Kiss With Fescu Tangle

Organic and botanical tangles are a lot of fun to draw. One day I stumbled upon Kiss (by Olga Barko) in a YouTube video by Melinda Barlow, CZT. While I looked for step-outs, I was unable to find them illustrated on a sheet anywhere. However, the linked video demonstrates the steps for drawing Kiss.

As you can see below, I drew Kiss tangles every-which-way to cover the square. Then I added strands of Fescu to fill in the gaps and to tie the piece together. Lastly I added shading. In this case I used a larger square sheet by Strathmore (if I recall correctly), not a standard Fabriano tile.

Kiss and Fescu Tangle
Kiss and Fescu Tangle

Quick and Easy Autumn FB Cover

With Autumn upon us, I will show you this Facebook cover that I made using Photoshop color blending brushes and color palettes from Creators Couture. These brushes are so cool and easy to use, and they produce beautiful results! For this particular project, I followed a YouTube tutorial. I used the same assets for the most part, but repurposed the project to make a Facebook cover instead of the square background (second example) depicted in the video.

Hello Autumn

I had a lot of fun painting this image with brushes from the Creators Couture  Artistic Autumn Brush Collection.  To ensure consistency  with the fall theme, I also used one of the lovely color palettes that come with the collection. The gold effects were done with a gold layer style from the 24K Gold collection. The gold really adds texture and sparkle to the composition! The typeface is Atmosphere.

Happy Creating!

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Ready to Blog Again

After a fairly long absence from attending this website, I’m back and ready to blog again. Much has happened while I’ve been “away” (Covid-19, loss of job, life in general). Rest assured that I wasn’t idle when it comes to pursuing my passion for art, design, and photography during my absence!

Moving forward I will share some of the things that learned, and some of artwork that I worked on.

I’ll start with a digital art journal page that I created during the Covid shutdown in early 2020.

Art Journal – Covid page

For this page I used various resources from Tangie Baxter & Co. (background, edge) and DigitalScrapBook.com (stamps, washi tape, map, other elements). The font is Sears Tower. It was helpful to engage in some relevant art therapy at the time.