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| Katniss & the Hanging Tree |
This week I received 2 envelopes full of precut ATCs in the mail from a friend. ATC stands for artist trading card. They are around 3.5" x 2.5" which is about the size of a baseball trading card. There are various groups of people who make them and trade them with each other. The one pictured above was my first one. I had just finished reading
The Hunger Games trilogy and needed to release some of what I was feeling. This little piece of paper helped me to do just that. I just started doodling with a size 005 black pen, and this is what it turned into.
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| Wisps of Summer |
Then I moved onto this card. This is a slight variation of an image that I drew ages ago, one that I want to make a tattoo out of. I've been tweaking the image in my head for several years.
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| Wings of Fire |
Then I broke out the watercolor paper and paints and did some experimenting. I haven't done any watercolor painting for 5 years, so it was nice to do a mini refresher. I let my 4 year old sprinkle salt on the wet paint. He loved watching what it did to the painting. While painting, he told me that I am a good artist because I am a good painter. So sweet (especially since I was just painting a plain background). Then when I was drawing the picture below he said that I am a good artist because I'm a good drawer. Melts my heart.
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| Starfish Glory |
After the paint had dried, I cut 2 of the 3 pages that I painted into 3.5" x 2.5" cards and drew on them with a size 01 pen. I really like the gradation of color from the watercolor paints. It really adds to the image.
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| Sending Messages to Space |
I started doing a certain type of doodling with black ink in high school (maybe even earlier than that). It has slowly evolved from just swirls to having more of a nature feel to it. Its all very organic and not planned out. Sometimes I'll have something in mind and see if I can keep with that theme, but I still let the image develop and grow the way that it wants to.
It feels good to be doodling again. It reminds me that I am more than just a crafter. It reminds me that, like my son said, I am an artist.
