When You Lose Someone You Love

One of my favorite artist is Joanne Fink. Joanne is the author of many Zentangle books available through Amazon.

The first book I purchased from Joanne was Flowers which has inspired me to do my own creative drawing of my favorite subjects, flowers.

You can see the inspiration from Flowers specially in this drawing.

Here is a compilation of the 4 drawing I completed. I find that the time I spend creating these pieces to be very relaxing and it allows my mind to wonder.

If you aren't familiar with Kickstarter.com, it is a website that allows creative people such as artist, musicians, engineers, etc. a place to showcase their ideas and if enough people support that idea by funding it with a pledge as small as $1.00 and up. If a project is funded by pledges through Kickstarter each individual will receive finished versions of the project depending on the level they chose.  Please visit Kickstarter's FAQ for more information.

So what does Kickstarter have to do with Joanne Fink? Well, she has launched a project for her book When You Lose Someone You Love 

This photo has been posted with the permission of Joanne Fink

All of Joanne's work is heartfelt with many quotes in her beautiful calligraphy. Many of her books are meant to be colored or for the owner to complete the images with their own zentangle creations.

I encourage you to join me in supporting Joanne's project and hopefully receive your own copy of the completed book. The project is very close to being funded.

Copic Markers for Card Makers - Day 7

Today we learned how to work with difficult colors such as black and white. The reason these colors are difficult to use is because they are either under saturated or over saturated with color and difficult to give dimension to.

The first image we colored was a flower. I used red, which was the second example in the lesson. I didn't have the colors to create a white flower. Once I obtain them, I am going to give it a try and I will post them here. Because the two colors of red were so far apart on the color spectrum, I decided to blend them together on an acrylic block to get a happy medium.

The second image we colored was this cute little Robot Vampire. Isn't this just something that a child would want to be for Halloween? Sometimes it's too difficult to choose between two, so lets do both!  

This photo shows how we were able to use shades of black/gray to give more dimension to the image.  It also taught us how the use of different grays will look like completely different colors by using a warm gray next to a cool gray. 

Copic Markers for Card Makers - Day 6

In day 6 of Copic Markers for card makers we learned how to color critters. The two examples I have are dogs and foxes. 

While it's always acceptable to color a critter a natural color, I don't see why you wouldn't want to color a dog any color of the rainbow, so I did.  In the first two examples I used non-traditional colors, in this lesson we learned how to use the colorless blender to remove excess color from your project. You can see an example of that in the first turquoise dog where I used the colorless blender to make spots.  

On the last dog "Sox" I used the colorless blender to remove color from her left paw (right when we're looking at her) and I gave her snout a few freckles too. 

My ideas for Sox come from my very own dog Sox who is 15 years old, here is a photo of her at the right. I just realized, I gave her wrong paw the white sock. Ooops. I'm sure she will forgive me, specially if I give her a scratch or two behind her ear. :) 

Here are the foxes I colored, again I removed some color for highlights and color variances in their coats. They're adorable aren't they? 

Copic Markers for Card Makers - Day 5

First, I would like to apologize for not posting earlier. It's been one of those weeks and today is Friday and I have had an opportunity to catch up on my class videos and homework.


In today's video I learned about coloring people, their skin, hair and clothing.  The first image shows how I learned to combine various colors to achieve different skin tones and hair.

Here you can see the various skin tones and hair colors I tried.
















Then I moved onto practicing the hair, skin and clothing on the ballerina's to the left.  I'm very happy the way they turned out, specially since this is the first time I have tried.