Drawing/Painting/Coloring Art Supplies

This week, I was a little bit late getting the Try It Tuesday Challenge up.  You'll all just have to forgive me - I've been quite sick.  But, I can sit upright again now, so I'm back in the fray!  I figured we all needed a "limp-along" to get our creative juices flowing again and wanted something easy.  What could be more easy than drawing your own art supplies?  I don't know, maybe drawing an invisible imaginary friend, but everyone can see the art supplies.  ::grins::

So, take just a little bit and go draw out the art supplies you use!  It'll get your creativity muscles warmed back up and you'll be ready for the weekend's creating...

Happy Merry Christmas!!

Happiest Holidays this morning!  Did you get everything you were hoping you'd get??  Was there a ton of art supplies and now you don't know what to do with it all?  Might I suggest you go take a look at the forums on the trading site and do some Try It Tuesdays, Illustration Fridays, or a Challenge or two?  Today is the perfect sort of day for doing that stuff.  I've got my markers out, along with my gold and silver paint pens today.

It's **SNOWING** here at our place in Oregon!!  We're getting ready for a family gathering later today; so there's a roast cooking, fresh baked sour dough bread, cookies sandwiched together with frosting, potatoes au gratin, and lots of games and puzzles everywhere.  It's a wonderful day!  Of course, with all this snow, I don't know how much the games will be used - when there's snow, you're supposed to go out and play in it!  :)

Today's Try it Tuesday is a hardish one (I think): Snow.  It's hardish to capture snow on a white piece of paper!  I guess the whole paper could just be a white out blizzard.  lol.  But if you look closely, snow isn't generally white at all; but bluish instead, see:

This taken by Lichtmagnet on pixabay.com.

At night, it's even more blue:

This taken by Turkinen on pixabay.com.

Try It Tuesday: Lines

Be sure to use this post to help you out!

Squiggly lines, straight lines, curvy lines...  Long, short, one or many, hashed, mashed, and splashed.

Lines kind of sounds like zentangle, but it doesn't have to be!

Try It Tuesday: Superhero Grandparents!

What would your grandparents look like if they were Supers?

Try it Tuesday: Hunting

The Try it Tuesday challenge this week is Hunting.  There's so many different ways to look at "hunting," that we thought it made a perfect challenge!

What do you hunt for?

• The ideal gift for someone?
• Your dog?
• Your shoes?
• Wild game?
• The perfect blue?
• Your favorite cookie?
• Chocolate?
• Friends?
• The perfect art supply kit?  (Yah, that's one of mine!)
• Dragons, fairies, and magic??  (That's another of mine...  ::grins::)

Draw what you're hunting now on an ATC card and upload it to the ATCsJr.com Trading Site!

Try It Tuesdays: Winter Scenes

Try It Tuesday this time is all about Winter.  I can't hardly wait for it to snow here!  We got a small taste of it on the 10th of this month, but it melted the next day.  I was disappointed, but the melt wasn't unexpected, I have to admit.  November 10th is pretty early to begin the snowy season.

When I was growing up, we had this one winter - I think I was in 4th grade - when we had 8 feet of snow!  It was so much fun.  We made tunnels and jumped off the roof into it (yah, don't do that, k?).  It was a blast.  But it was also boring when we couldn't go out and play in it.  It is dangerous stuff, after all!  :)  But for a kid, it doesn't matter how dangerous it is - just that you get to go out and play in it when you discover there's no school because the buses can't get onto the roads.  Hehehe.

Anyway, Winter Scenes can be tough because you have to figure out how to make the snow stay white!  I cheat a little when I'm doing snow and I use acrylics to put my snow in after I'm all finished up with the rest of the scene.  I don't know if it's really cheating, because that's the way Ma Nature does it - snow after everything is all "painted in."

Good luck!

Here's some inspirations for you:

Try It Tuesday: Egyptian

Try It Tuesdays are for fun and stretching your abilities. They're supposed to help you grow as an artist! So, just for today, there is no "perfect."

There's only fun and smiles.



I thought it would be fun to do some Egyptian themed stuff for Try It Tuesday because it could easily be done in all sorts of mediums, including clay and leather and metal, in addition to the more "traditional" paint, markers, and pencil... There's even cool Man meets Animal type gods in Egyptian history, so make up a new God, tell a story in hieroglyphs, or think about a cat or beetle! Lots of different ways to go - the trouble will be in choosing one!

My clay Starry Night

As promised, here's my process.  Pictures just don't do this justice - it looks so much better in person!

First, I made the scene out of fast drying clay:

Then, after it was dryed out (it took a bit longer than I expected, probably because it was so thick), I started painting it with acrylics.  Here's the first go at it, before I had to let the paint dry or risk messing it up:

Here's the final version of it:

And a few of the close ups next.  You can begin to see in these three photos what I can see here sitting before me:

Try It Tuesdays

Over on the Trading Site of ATCsJr, I've created Try It Tuesdays.  The idea behind this is to give yourself the freedom to TRY something without having to get it right the first, second, third, or ever time.  You can just try it.

Illustration Friday is for drawing in the styles that you know and love.  But Try It Tuesdays are for experimenting with new ways of creating art.

From  http://adriennescatholiccorner.blogspot.com/2012/08/lets-take-hot-air-balloon-ride.html   

This past Tuesday, I challenged hot air balloons.  Think you've got what it takes to aim high and try something you've never done before??

Try it!

This Tuesday upcoming, I've challenged "Night sky."  I figured with everyone being out trick-or-treating, it should be a simple thing to look up and see the night sky, then go home and draw/paint/mold/bake/ink it.  :)