A sketch from last night...

It's supposed to be Petra. I think I'll work on it a little more, but I thought I'd take a photo in case this is as far as I get! There's a lot more detail than I thought!

What are you drawing?

Shalom and have fun with your art! :)

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!

I chortled in my joy!

I really should start an art blog called "Cheapskate Art". I'm on the lookout for cheap materials that work for my drawing. With a tight budget I can't often spend lots of money on art materials. I've been looking for a good waterproof drawing pen that I can use watercolors with without the ink running all over.

Today I purchased two different types of Sharpies. They are "water resistant". I was looking for the word "waterproof", but these were cheap so I took a chance!

Here's the result after drawing a little lion-man face. (Don't know where THAT came from. Just started doodling.) Then I slopped on some watercolor and TA-DAH! The ink stayed put!

The Sharpies do bleed through slightly. At least the heavier one that I used for the facial features.

But that's okay with me. I usually only use one side of the page when I use watercolors because this is a sketchbook and the paper gets sort of wavy anyway.

These are the pens I used. The ultrafine one is a marker and the fine one is a pen. Hence, the ultrafine lines are actually heavier than the fine ones. I wasn't aware of the differences in Sharpie's markers and pens. Now I know.

 

I think the pens will deliver a nicer line, but they kind of scratch over the surface of the paper. Will they wear out quickly? My quest continues!

Happy artmaking on the cheap!

Shalom for now...

Finally, a zentangle!

It's been a while since I've taken The Diva's Challenge, so I decided to take part this week. The challenge was to design a zentangle using a box within a box (or something like that!). Here's my interpretation...

You'll notice that I made a watercolor "smear" in the background. I was actually just doodling with watercolors and didn't know what to do with them, so I used this one as my background.

To see other's answers to this week's challenge go to the Diva's blog!

Shalom, and I hope it stops snowing SOON!  :D

Trying to capture a sunrise...

I had a hankering to capture a sunrise in colored pencil. I didn't do as great a job as I'd hoped, but here are the results. Two sunrises on one page!

I had a hard time getting good copies with my camera. The colored pencil was too light. Oh well...

That's all for tonight. Shalom to all!

Saturday sketches...

It's been a day of little snow flurries, a little rain, etc. Seems like I spent most of the day being tired, then took a nap and now I'm ready to go at 8 p.m.!

Are any of you getting these annoying pop ups at the bottom of your pages? I think I have a bug in my computer. I hate when that happens!!

Anyway, here are the two little bird sketches I did just now.

 

Take your place on the slanty top desk!

Ah! Hubby snuck me some ice cream! Better eat it up!

 



Have a great evening! I think I'll read a little while Bob's watching basketball!

Shalom!

Today's sketch...

A small vignette from my desk...

It's probably a mistake to show a photo of my model, but here it is...

This was a lot of fun! I wasn't worrying about making it perfect. My perspective is certainly off quite a bit, but I was just relaxed, making a quick sketch. I need to do this more often!

Shalom, all!

WOYWW!

So What's on YOUR Workdesk this Wednesday? That's what we're trying to find out as we hop from blog to blog all around the world. You can join the fun at Julia's Stamping Ground! Come on!

My usual desktop flotsam...

 

 

 

A quick sketch from this morning...

 

 

Still working on that book dream...

 

 

Reading some other people's books to get an idea how to write my own...

 

 

And a little stash of Easter candy!

 

 

Mostly I'm thinking creative thoughts about the story I'm working on, but I'm going to try to do a little sketching every day, even if it's just a very small sketch like the one above!

 

Hope you're all having a great WOYWW!

 

Now off to Julia's to follow some links! :)

 

Shalom!