I have been playing in Periscope lately and did this bible set live. It was fun but took longer because is was doing a few different things all at once.
Isaiah 58:8 is an amazing verse!
I finally finished drawing my sunflower and now it's ready for paint! Keep watching for the finished piece, which will be for sale.
It's been hot here, by Alaska standards, and the heat makes me tired. Blah.
I have been hanging out in our little swiping pool, that is heated by a little woodstove my husband built. It's very nice floating around in my pool chair but I doesn't allow for much productivity. Oh well, gotta soak up the sun while we still have it this far north.
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I have started a new drawing. It is slow going, can't rush details! I will watercolor it after I an finished with the drawing part.
I also did more bible art in my journaling bible. I am so glad everyday is a fresh start with God. 😍
I haven't forgotten about the giveaway! I just need to get everything organized so I can do it.
I really like Facebook's "One year Ago, Today". Sometimes, that "one year ago" seems like yesterday, other times it seems like 10 years ago. :)
Just about one year ago today, I started pen and ink drawings. Mostly because I just wanted to sit outside in the warm sun and enjoy our short Alaska summers as much as possible, without dealing with a bunch of watercolor paints and other supplies.
My nephew got married Saturday here on the farm and it was so much fun and perfect weather. The fingerprint tree I made then turned out really great and is now a very special piece of art on their wall. I didn't do the lettering because I'm not good at it. That is something I should work on! The original idea was to cut them from vinyl but that didn't work out for some reason. But they found a brave soul who did it for them. Lettering is a totally different ballgame than what I do and I have great admiration for those who can do it.
Fortunately, the wedding was casual enough that my husband fit in with all the other Alaskan guys who wore their "formal" jeans, lol.
I will show the finished moose drawing in a later post, if I remember.
Right now. I think I will grab my sketchbook and pen and head outside!
My nephew is getting married soon and they asked me to make the guest fingerprint tree.
The guests will stamp fingerprint on the canvas with ink from a stamp pad and sign their name. Such a great idea, I love it!
I will be painting in some light shading tomorrow. This is just a practice tree, I want to make sure everything turns out right before I jump in to do the actual on for the wedding. So far, it's going great!
This one is on an 18x20 canvas. I may sell it when finish it or maybe keep it as a friendship tree and have my friends add their fingerprints to it when they visit.
If anyone is interested in buying it, please contact me, thanks!
It is HOT here in Alaska, in the 80's, which is uncommon. And it is dry, no rain to speak of. And it's on fire.
Yes, on fire. A wildfire in burning in Willow, not to far from my home (we are a safe distance) but it is close to my daughter's home, only 16 miles away from her. Many people have evacuated the areas around the fire, many homes have been burned and people displaced. Willow has a large dog-sledding community and the top female musher, DeeDee Jonrowe, lost everything in the fire but she was able to rescue her 50 sled dogs. Sadly, her older dog and her cat perished in the fire.
NEW VIDEO! HOW TO DRAW EASY AND WHIMSICAL RIBBONS!
This is video five in the video series "All Creation Praises the Lord" based on the Psalm 97-99 pen and ink drawing in my Crossway ESV Single Column Journaling bible.
Today's video shows you how to draw pretty, dangling ribbons that are dancing on a gentle breeze.
They are good background filler for those spaces in your drawing that just need something in them.
This video did start out to be tutorial for drawing both ribbons and flowering vines but it was way too long so I split it up BUT,..you will get a nice sneak peak at what that next video will cover!
I hope you enjoy the video and as always, please share your drawings with me and I may feature them on my social media!
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Please feel free to ask me any questions and I will do my best to answer!
Spring is turning into summer here in Alaska. We are in full 24 hour daylight mode, which means I don't sleep like I do in the winter. Who can sleep when the sun is shining all night long?? Sleep can wait until winter. :)
We have been having a LOT of windy weather. I sure would like it to just be a gentle breeze to just stop. I live between two glaciers and we are surrounded by mountains and those winds are COLD. Plus, they stir up glacier dust, which is super fine dust made by glaciers grinding rocks to dust as the ice flows and recedes. It coats everything and isn't good for the lungs.
My super husband is sick today, a very unusual event. He has spent the day on the couch, poor guy. I am praying and am sure he will be fine soon.
Now, on to the video! I have made a short video that shows the different pen strokes that I use in many of my pen and ink drawings. I really encourage you to get to know your supplies and learn everything they can do. I have personalized this one a bit. You will soon see that I am a pen nerd..and maybe a little dorky..or a lot dorky...and I'm OK with that.
Many people are afraid of pens because they aren't erasable and if a mistake is made, everything is ruined, right?
Wrong!
Once you learn different techniques for using pens, you can start off light and increase the darks as needed. Starting off light gives lots of chances to camouflage or incorporate mistakes so they don't show and may even turn into "happy mistakes" as the late oil paint artist Bob Ross used to say.
I have scanned off this pen stroke reference and hope you find it helpful. Click on the photo to enlarge it.
I will be making more videos saved on the Psalm illustration, which I continue to add on to. I will be showing how to do flowering vines and ribbons. I have been asked to show how to draw the squirrel but that is a bit advanced so these current videos are good practice to lead up to the squirrel or maybe a bunny.
I am continuing to learn how to make better videos and am looking forward to getting a solid set up soon.
This is the third video in the series "How to Dray Easy Stylized Flowers"
This is an ongoing tutorial series based on select verses from Psalm 97-99 pen and ink drawing in my Crossway ESV Single Column Journaling Bible.
These beautiful, easy bumblebees are very fun once you learn how to draw them and are so easy, they don't take a lot of thought or effort, just like doodling!
PLEASE SHARE PHOTOS OF YOUR FLOWERS, I LOVE SEEING THEM AND MAY FEATURE THEM HERE AND ON MY OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA!
Post on my Facebook page: www.Facebook.com/MichelleHotchkissArt
Or tag me on Instagram @MichelleHotchkissArt
(To see all video tutorials in one place, select "Video Tutorials" from the menu above)
This is the second video in the series "How to Dray Easy Stylized Flowers"
This is an ongoing tutorial series based on select verses from Psalm 97-99 pen and ink drawing in my Crossway ESV Single Column Journaling Bible.
These beautiful, easy flowers are very fun once you learn how to draw them and are so easy, they don't take a lot of thought or effort, just like doodling!
PLEASE SHARE PHOTOS OF YOUR FLOWERS, I LOVE SEEING THEM AND MAY FEATURE THEM HERE AND ON MY OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA!
Post on my Facebook page: www.Facebook.com/MichelleHotchkissArt
Or tag me on Instagram @MichelleHotchkissArt
(To see all video tutorials in one place, select "Video Tutorials" from the menu above)
