I am participating in an art challenge where the theme is “Under the Sea.” I found a lot of illustrations in my sketchbooks with this theme that I wanted to share in one place.
I called this series of tiny art Beach Life, which isn’t under the sea but close enough to add to my list of favorite ocean-related illustrations from my library.
In order to continue my mission to draw all the time and fill up more sketchbooks in 2016, I’m working on a new weekly theme to do daily drawings, while experimenting with watercolor. At the end of each week, it’s nice to have lots of new drawings and a full page illustration.
It’s been great fun been trying to draw all sorts of animals this year. This week, a big Sailfish and schools of Mackerel took over my sketchbook page. I used watercolor for the base layers and all the outlining and details. I’m growing to really love illustrating with my paints and tiny paintbrushes.
Can’t wait to turn this sketchbook page into fun new digital art! Happy drawing!
Terri
Click here to see my Week 1 drawings: Arctic Wildlife
Click here to see my Week 2 drawings: Horns and Hoofs
Click here to see my Week 3 drawings: African Safari
Click here to see my Week 4 drawings: Wool and Fiber
Click here to see my Week 5 drawings: Whales
Click here to see my Week 6 drawings: Bears
Click here to see Week 7 drawings: Owls
Click here to see Week 8 drawings: Wild Animals
Click here to see Week 9 drawings: Waterfowl
Click here to see Week 10 drawings: Waterbirds
Click here to see Week 11 drawings: Octopus
Click here to see Week 12 drawings: Sea Life
Click here to see Week 13 drawings: Coral Reef
Click here to see Week 14: Shorebirds
Click here to see Week 15: Saltwater Fish
In order to continue my mission to draw all the time and fill up more sketchbooks in 2016, I’m working on a new weekly theme to do daily drawings, while experimenting with watercolor. At the end of each week, it’s nice to have lots of new drawings and a full page illustration.
It’s been great fun been trying to draw all sorts of animals this year, so my latest theme is Saltwater Fish. I used watercolor, and tried hard not to use my black Micron pens for any outlining or details. I’m growing to really love illustrating with my paints and tiny paintbrushes.
Can’t wait to turn this sketchbook page into fun new digital art! Happy drawing!
Terri
Click here to see my Week 1 drawings: Arctic Wildlife
Click here to see my Week 2 drawings: Horns and Hoofs
Click here to see my Week 3 drawings: African Safari
Click here to see my Week 4 drawings: Wool and Fiber
Click here to see my Week 5 drawings: Whales
Click here to see my Week 6 drawings: Bears
Click here to see Week 7 drawings: Owls
Click here to see Week 8 drawings: Wild Animals
Click here to see Week 9 drawings: Waterfowl
Click here to see Week 10 drawings: Waterbirds
Click here to see Week 11 drawings: Octopus
Click here to see Week 12 drawings: Sea Life
Click here to see Week 13 drawings: Coral Reef
Click here to see Week 14: Shorebirds
In order to continue my mission to draw all the time and fill up more sketchbooks in 2016, I’m working on a new weekly theme to do daily drawings, while experimenting with watercolor. At the end of each week, it’s nice to have lots of new drawings and a full page illustration.
It’s been great fun been trying to draw all sorts of animals, so my latest theme was Shorebirds. I used watercolor, and tried hard not to use my black Micron pens for any outlining or details. I feel like I’m really learning to work with my paints and getting to know my paintbrushes better.
Can’t wait to turn this sketchbook page into fun new digital art! Happy drawing!
Terri
Click here to see my Week 1 drawings: Arctic Wildlife
Click here to see my Week 2 drawings: Horns and Hoofs
Click here to see my Week 3 drawings: African Safari
Click here to see my Week 4 drawings: Wool and Fiber
Click here to see my Week 5 drawings: Whales
Click here to see my Week 6 drawings: Bears
Click here to see Week 7 drawings: Owls
Click here to see Week 8 drawings: Wild Animals
Click here to see Week 9 drawings: Waterfowl
Click here to see Week 10 drawings: Waterbirds
Click here to see Week 11 drawings: Octopus
Click here to see Week 12 drawings: Sea Life
Click here to see Week 13 drawings: Coral Reef
In order to continue my mission to draw all the time and fill up more sketchbooks in 2016, I’m working on a new weekly theme to do daily drawings, while experimenting with watercolor. At the end of each week, it’s nice to have lots of new drawings and a full page illustration.
It’s been great fun been trying to draw all sorts of animals, so last week’s theme was Coral Reef. I used gouache this time which always produces brighter colors, with a splashes of watercolor. I tried hard not to use my black Micron pens for any outlining or details, which was a good challenge in working with paint and tiny paintbrushes.
Can’t wait to turn this sketchbook page into fun new digital art! Happy drawing!
Terri
Click here to see my Week 1 drawings: Arctic Wildlife
Click here to see my Week 2 drawings: Horns and Hoofs
Click here to see my Week 3 drawings: African Safari
Click here to see my Week 4 drawings: Wool and Fiber
Click here to see my Week 5 drawings: Whales
Click here to see my Week 6 drawings: Bears
Click here to see Week 7 drawings: Owls
Click here to see Week 8 drawings: Wild Animals
Click here to see Week 9 drawings: Waterfowl
Click here to see Week 10 drawings: Waterbirds
Click here to see Week 11 drawings: Octopus
Click here to see Week 12 drawings: Sea Life
It’s been awhile since I’ve made tiny art, so I’m excited to be able to share some new work.
Since I was in Florida recently for Spring Break, I still have the ocean, the beach and sea life on my mind, so I went with a coral reef theme for this week’s set of tiny art.
It’s fun to experiment on a small canvas (2.5″ x 3.5″) with a variety of art supplies – this week I used my gouache palette, Micron pens and white Gelly Roll pen to add a few details.
I try to post these tiny pieces of art regularly on Instagram if you want to follow along. I love the challenge of coming up with a weekly theme and working on a small canvas, so I’m hoping to continue this regular art practice in 2016.
Happy drawing!
Terri
In order to continue my mission to draw all the time and fill up more sketchbooks in 2016, I’m working on a new weekly theme to do daily drawings, while experimenting with watercolor. At the end of each week, it’s nice to have lots of new drawings and a full page illustration.
It’s been great fun been trying to draw all sorts of animals, so last week’s theme was Sea Life, with a splash of watercolor in the background and more hand lettering practice. I love drawing ocean life so I’m going to keep going with this theme.
Can’t wait to turn this sketchbook page into fun new digital art! Happy drawing!
Terri
Click here to see my Week 1 drawings: Arctic Wildlife
Click here to see my Week 2 drawings: Horns and Hoofs
Click here to see my Week 3 drawings: African Safari
Click here to see my Week 4 drawings: Wool and Fiber
Click here to see my Week 5 drawings: Whales
Click here to see my Week 6 drawings: Bears
Click here to see Week 7 drawings: Owls
Click here to see Week 8 drawings: Wild Animals
Click here to see Week 9 drawings: Waterfowl
Click here to see Week 10 drawings: Waterbirds
Click here to see Week 11: Octopus
In order to continue my mission to draw all the time and fill up more sketchbooks in 2016, I’m working on a new weekly theme to do daily drawings, while experimenting with watercolor (no grid this week!). At the end of each week, it’s great to have seven new drawings and a full page illustration.
Last week’s theme was Whales, with a light blue splash in the background.
Can’t wait to turn this sketchbook page into fun new digital art! Happy drawing!
Terri
Click here to see my Week 1 drawings: Arctic Wildlife
Click here to see my Week 2 drawings: Horns and Hoofs
Click here to see my Week 3 drawings: African Safari
Click here to see my Week 4 drawings: Wool and Fiber
Thank goodness for the break in the semester we had last week, when I made time to work on this project. I am excited to share my finished Colors of the Ocean quilt!
I started this project as a part of Cherry’s quilt-along.
I made progress pretty quickly by finishing the top. And then it sat for awhile.
It was wonderful having time over spring break to quilt it and bind it. I love how the straight line quilting turned out. And I adore these colors. I am definitely sold on this modern look of solids and straight line quilting.
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