Possum Patty's Tiny Adventures: The Roger Williams Park Zoo

 

NATURE JOURNAL 2 Journaling Projects: Using Memory Snapshots on a Journal Page, Creating a Stamp to Remember Turtle Rescues

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NATURE JOURNAL Lots of Activity at the Bird Feeders! A Chipmunk Study

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NATURE JOURNAL A Quick Page to Remember Some Critters that I've Seen around the Yard!

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NATURE JOURNAL At the Shore: Oh! Them Slipper Limpets! Washed Up Surf Clam, Cockles, Not Alive-O!

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NATURE JOURNAL Who's been eating the Butterfly Banana Pudding? Gottcha! 3 Catbirds in the Clearing, What's on the Menu?

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NATURE JOURNAL The Universe Send Me a Symbol of Strength, Determination, & Persistence

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NATURE JOURNAL A Visit from a White Spirit Animal, I got to use my Thunderstorm Stamp Today

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NATURE JOURNAL What do Squirrels eat for breakfast? Why do Toads have warts? What killed that tree?

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Nature Journal - Animal Signs and Zooming in on Moss

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Nature Journal: The March Winds!

  

Nature Journal: The First Day of Spring!

Year of Beautiful Art with Sketchbook Skool: Look for my sketch of Penny the Dog!

I took the Colored Pencil: Sharpen Your Skills course. This sketch was done during Danny's Draw With Me (free) and used in the above video.

#Inktober2019 Day 1.Ring

Dip pen and paint brush with Noodlers Bulletproof Black Ink in Canson XL Bristol Smooth 100lbs.

#SBSColoredPencils #PlaysWithPencils "I choose truth over facts...." (August 2019)

Inspired by a sculpture I saw this past weekend at the Mystic Art Festival. 

The truth of this image is definitely more compelling than any fact.

Dipping the tip of Derwent Watercolour Pencils into water and going directly to the page in my Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal.

#SBSColoredPencils #PlaysWithPencils "Dip the Tip" Watercolor Pencil Fun (August 2019)

More play with the "Dip the tip of the watercolor pencil into water and go directly onto the sketchbook page with it" method.

Lots of pigment and texture!

36 set of Derwent Watercolour Pencils and a Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal.

#SBSColoredPencils #PlaysWithPencils COW ALERT! For a good cause...

  

Take the Hay Ride at Buttonwood Farm to meet the friendly Red Angus cows. Colored pencil over watercolor in my Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal.

If you love to be surrounded by sunflowers, this ride also stops in the center of the flower field. The farm's Sunflowers for Wishes program donates all of their proceeds to the Make A Wish Foundation. This year they raised almost $125,o00!

After the ride get some delicious farm fresh ice cream. And buy a bouquet of flowers for a good cause!

#SBSColoredPencils #PlaysWithPencils On the road...with a handful of colored pencils

#SBSColoredPencils  #PlaysWithPencils  Sketchbook Skool homework for the kourse Colored Pencils: Sharpen Your Skills. At the 4H Fair, Brooklyn Ct Fairgrounds. Not easy to hold a sketchbook while standing next to other people, have a selection of colored pencils in one hand and try to sketch animals that insist on being moving targets with the other. 

Let's face it, Roz Stendahl I am not. Lessons learned for next time: bring a spiral sketchbook that will fold over for easier handling and more support; choose one subject and draw that animal over and over in several positions and with different expressions until I become more comfortable with its form; try finding a comfortable place to sit or bring a chair/stool. And a drink. And maybe snacks.

That green blob is a girl in a 4H shirt waiting to show off her calf. This was all sketched from observation in real time, not posed, and shared on-line. Stuck in limbo between Nature Journaling and Urban Sketching?

Some of my Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencils. The journal is the one shown below:

#SBSColoredPencils #PlaysWithPencils A Picture Story: The Pequot (Art Process)

Inspired to color this folk tale-like picture after spending the day at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum. This is definitely not an exact copy of a piece of art at the museum, but there was a piece with figures (many more than in my small sketch) in a canoe that I was mesmerized with.

Inspired to get out bunches of colored pencils by the new Sketchbook Skool Kourse Colored Pencils: Sharpen Your Skills.

I really don't need inspiration to get out the Derwent Inktense Pencils because I love using them but I never thought to use them on Bristol Paper so that inspiration came from the Kourse. Here is the swatch test.

The spiral journal is a Canson XL Bristol Smooth with 100 lbs paper. This first picture was disappointing because I normally love to add lots of juicy washes with the Inktense pencils to get vivid colors. 

The Bristol paper would not let me do that without buckling and pilling. I added some extra color with a few Prismacolor Premier pencils to satisfy my color crave. The figures have a black outline made with a Pentel Brush pen. This pen is great and will write over waxy pencil marks and most anything else. The dark outlines were inspired by several pieces of art in the museum. 

Studio Supervisor gives final approval.

#SBSColoredPencils Blue Woodland Bunny

Having fun with colors in Sketchbook Skool's Colored Pencils: Sharpen Your Skills kourse.

These pages were done with Prismacolor Premier colored pencils in a Crescent Rendr journal. This journal has smooth paper made especially for alcohol markers.

I used an alcohol "blender" marker to smooth the colored pencil transitions.

Sketchbook Skool's Colored Pencils: Sharpen your Skills Kourse.

#SBSColoredPencil #DrawWithMe #Cute

Thursdays at noon is #DrawWithMe with Danny Gregory on YouTube. This week's theme was "Cute". While in California, Danny drew his grand-dog, Penny, on his iPad. I chose to follow along but drew with Prismacolor Premier colored pencils in a Crescent Rendr marker sketchbook. I blended the pencil marks with an alcohol marker blender.

Enrolled in Sketchbook Skool's Colored Pencils: Sharpen your Skills Kourse.

#EDiM Every Day in May 2019: 1st and 2nd: The cat in my lap...

I find my Abyssinian hard to draw. The few times that I tried she came out looking like an alien with a weirdly shaped head and oddly humongous green eyes. Therefore, I decided I would make an effort to capture what she really looks like. "Every Day in May" is a good project for a consistent daily practice to improve. The official "Every Day in May" uses prompts. I'm going to just draw my cat, but I going to do it every day in May.

May first's drawing looks like a cat, you may be thinking to yourself, but Dear, you did not see all of the aliens that were erased!

 You can find Every Day in May's list of prompts and 

and their Facebook Page here.

Derwent Graphtint Pencils in Jane Davenport's Canvas Journal.