Started out with no plan on my Mixed Media - Art Journal and ended up drawing Sunflowers and alot of Watercolor and Pastels...

My Sunflowers

Started out with pencil

Started coloring in with Caran D'Arche Neocolor II

Took a paint brush and water and below is what it looked like

Added more colors

And more color

Then pulled out my Pitt Pen Markers

Finally i pulled out my Rembrandt Pastels

And with my finger I played with those pastels...

Took my Pitt Markers and did more filling out and filling in the sun flower seeds

Final look.

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Alot of New Drawing... - Sharing my Mixed media & Art Journal with all... - My Mermaids

Since i'm so far behind I am just going to show some photos of the drawing's I have been doing lately...  Got a few video's I need to edit - and then will get everything caught up.

Products used above are:  Pencil, Colored Pencils, Charcoal, Neocolors II, Pastels, Pitt Pens

Been doing a ton of drawing... Here's a bunch of different Art Journal Pages I've created....

As I said I've been drawing and drawing... I've been self teaching myself to draw faces and I have to say I love it...   Highly suggest I would never have thought I could draw anything that even looked like a face...

Pinterest and YouTube are amazing tools...

Below if my first time using watercolor pencils.

Below is my first time using charcoal.

Below is my first time using watercolor paints.

Below is using water colors pencils, Using Caran D'Ache Neocolor II, and Gouache Paints, Pitt Pens

Finally below was my 1st attempt at Pastels

I hope you enjoy - and really hope you grab a pencil or whatever and you start drawing...

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Mixed Media - Art Journal 4-29-13 Newest Face Drawing...

I can't figure out if I love actually drawing faces - or I love working hard to learn more and get it right.  Maybe a bit of both.

Here's the newest lesson.

First I started playing with my new Pencils and I love them.

GretaColor Monolith I used 6B, 8B and then 9B

 Below is darken in. a bit more - and then I started adding color with Neocolor II 

Did a few different colors on each section - and then used the water pen to blend it.

Also included Koi Water Colors Pocket Field Sketch Box - by Sakura Color - I love it.

Watered pen used a bit here.

A bit more blending.

Darken a bit more.

A final photo...

And i'm very proud of the nose.

Going to use her in my new art journal page...

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Mixed Media Art Journal 4-3-13 Art Makes Me Happy

So here's a my journaling for today....  What I like most about this page other than the title - Art Makes Me happy is the fact that I total freehanded everything on it.  The flowers...  and the birds - this is a big step for me... and I totally am so proud of them.

I take the Life Class 2013 by Tamara Laporte

Week 14 - was a series of Quirky Birds

This isn't my lesson I have to do still do that - but after watching her lesson - I got motivated to do something with birds.

I did this in my Creative Journaling book - which I love.... 

And I used put the Caran D'Ache Neocolor II

used water to paint them on the page

pulled out my wood stencil by Crafter's Workshop

and colored modeling paste

And then stickers - "art makes me happy"

and then had fun with paint - drawing the flowers

and below I explain my birds.

 Check out my birds up close..  I hand drawn with pencil.  Then I painted - didn't like the color - so I cut out book paper and glue it down - painted over it - still was not happy - and then put modeling paste and painted that - and got to the point I loved them.