A featured youtube video with a watercolor demonstration by Jason Hamer. This artist keeps his paints fresh and moving yet retains a lot of tight realism.
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Using the Eraser
It is an interesting effect to use the eraser over areas of texture to sculpt out the figures. The texture creatures a dimension that lends itself very nicely to this technique. 
Monday, June 6, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
The Trouble with Creative Minds
The trouble with creative minds is that they are always thinking. These are always processing whatever they see and hear and do and adding it to various categories of experience and thought to synergize it and synthesize it with other elements of to fix problems, invent, or express, usually a combination of all three. The trouble with these minds is that they rule and whenever a project needs doing, to complete the task in the mind may be more important that finishing it outwardly, so many projects may be left undone for the brain is flying to the next project. So often, the trouble with creative minds is often they don't turn off. They don't shut down when the body says it is time for bed. They don't go where you tell them to go. Paul said in the Bible, that the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace, Romans 8:6. While creative minds create with passionate energy, they need the exercise and discipline of training, and the only successful training for the mind to give it life and peace is the experience God's spirit in our spirit. The way to get the Spirit in our spirit is to call on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ! Romans 10:13 says that, "Whoever calls on the Lord will be saved." The trouble with the mind is it not yet full of the spirit. Ephesians 4:23, "Be renewed in the spirit of your mind."
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Sketchy Doodles for children's illustrations
Sketches for children's illustrations Often times I sit and doodle ideas for illustrations,characters and backgrounds mostly. These are samples, thinking doodles, a glimpse into a few moments of free thinking. It is good to give yourself room as an artist to participate in different styles of thinking. Sometimes we are too literal and we need loosening up, so we need some exercises that make us relax and enjoy the process of art. I really enjoy the memories of childhood and the sweet images from my childhood books, so one of my ways to free up my style is to just let my imagination go when I doodle. I'm not drawing a piece of fine art here, just some quick images to let go of adulthood for a moment, and go to a place that is pure imagination. For more of my children's work go to my other blogsite: http://thesowerwentouttosow.blogspot.com/  |
Fuzzy Moth |
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Little elephant takes a drink. |
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One of the circus acts was an amazing juggling spider. |
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Cat dropped his fiddle and began to dance |
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Lonely as the ice broke away from land, only the moon looked comforting. |
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Uncle Bob told the absolute funniest stories. |
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Saloon Town. |
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The land was dry except for the Billybong trees. |
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Mr. Warm and Fuzzy. |
Honing Our Art Skills - Following Others
To learn any new subject, we need to spend time to hone our skills. We usually are too loose and free or too tight and restricted. The first usually causes many accidents and the other greatly restricts the capacity that is hidden in the soul. To hone our skills means that we need to restrict or build up one area of our learning and open up the innate abilities in another part of our being and let them fly. Artists tend to be unbalanced at first, so it is good to follow others and practice what is learned from them exactly, but at the same time digging deeper in and finding the place where something innate is buried and teaching it to use its wings by the things learned from others. Without our own wings, our soul never carries us in our artwork. Without the discipline that comes from learning from others we never really learn to do things well. Explore, experiment, learn who to follow.
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| Daisy in Spring Grass digital |
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Expressions in an Children's Illustration
The facial expressions in children's work capture the attention and quickly tell the story. Children from birth focus on the face and can relate very much to the emotional elements in faces. This means a lot when verbal language is still in development and illustrations that capture the emotional elements well help to standardize the child's response and understanding of a particular word or phrase for the future. Facial expressions also demand a lot more involvement personally with any given story.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Children's Art
Children are very dear little beings to me, as they are full of fun possibilities. It is so fun to catch their interest and help them to develop in a good way. They are fresh, imaginative and love the same. Illustrating for them or creating games and crafts for them is really enjoyable to me. Please check out my art gallery blogsite http://bumbershoots-and-daisies.blogspot.com/ and Daisy Bumbershoot on facebook as well. I also feature artwork for sale periodically on Etsy http://www.etsy.com/people/DaisyBumbershoot.
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| This is Little Bull and with digital work I can modify him or put him in new settings. This is very convenient for children's illustrations or animations. |
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| Little Bull with Rose |
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| Little Bull is in a dusty field now. I think setting him in a background gives him more personality. |
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Watercolors the way I like them
Joseph Chiang demonstrates his wonderfuly, fresh, free flowing style, embrassing realism with an oriental softness that I admire very much. Check out the link to his video here.
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