These are some fun art practice pieces done yesterday and today. I've been feeling so stuck lately and resisting picking up a paint brush. Why the change yesterday, I don't know--but I'm thankful. These were all done listening to music.
The bright lime green portal piece was painted to songs from The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour' album. The other abstract was painted to songs from the Manhattan Transfer's 'The Junction' album.
The art journal page with the saying 'Mirror Mirror on the Wall' has a free-hand contour drawing of a face and body (done with one continuous line). Other lines were added later.
I had such fun listening to the great music over my earbuds--especially singing along with some of my favorites!
For fun, I've drawn one of my own photos (yes, I was dressed in a clown outfit) and added a wild and crazy background to accompany it for today's practice effort. As part of sketching the piece, it was split into four sections with two opposing diagonal lines. In terms of color choices, I've worked with color gradations for some shape sections. Can you believe, there are five major shapes in this effort? There really are -- circles, squares, trapezoids, triangles and spirals. I think the substrate is Biengfang Watercolor Paper (140 lb.). The materials used were Ohuhu markers, Micron 01 pigment ink pen, some red Stickles glitter glue for the nose, and a white Posca pen (for white dots on the face and to highlight eyes) and a yellow one (for yellow dots in the center of the flowers on the hat). There was no intention in working on this piece other than to have fun...and based on how it looks, I'd say well done!. One thing I learned is that blending with the Ohuhus i
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