Creative Tuesdays - Little Birds

Still trying to hone my skills with watercolours and have discovered that they do rather have a life of their own, sometimes a bit hit and miss as well.  More misses than hits at the moment! Things I have found is that you have to be patient with watercolours as they do take time to dry (this I find hard), especially when using wet on wet and to leave well alone once paint is drying, no titivating!  One big surprise was the watercolour paper, it certainly makes a difference using a better quality and not all papers react to the paint in the same way.

So with Little Birds being the challenge over at Creative Tuesdays I painted a few, not all with the same success I might add. These were the one I liked the best.

 This one might not be a little bird, but it was done on a little piece of paper 2.5x3.5 inches.

Pen lines added after the paint.

 

A very loose pencil sketch with paint added over the top.  Smudged splogges are optional!

An acrylic ink one, dropping colour into wet areas.  I just love the effect that the spreading blue gives on this, just like fluffy feathers. It gets very exciting as you have no control whatsoever!  I have a fascination using inks this way, as you cannot predict the outcome.

I have not just been painting birds, oh no, flowers by the bucket load.  I liked this one so much I actually framed it.  Now that is a first for me! Framing my work.

Sorry for the rather long post but I am having such fun experimenting with my watercolours.

There should be a flock of birds over on the CT blog, go check then out.

Creative Tuesdays - Bottle

This time the callenge for Creative Tuesdays is bottle.

When I was a child it would be a common sight to see blue tits pecking away at the foil of milk bottles to get to the cream  This seems to very rarely happen now. I think this is because there are so few deliveries of milk to the doorstep any more and the fact that the milk has changed in how it is produced. So this activity is something that we are sadly losing in the UK.

I have come across some fabulous gouache paint, so thought I would give it a try instead of my trusted acrylics and the whole thing turned out less whimiscal than normal. Not a polka dot in sight! I am already having withdrawals!

Pop over to Mr T's blog to see other bottles.

More whimsical birds for my little art book

Through making this little art book, I have realised that I like to keep themes going in an art book, hence I seem to have a lot of books on the go all at the same time, with not many filled.  Because this is a little book with 10 pages I don't find it so daunting and have completed the book with whimsical bird drawings, half now waiting to be painted.  This makes me feel that I have actually completed a project and will have a little decorative piece of art as well.

These are the two latest birds.

For the month of January, Micki at The Secret Hermit organised The Big Fat January Mail Art Swap, where on receipt of a piece of your art she would send one of her fabulous paintings in return. This was the one I received which I absolutely love.  Thanks Micki!

This was the one that I sent her using my recycled art theme.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend!

Creative Tuesdays - Mistletoe

Mistletoe is this week's challenge for Creative Tuesdays.  For some reason a reindeer was desperate to show his face, waiting for his lady love to come along and make his day. As he seems to have been waiting a while he donned his scarf and leg warmers to keep the cold out, although I think the birds are keeping themselves warm.

Painted with acrylics and marker pen he stands at 6.5 inches.

Pop over to Mr T's blog on Tuesday to check out all the other mistletoe art.

Show and tell Saturday - Booted birdie

Hi everyone, I have been busy working on my Zazzle store which still needs fine tuning but is here if anyone wants to take a peak, or I have a link on the right bar of my blog.

I wanted to try out a new sketch pad to see how it worked with acrylics and markers. So I quickly painted the following sketch this morning.  This pad was lovely to draw and paint on, didn't buckle and the marker did not bleed, so I think it is a winner. I think that a version of this sketch may find its way into my store.

I have a thing at the moment for magenta and turquoise.

Why not pop over to Artists in Blogland to check out the action. The weather in the UK is glorious at the moment, so I am heading off outside.  Wonderful weekend to everyone.