Just a Sweet Little Hello

During my recovery time after surgery I am going a little stir crazy, so to keep me from truly going crazy I have invested my time into my art. I have been playing around with different things. On this one, I brought out the gouache paint and I must say the gouache scans very well. I can see why artist would use this medium.

So this little guy was done with what one instructor would call the cloud technique (apparently there are a few types of "cloud" techniques), I will call it the scribble technique. When your have imagination issues, make "scribbles" all over the paper and see what you have. I have done this before on my tablet. Which, it is much easier to get rid of the unwanted scribbles.

These both were done the same way

I am not a huge fan of doing this on paper, only because you have to go back and erase the scribbles you don't need and depending on what medium you are using you may not be able to cover up the erased pencil. With my little alien, I scanned him in to the computer, and I had a whole bunch of scribble that I did not need. I opened him up in "Pixelmator," If you have a Mac this is a great substitute for Photoshop, especially if you don't want to keep spending money on a program you don't use very often. I cleaned up the page and put a gradient in the background.

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Lots of Patterns

Still just doodling away, my goal is to fill this small sketchbook up over the next few months. The biggest challenge with this trying to use different patters for each section.

Digital Zentangle

Well it took me a little over a week and half but I have finally finished it. I wanted to put my tablet to good use for what I originally wanted it for, sketching. I was at a stand still, I have this huge piece of watercolor paper that I want to use for a large Zentangle™ project and I couldn't figure out what I wanted to do. I grabbed my tablet and just let it flow. I wanted to test out patterns and that is what I did. I will admit, I think I would like this even more if I had added color. I am not advertising for Samsung, but I will say the Samsung Note Pro 12 is a great tablet. If you can not afford or just do not want to spend over a $1000 for an actual artist tablet (I am not talking about the once you use with your computer) then this is the next best thing in my eyes. I love traditional art, nothing is compares to it. There is so much in a piece of art that was created with a paint brush, pen, ink, etc. But the sad thing is a lot of things go digital. How long will...

My Three Trees

I have been experimenting with Ph Martin inks lately, I like them. They are pretty much like watercolors but seem to have a bit more pigment in them. The background on this was done with the inks, the clouds and the foreground was done using black and white gouache. I feel like I am the middle tree, my dreams are on one side of me growing larger and larger, while my regular 9 to 5 is on the other getting smaller. I am reaching for the dream but I still have the 9 to 5 pulling at me. One day it will only be the two trees and I intend on it being the larger one. Dream big and don't give up, through all the fog there is a bright future.

Danielle Calabro

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