A new process video - illustrating a woodpecker!
Hello art followers new and dear.
I would like to share with you if you have not seen it through social media, a video I put together showing some of my drawing process.
I will be posting much more small art videos to my TikTok, but if you are not a social media user, I will continue to post my favorites here to my blog.
For this illustration, I began the layout with my Tombow markers. I have had this collection of markers for close to a decade and keep adding color by color, so now many of the colors are a bit dry. I supplemented the colors with Arteza brush markers.
To add depth at the end I went in with Micron black ink pens. I also used a Sakura gelly roll souffle pen in white to pull highlights! At some point in the process I also used a regular old HB pencil to make sure I had the shape exactly as I wanted.
Thank you for joining me in a discussion of my process!
the story of my left-handed mini series of paintings
6 special pieces for me. I painted all of these as art therapy as I experienced extremely limited mobility of my right arm for several months due to a fibro flare.
Since this series I use my left arm liberally in art making, writing, and all aspects of life.
the whole series!
So as not to overwhelm the small pieces, I used my condensed signature, a capital M.
Each piece was painted over several sessions. First I explored directly with washes, liquid watercolor droplets, and whatever gestural strokes felt right with my intensely high pain levels of that time.
Next, over a series of sessions, I emphasized color ways, added subtle details, and carved forms.
Finally, months later when I had undergone significant healing of nerve/muscle injury, I was able to meticulously paint along the forms with black acryla-gouache, as is my working process of this kind of series.
The exception to this way of working is the dream seascape which instead I framed in black.
enjoy this AI-generated suggestion from Photoshop Express.
Thanks for joining me to learn a little more about my life and its affects on my process!