More Mini sketchbook designs

If you saw my previous post I had made some mini sketchbooks for some kiddos I knew. Well, I enjoyed making those so much I decided to make a few more but this time I came up with my own characters.... See below

Book Fun

I work with a group of kindergardners and our time together is coming to an end so to celebrate I made them mini sketchbooks. Check them out below....

Line work

For my site on Facebook called Artistic Kaleidoscope I created an image to use for the backdrop photo. I wanted to create something that had a lot of structure and design to it as well as being an image that had a simplicity to it. My final image has origami birds hanging from the branches which really completes the image. The picture shown here doesn't show that but is still a nice image.

As for this image I was doing a little sketching from a photo of a friends child. I loved how he was wearing a cowboy hat with a hoodie.

Watercolor pieces

 Here are a few more pieces I've been working on where I used water color.  The first piece is a piece depicting one of my fondest childhood memories.We would play in cardboard boxes at my best friends house almost every weekend. I choose to paint the boxes and and us playing in them in the background and then depict close ups of us in bubbles in the foreground.

These two pieces are practice pieces. I was trying to see how the medium would work with various subject matter.

Watercolor continued...

      A couple weeks ago I posted a watercolor piece I did of my cousin. Through the process of working on that piece I discovered I truly enjoy using watercolor but I didn't like the paper I was using.  So I decided to do another piece but this time around I chose to use watercolor paper instead of mixed medium paper. I see a real difference and great improvement in the quality of my work on this kind of paper. I also changed my subject matter and decided to do a portrait of my Boston Terrier.

A splash of Watercolor with a little color pencil in the mix

Hello all,
On Facebook I have been seeing a lot of artist posting works for the 3 pieces for 5 days Challenge. This inspired me to do a piece. I jumped out of my comfort zone and did a watercolor piece. I haven't messed around with real watercolor since high school so I went to my local craft store and purchased a nice watercolor set along with liquid frisket to give them a go. I'm pretty happy with my results. Still need to play around but overall I really enjoyed using this medium.

The picture below is of my cousin on the beach in Florida.

Steampunk art

So it's that time again.... deadline for our current Artistic Kaleidoscope theme!! The current theme is a piece inspired by Steampunk. I really enjoy drawing characters so for this piece I created my own steampunk character with her trusty sidekick... Monty the  flying rabbit. Okay, so he can't really fly on his own, but this hat with balloons attached does the trick!