Sunday, October 5, 2008

A Work of Art for My Ezine


I send out an ezine (an online magazine) quarterly at least, and I'm trying to send it out bimonthly. It's always a lot of work, but it's work that I enjoy, and the discipline of sending it out keeps me exploring new ideas.


The ezine always includes freebies--downloadable art or patterns. Plus, a layout or two, and a project.


Recently I saw an online tutorial in how to use colored markers. I was inspired by the blended color effects the instructor could get, but I still am, um, colored marker challenged. They are typically too dark for me to use well.


However, I love water-color pencils. I like how fluid they are, and how well I can shade with them. Most often, I sketch the design in pencil, color with the water-color pencils, let the image dry, and go back over it with regular colored pencils and pens.


Here's one of the images I created this weekend, a black cat. I hope you like him! If you want me to send you the Adobe file, email me at savetales@aol.com and put CAT in the subject line. I think he's perfect for use on a Halloween page or a Halloween card.


What do you think? Is he the cat's meow?

That said, I wanted to create some seasonal images because I'm getting together

2 comments:

Monica Ferris said...

Sometimes I try to get creative and blow it. For example, I had this very cute idea of taking the little bits of leftover chicken fabric and making a chicken out of them, a little red for the comb and wattles, blue-green for the nect feathers, a stripey pattern for the wing, etc. I thought to use the zig-zag on my sewing maching to put it all together. But it didn't work, the zig-zag take a more delicate touch than I have. So then I thought I'd stitch it together, but it slid around and the shape got all wrong. So I bought some fuse fabric and fused the pieces with a hot iron onto a piece of cloth, which I cut out and am now stitching with bold black lines onto the aida cloth. It's not great, but at least it's good. I'll post a picture when I finish. And next time, I'll stick to cross stitch or needlepoint.

Joanna Campbell Slan said...

Monica,

My sister is an art teacher. She's always telling me "there are no mistakes," and I try to do as you did to figure out what to do with what I did.

I would like to see a photo of your chicken.