I feel like all that time I’ve been practicing shading is starting to pay off.
Sitting atop a fractal surface of black holes, Tribert tries to make Adenine, one of the molecules in DNA, but he didn’t get it quite right, probably because he got distracted by the cats. Maybe next time, Tribert.
Tribert Tries to Make Life
Doodle No. 140
8” square
Ink, highly lightfast (fade resistant) watercolor pencils and paint, and mica paint on Arches 300 GSM 100% cotton paper
If you’re a color nut like me, you know that last week, Pantone named their 2024 Color of the Year, Peach Fuzz. So for this Color Wheel Wednesday, I had to make a color wheel inspired by peach. I really like peach. It was my grandmother’s favorite and my mom digs it too. It’s warm and cheerful. It’s a color of warmth and hope. #color#MathArt#WaterColor#ColoredPencil
Dream Path, colored pencil and digital art. I woke in a dream. Stone stairs I knew not beckoned me follow. Pondering I gazed. Magic danced in the sky, evermore enticing. What venture awaited me I'll never know, awakening too soon
I’ve become infatuated with drawing flowers lately. I draw from several photos at a time in an attempt not to simply copy but to understand their structure. Then I redraw the plants using my drawings and memory of the structure of the plants. Here you can see a page of studies of various plants and a painting done from one of the studies. The scarlet pimpernel is a tiny plant you’d barely notice if it weren’t for its bright orange flowers. #watercolor#coloredpencil#botanical
It’s been a challenging month, and I haven’t had a lot of success with my gouache painting lately. So I decided to go back to my old style of doodling cats and aliens on black holes with ink and colored pencils, where life makes sense and I know what I’m doing.
Infinite Holes with Two Cats
Doodle No. 139
Watercolor pencils, ink, mica paint on 6” square cotton paper.
This one took me a while to complete, but I enjoyed the process. It has gouache, watercolor and collage elements on it. I hope next year to start a vegetable garden on our new home.
Grandma and ram, with colored pencils. That was back a couple of years, when I wanted to write and illustrate a children's book. Then AI came along, and destroyed that market segment completely.
I love painting "cottagecore" themes these days... The style has seen a resurgence in the last 10 years, as more people are dreaming of leaving the big city, and living a more traditional life in nature.
Last prompt for the Haunted Garden Art Challenge before the free prompt.
Prompt: "Dark Moth."
Drew a Vine Sphinx. If you've never seen one, they're incredible. I was lucky: one landed in my backyard & I got a picture (second pic here.) They're amazing creatures & it's the largest moth I've ever seen in person.
More flower doodles… These are drawn with Albrecht Durer watercolor pencils on Tomoe River paper. The references for this piece are from Sunset’s Western Garden Book. You can see the tiny brush I use to activate the watercolor paint with water to blend the colors after I draw them onto the paper.
Caprifoliaceae (Abelia)
Yarrow (Achillea)
Pot Marigold (Calendula officinalis)
Snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus)
English Daisy (Bellis perennis) #coloredpencil#botanical#watercolor
I'd like to thank @dansup for creating Pixelfed. As an artist, for 10 years now I was basing my career primarily on IG, only to see it erode to zero reachability and zero discoverability. IG is a career destroyer now. So when I put all my efforts on Pixelfed, suddenly, I saw growth again! 100 new followers in just 3 weeks! Which proportionally to IG's 0 new followers, given the fewer number of users here, it's a big deal! It feels good again to use social media as it's supposed to be: chronologically, and tag-based. Finally, we can see, and discover things! Things are growing! Again, thank you @dansup for this service, it's awesome!
I painted this portrait of an old lady and her dog with handmade watercolors. I love that type of watercolor because it has a very matte, vintage finish compared to commercial watercolors. It's quite difficult to work with it using many layers due to its large particle size (it's ground by hand), but the final feel looks good.
Dream Path, colored pencil and digital art. I woke in a dream. Stone stairs I knew not beckoned me follow. Pondering I gazed. Magic danced in the sky, evermore enticing. What venture awaited me I'll never know, awakening too soon.
ART - https://deborah-league.pixels.com/featured/dream-path-deborah-league.html
I think this is the most complex watercolor I made so far, at least in terms of sketching. I'm happy how it came out for the most part. I wanted to make it a bit funny, given that most families are kinda like that, each person living in their own little world, even when among loved ones.