Octopus
O is for Octopus
pen ink
N is for Nightingale
Mokie Comic
She finds what she wants. 🙂
Elephant for #worldwatercolormonth
E is for Elephant!
Bear for #WorldWatercolorMonth
B is for Bear. I’ve decided to start an animal alphabet.
Orchid for #WorldWatercolorMonth
Already bending the rules a little, this is a watercolor sketch done near the end of June – but posted in July!
One of the main goals of watercolor month is to raise awareness of the need for art education and supplies for students through the Dreaming Zebra Foundation. I’ve put this link in my sidebar so you can check that out too.
Walnut Ink
This is a walnut ink drawing/painting of my friends antique buddha called “The Scholar” – also an appropriate submission for the “Illustration Friday” topic of “old”. He’s a wooden carving and as I understand it they were found in Buddhist Temples. The walnut ink is fun to draw and paint with. It’s also easy to wash out areas that you might want to change. Definitely will be doing more with the walnut ink. 🙂
#Illustration Friday
This is something I’ve been meaning to do, but never get around to doing. Every week Illustration Friday http://illustrationfriday.com/ posts a drawing prompt and people upload their response. This week the prompt is “Small” and here is my drawing:
Show
Show,don’t tell; is a writers chant. It’s hard to grasp sometimes and I found this post by Andrew Reynolds that I wanted to share that breaks it down better than most that I’ve seen.
He also said that, when giving a critique, he doesn’t just tell the person that they need to show not tell, but he shows them how to do it with an example. That’s the ultimate show don’t tell.
Andrew Reynolds post on Today’s Author:
http://todaysauthor.com/2015/06/17/showing-not-telling/
Of course this makes me feel like I should show you something so here is some hand lettering I’ve been working on: Mokie grafitti
Using All The Crayons 