30 Days of Art- Days 3, 4, and 5

I'm Back to computer world!
I have so much to show.  I mean, nothing is like a master piece, but I have been letting go of the notion that everything I do needs to be a master piece. How did that little super limiting idea trickily sneaked into my head? It completely stops me on my tracks! gotta get rid of that! anyway onto the showing.

Day 3: I wanted to enter Willowing.ning's ATC swap and it's theme is Heroes.  I went back and forth as to what I wanted to do and it pretty much took me sooo long to decide (I'm a Libra! little decisions like that sometimes turn into all day weighing of options).  Since I was invited to visit one of my neighbors that afternoon, all I had time for was  sketches of what I kind of wanted to say, made on my trusty sketch book and I actually made the drawings on the ATCs.  

Day 4: I finished the ATCs! I kind of like them and I hope who ever gets them in the end likes them too.  I used prismacolor pencils for the faces (i have tried other methods of coloring before and I find that I enjoy this technique the best).  The rest is a combination of Acrylics, watercolors, watercolor crayons and some great metallic gel pens I found in town.

Love and care for Mother Earth and you are a my hero

Choose Love over fear and you are my hero

Day 5: Today was learning and practicing to draw Manga bodies and faces day.  I was inspired to get my drawing skills some new info and training. I have always love the look of Manga cartoons though I have never really purchased them.  I love that the characters are always so pretty, even the males.  So, lucky for me, I found an American manga artist who shares his drawing knowledge for FREE of Youtube. His name is Mark Crilley and he is an amazing artist.  So the girls and I sat with our pencils and sketchbooks in hand and drew while watching the videos on the Iphone.  We had a blast and made some pretty girls.  I will be posting the pictures they made on the blog I have to display their artful creations.  But here is what I did today...

 Well, that is all for me today! I will probably be drawing more and coloring some of those faces up tomorrow.  Mila and Saskja are very inspired by this kind of drawing right now so I'm riding their inspiration coattails.

MUCH LOVE TO ALL

30 Days of Art- Day 1

So, to kick start this art blog I have decided to join Traci Bunkers on a 30 day of get your art on challenge this month of September.  I am taking her guidelines which are posted on her blog. The link is on the button at the right.  I will say that even though I will be making art of some kind everyday, I may not post everyday, more realistic to say every few days, as I don't have consistent electricity and have to relay on a nearby neighbor to charge my computer.  But, I promise to be a pestering neighbor and I will try.
So, since today is the first day, I am posting some photographs I took this morning of our little baby fruit trees in bloom (really it's more like a few lonely flowers) we were so excited to see these little flowers since we were not sure these little ones had made it through the winter.  They are indeed alive!

 

I am including this shot of this morning's sunrise over the Andes which was spectacular

  and my very first ATC which I did not make today but wanted to share anyway this is called "the web of life" and it is a sacred geometry piece.  That's it for today.

MUCH LOVE TO ALL

Carolina

New Art Endevours

Be yoU
Mixed Media Collage

Since we moved out to the country last October, we have been settling down on the land, building our house, learning many things of farm life.  All things which were new to us, coming from as big a city as Miami.  All my creative juices have been consumed by creating a comfortable living environment for our family.  We have come a long way since that first day we drove up to this land. Though we are still without consistent electricity, which makes keeping up with blogs and websites a little more difficult.  I am making a commitment to do so.  We are now in the winter time, and though we are still building parts of our house, namely the bedrooms and also suitable spaces for us to spread out, and create.  The weather usually makes us stay inside and so lately I have had a little more time to get inspired to draw and paint and make new art.  I have been following some great artists on the internet and that, has inspired me to re/start an Art Journal which I began back in Miami.  I had worked on it some when I was in Santiago last year before we moved out here to Cancha Alegre.  So, I had been sporadically working on it.  My aim now, is to do a page at least every couple of days,  I will share this art journal here in this blog.  I have also started to make some ATCs (Artist Trading Cards) hopefully I will be able to actually trade them internationally since here in Chile I have searched and no other artists who do this.  Either way it is fun to make and share on this blog. Oh! and I almost forgot that I have started making rag dolls.  these I will put on here too :)