The background texture was made my stenciling over a large piece of lace… Heavy gel medium mixed into the paint for more texture… If you turn it upside down…. Dried orchids… Applied directly to the board with the gel medium… The long strands of her hair repeat the shape […]
Tag: ZIG pens
Little Turtle By the Sea
Another baby turtle for a special little girl in Germany. Her mother gave me some of her favorites to work from: the colors pink and purple, and the sea-side with sunshine and seashells. Just like the baby turtle with cheetah print that I painted for Miss B in California, this […]
Caged Thoughts
Ladybugs and Toadstools
These are some drawings I did recently. Not sure what to do with them yet. They were drawn with ZIG pens onto old blank book pages and then colored with pencils. I flipped through some books and found some cute phrases that went along with the drawings. Maybe I could […]
Turtle Girl II
Each time I draw a girl finding a turtle it turns out a little bit different from the time before. I’m having *fun* so I’m just going to keep going with these turtle girls. Just like my first Turtle Girl from last week, I transferred my design from the sketchbook […]
A Christmas Card and a Coloring Page
When it come to re-working a drawing, I do it the old-fashioned way: ZIG pens, tracing paper, and a fair amount of White-Out. Then I make masks to layer over the drawing. This allows me stamp and ink the background later on. I took a snowflake stamp (Stampin’ Up!) and […]
Moonlight Maiden
I used Derwent Colour Soft pencils and ZIG Millenium pens to draw this maiden in the moonlight. I’m not a big fan of the scary stuff this time of year. In fact, the only witch I’ve ever been fond of is this one. But I do like to draw and […]