Pencils

A bit of card making while sorting out the worktable

Photo of a watercolor painting I did for the insert in a thermal mug. Bits if paper and card stock.

A bit of double sided tape puts it together into a nice little card.

This stuck me funny because I'm using a picture of a card I made to make another card for a friend that likes to make cards too. I decided to grab the pencils and pen and add another flower to it.

Mail Art

Sometimes it's fun to let the stamp inspire my envelope design. This is done in waster color pencils.

This is just colored pencil and ink that I did on a card.

This is just a few lines from an old pen.

I made the mistake of doing the drawing first and then trying to add some color here and didn't care for the way it smudged the ink on the blue envelope but I kind of like what it did to the other one. You never quite know how things will turn out...I think that's what keeps us creating, the unexpected adds some excitement to the work. 

3 step poinsettia in watercolor pencil

1. Draw

2.Blend

3.Outline

Yes, this is another envelope corner. I couldn't resist going back and adding some leaves to it as well.

Decorating envelopes in watercolor pencil

On this one I left the area for the return address blank and then painted the rest of the tree around where I'd written it in and then painted grass around the base of the tree. It went out in the mail a couple of hours later.

Experiments in water based or soluble media

 As I began to work with the last of my flowers I thought I'd take some time to experiment with watercolor pencils and water-soluble wax pastels. These drawings combine a bit of each. 

The first drawing blended too much  so I added permanent ink outlines to give the petals some definition.

In the next attempt I started with the yellow first, then orange and finally red instead of applying them all at once and that gave me a bit more control. Not everything works the first time. Don't give up! try different types of papers or different solvents or ways of applying them. The options are endless and I'll be interested to hear where your experiments take you.