Monday, September 28, 2015

Pinecones

I had a warm fuzzy Mom moment the other day - the kids went out for a bike ride, and my youngest son came home with a pinecone for me to draw. "See? I thought of you!" he said. So I obviously had to oblige... :)


 I sketched two pinecones on a 4" Art Square from Inchie Arts and used a variety of mediums to finally arrive at my finished piece - I started with a layer of light brown as my base color Brusho - I wanted the variation of the powder to show through in my highlights, and I knew that this matboard surface would retain more of a spotty look with the Brusho grains.


Subsequent layers of color were added with QoR paints, a white Pitt pen and white colored pencil, and then I pulled out the Inktense pencils for the deepest shadows, since I wasn't getting the depth I wanted with the watercolors.


Hope you'll have a wonderful week! It's a fun week - a great tutorial coming up Wednesday, some fun challenges, and Hope You Can Cling To kicking off on October 1st!

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6 comments:

  1. Love this, Dina! Your art replicates the original pinecone's almost exactly! What a blessing to have such a God-given talent! My warm fuzzy moment this week - all my kid let's and their Littles at church with me yesterday. We spent the day together as we wished my youngest son godspeed at his new job in Washington state. He leaves today. Hard for this mom to say goodbye to her baby... 😉

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  2. Awww! So awesome that your son was thinking of you and then you didn't let him down, you created a masterpiece! Beautiful!

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  3. How stunning. You are such a beautiful artist. It's nice your son sees it in you too.

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  4. OMG. Dina, absolutely Stunning sketch and mixed media coloring. You are a true artist my friend. TFS

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  5. How sweet! And you did them great justice. I'm daycare for both of my grown kid's babies and they are both so appreciative and have expressed that to me recently. It makes my heart swell with pride that I did okay even though it felt like a struggle a good part of the time.
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  6. These are the best gifts we get from our children - the ones that don't cost money, but show they care. Your beautiful image does them more than justice - pine cones are so difficult to draw - I can't tell you how many times I tried and failed.

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