Art and Oatmeal: Peachy Breakfast Blooms

Colors inspired by fresh Pennsylvania Peaches!

Art and Oatmeal: QOR Watercolors, Sharpie Ultrafine Black Pen, and PH Martin's Bleedproof White Ink with an old dippy pen in Strathmore 400 Series Wirebound Watercolor Art Journal.

Process

Step 1: Loose watercolor background color.

Step 2: Negative paint around a few odd shapes. Add a dash of a darker color in the center of the shapes.

Close up.

Step 3: Black lines with Sharpie Ultrafine pen.

Step 4: Add highlights with Ph Martin Bleedproof White Ink and an old dippy pen.

Step 5: Small leaves added and highlighted.

Ink:

#30Pages30Days Page 29 March 29 Art and Oatmeal and Glazed Zentangles!

Art and Oatmeal::Sktchy Challenge::Zentangles

#30Pages30Days Page 29 March 29

Neocolor II Crayons (Limited Edition Spring Soft Pastel Colors Set) and Black Sakura Glaze Pen in Jane Davenport Canvas Journal.

Love the shine and dimension of the black Sakura Glaze Pen. Maybe some people would call it "glare", but I like it! The nib is a bit on the thicker side and that makes it harder to do fine details when tangling. I just keep that in mind when thinking of a design and it usually works out. 

At the last moment I felt the urge to put some graphite shading on the eggs using a pencil and a stump.

Narrated/time lapse Art and Oatmeal:

#30Pages30Days Page 15 March 15 Sktchy Challenge Art and Oatmeal: Tiger Lilies

The antidote to all of the fussy-fussy gouache painting that I have been doing for the past few days! 

#30Pages30Days Page 15 March 15

Art and Oatmeal: Tiger Lilies

Just took the gouache paint and slapped that puppy all over the page. Let my brush dance freely from background to flower, yellow to orange, trying not to stay too long in any one spot.

Afterwards, I used a Pentel brush pen to doodle on the bloom. 

And then I attacked the bottom half of the next page which was never finished. These are lily stems, not corn stalks! All this just to get this Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal #10 finished! Well, still one more page to tidy up. 

You can watch the process here!

#30Pages30Days Page 14 March 14 Art and Oatmeal: Carol's Pitcher Plant

#30Pages30Days Page 14 March 14

Sktchy Challenge

Art and Oatmeal: Carol's Pitcher Plant

Took this picture of Carol's pitcher plant a few weeks ago. I love the form and colors on this bog plant!

I had some gouache paint out on a palette from working on Roz Stendahl's challenge of switching up an approach or medium and sticking to it for 3 days. I decided to use some of the paint this morning during Art and Oatmeal.

Experimented with putting the gouache over the black gesso which was on the first page in my Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal #10. 

Want to watch me play with the gouache (and eat oatmeal)? Watch here!

Art and Oatmeal: Spring Willow Buds

Art and Oatmeal: Spring Willow Buds

Peerless Watercolors, Kimberly 9XXB pencil, Sakura Black Glaze Pen in Jane Davenport Canvas Journal.

Oatmeal and sketching: see the process here:

Art and Oatmeal: Birthday Bloom Breakfast Doodle

Art and Oatmeal: A Primrose in the Jane Davenport Canvas Journal. Watercolors, Lamy Pen with Noodler's Bulletproof Black Ink, Gelly Roll White Pen.

The local nursery gives out free plants as birthday gifts. For February the plant is a Primrose. This is my birthday flower for 2018.

Click on the video below to watch the process!

Art and Oatmeal and the Green Man: Ink-A-Doodle

Lamy pen in Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal.

Working on the last few unfinished pages in Journal #10.

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Art and Oatmeal: Opening a Kinder Joy Egg and Sketch

Art and Oatmeal: Opening a Kinder Joy Egg and Sketch!

One side of the egg has a creamy chocolatey treat!

The other side has a toy! This toy panther is a game. Watch the video to see how inept a possum is at opening eggs and playing with children's toys.

Morning Yogi Teabag wisdom: May this day be the day to lead us to peace, to happiness, and to JOY!

Watercolors in a Jane Davenport Canvas 6X9 Journal.

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Art and Oatmeal: What's a Kinder Joy egg?

Art and Oatmeal

and a 

Kinder Joy egg!

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Art and Oatmeal: Bananas and a New Jane Davenport Journal

Painting very ripe bananas in a new Jane Davenport Canvas journal during morning oatmeal.

Watercolors in a Jane Davenport Canvas journal. See information below.

Art and Oatmeal: A Friend's Freesia

Sketching in the kitchen with Kay. She had a lovely Freesia! Watercolors in a Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal.

During Art and Oatmeal the next day, I decided I wanted to sketch the Freesia again trying a different color and composition.

I thought I wanted lighter pink flowers but in the end, I liked the original darker purple flowers better! I painted fewer leaves in this version, and I like the "airier" feel to the composition. So it's the flowers from the first picture and the leaves from the second one! Always find something you love about your art, even if it is just one square inch!

Speaking of one square inch, there was an oops - a dark green blob. And in the spirit of Carolyn Dube, I took it as an "Outstanding Opportunity Presenting Suddenly" to add a lively insect to the sketch.

Art and Oatmeal: Trim the Tree Doodle "The Movie"

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Art and Oatmeal with inspiration from the inside of a Yogi brand tea box

Morning doodle while eating my oatmeal with Honeycrisp apple slices, cinnamon, and brown sugar.

First colorful splashes of watercolor.

Then ink doodles inspired by the design inside a box of Yogi brand tea. Can you find the dragonfly?

Blue flower doodle.

A fish and a snail.

Fun designs and...

Quirky characters.

Ignore the hole in the center! 

That will become part of my "tunnel" journal page.