brush recently when it was half priced. It has taken a little bit of getting used to, because the handle is very fat!
This is what the painting will look like before you take the masking fluid off.
Here is a picture of how I get the masking fluid off. I just rub it off with my thumb. Some books tell you to use some type of eraser, but I have had bad things happen when I tried that. So I feel more comfortable using my thumb. 🙂
Here is a picture of the background I painted around the turtle. I did not like the way the sky turned out, because I didn’t like the way the clouds looked. So I ended up painting it much darker later and putting more stormy looking clouds in. I will post those pictures in my next post. I will explain how I “fixed” my mistake then.
© Patsy H. Parker
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Sea Turtle Hatchlings Video!
This is pretty cute. Little Loggerhead sea turtles making their way to the sea! 🙂
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Wilbur the Pig – Acrylic painting
I saw the tail end of Charlotte’s Web the other day on T.V. and decided to paint my own version of Wilbur the pig! Charlotte’s not with him unfortunately. But he will be for sale next Saturday in my booth.
Have a great day, and give someone you love a big hug! 🙂
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Added to the inner freedom
Julia’s thoughts are encouraging! And watch the video of Vincent Van Gogh’s art along with the song “Vincent” by Don McLean. It is beautiful! The words even match his works of art many times which is amazing! 🙂
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Sherri’s Ocean
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I painted this watercolor yesterday from a photo of my new friend Sherri who has a blog named A View From My Summerhouse. Here ya go, Sherri! I hope you like it. 🙂
http://sherrimatthewsblog.com/2014/02/24/weekly-photo-challenge-threes-a-story-of-the-sea/
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