Showing posts with label drawing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drawing. Show all posts

Friday, November 25, 2016

NaBloPoMo 2016 Day 24


Over the past few months I have been following a Zen Art Challenge on Facebook and have been loving it!!  I gives me a little time each day to relax and learn something new.  Many days it takes only a few minutes and some days it takes a bit longer if the design is complicated for me.  Either way it has been fun!  I joined up in September and have been following on a "mostly" daily basis since then.  I also backtracked and worked on the ones from previous months too.

I have several supplies that I use for doing my Zentanging:

1.  I love my Faber Castell Pitt Pen Set
2.  I also love my Sakura 6-Piece Pigma Micron Ink Pen Set
3.  And I love my Copic Markers Multiliners

I actually alternate between each of these pens.  I like to have the sets with multiple sized tips and use the different ones for different types of drawing and sketching.  I also need my ruler, pencil, and eraser to practice and work on the design before I commit to using pen!  I make a lot of mistakes, my artwork is far from perfect, and I love it!

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Saturday, November 5, 2016

NaBloPoMo 2016 Day 5


About a month ago I decided I wanted to play around with a 365 day art/drawing challenge.  I knew I would never get started if I waited until January 1st so I though I might as well get started right then and there!  I have done this 33 days in a row now and each day post the picture on Instagram under karens365dayartchallenge).  I am looking forward to seeing how my art progresses over the year!  I also started a 100 day mandala challenge a little while ago. I am not doing them on consecutive days but am scattering them through the rest of the creating over the year.  So far I have completed 10 mandalas.  I finally got a geometry set and my 10th mandala is actually symmetrical!  All the rest have been a bit wonky,  I am finding this whole challenge and process to be a lot of fun!  It relaxes me and it has let me accept the imperfect - which the majority of my art is :)  Here are some pictures of some of my artwork from this challenge:

My second mandala
My newest mandala