I had some textured card stock and garden catalogs to get rid of so I decided to make note cards out of them.
Writing letters is still one of my favorite hobbies so I got my colored pencils and markers out to see how I could decorate them up.
As you can see by the brown areas, pencil just didn't cover well enough. Markers worked really well so I'll continue to work with them.
This card started with a picture from a garden catalog and then I drew over pats of it and added petals and leaves with marker.
This is my favorite of this last bunch of cards. Some simple drawing around the edges and marker around that gave it a really nice look.
I'm also truing some things that i haven't really done before. I'd been saving that old Swedish painting pattern since the early 1990's and may try it with the right colors of paints next instead of just the markers that I had on hand.
There's no real explanation for this one except that I was trying something different with flowers.
It's always good to stretch yourself and shake up your regular routine. Give it a try!
Inspiration can come from anywhere. Your house plants and even your junk mail.
Flower and garden catalogs can be used in many ways. Sometimes when I'm too tired to draw pictures from it. I just cut out the pictures and arrange them in ways that create new pictures from them.
On this day I started with a simple watercolor that I outlined with markers.
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