Character Development – Collage Bird

Posted on August 8, 2018 by Mama Cormier

…..day 140 of 365 Days of Art

Over the long weekend I worked on Carla Sonheim’s assignment, Character Development. We had to take art papers and cut them up into random shapes….large, medium and small. Then the fun began.

I looked at all the pieces and looked for shapes to create an animal. The idea here was not to go with the first creation but continue to move pieces around and change them until you saw something that you really liked. Here is my little bird, duck, chicken going through different stages.

…..here is my final bird

From a Doodle to Flowers, a Bird and a Bee

Posted on July 12, 2018 by Mama Cormier

….day 124 for 365 Days of Art

Using watercolour I added colour to a doodle that I had made last week. This time I looked for shapes and found a bird and a whimsical bee. With other shapes I created some abstract flowers. Here is the doodle before paint.

Here is the finished piece with watercolour and some extra Micron pen detail.

From That to This

Posted on July 10, 2018 by Mama Cormier

…..day 123 of 365 Days of Art

I took another doodle and added colour but this time I used watercolour and I made random circles and ovals all over the page. When it dried I added line detail with my Micron pen and I created a page of abstract flowers.

I made the doodle last week and I thought I had taken a photo of it before I started painting it at the cottage but apparently I hadn’t. I think you get the idea.

365 Days of Art – Quick Flower Sketches

Posted on June 12, 2018 by Mama Cormier

…..days 111 to 113

I made these in my sketch book and I’m wishing I had done them on watercolour paper or used one of my sketch books with heavier paper. I also discovered that the black marker that I used bled a little when I added the watercolour but it is what it is and it’s all a learning experience.

365 Days of Art – Adding Colour and Collage

Posted on June 6, 2018 by Mama Cormier

…..days 109 and 110

Once again I went back to one of my sketchbooks and added colour to one of my one-line drawings of cats and I added some collage detail. For the collage I spent some time creating some colourful art papers with oil pastels and then cut out droplet shapes. On the blank page in front of the cats I created collage piece using this paper.

Abstract Studies in Watercolour

Posted on June 1, 2018 by Mama Cormier

….days 103 to 108 of 365 Days of Art

I love colour but this isn’t as easy as it appears. I think I have a tendency to overthink and overwork my colours. In the end I added charcoal lines and shapes and I liked it much better.

Playing With Complementary Colours

Posted on May 26, 2018 by Mama Cormier

….day 97 of 365 Days of Art

A couple of days ago I was watching a video on YouTube on how complementary colours ‘vibrate’ when placed next to each other. Jean Lurssen does a series of watercolour videos with exercises that help the painter loosen up and experiment with a number of different techniques. Check her out.

365 Days of Art – Yellow

Posted on May 11, 2018 by Mama Cormier

….day 90

A few days ago Carla Sonheim posted a prompt. It was a quote from the artist Pierre Bonnard. I have to admit that I had never heard of him before but he managed to make a living from his art in the early 1900s right up to the 1940s while living in France.

The quote was “One cannot have too much yellow”.

I decided to take a page of one-liner drawings and add some colour with paint and collage. I painted the background with yellow watercolours and then I cut up paper to add texture and visual interest to the flowers. After that I took markers and conte pencils and added more lines and squiggly detail.

365 Days of Art – Tulips

Posted on May 8, 2018 by Mama Cormier

…..day 88

I’m back to sketching and after completing these tulips I decided they needed some colour. Out came my watercolours and in a few minutes my sketch was transformed.

Adding Some Colour – Day 67

Posted on April 7, 2018 by Mama Cormier

……experimenting with watercolour

Sometimes I’m not sure whether I should add colour to my sketches or not. This evening I took a chance and put some colour into my daffodils. Do you have a preference? Leave the sketch as is or add colour? I’m thinking of adding colour to the bouquet that I did here.