Community Art Challenge #3--Animal

[tall73]

This is the third in a series of art challenges. The purpose is to get people practicing their art. You don't have to do them in order, they are just prompts.

For the third challenge submit a painting or drawing of an animal. See what you come up with! Multiple submissions are fine. This is not a contest, just a fun activity.

Edit: The goal is to encourage people to do art, but you can also post previous pieces if they fit the theme. That way we can see more art!
Here is a link to the other community art challenges:

Community art challenge #1--pathway
Community art challenge #2--vehicle

 

[SpiritSong]

This is called Crickets and Froggies

 

[tall73]

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This is called Crickets and Froggies

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I think I would rather be the frogs in that scenario!

What type of watercolors do you prefer, and do you have a favorite paper?

 

[SpiritSong]

I use Strathmore water color paper and several sets of watercolors. My fav is Windsor & Newton; the others are student sets that have a wider range of colors, but are not as high of a quality as W&N.

What kind of dog is that in your drawing?

 

[tall73]

I use Strathmore water color paper and several sets of watercolors. My fav is Windsor & Newton; the others are student sets that have a wider range of colors, but are not as high of a quality as W&N.

What kind of dog is that in your drawing?

We use W&N as well (more my family than me, I tend to do digital). We are considering using a honey based one such as M. Graham, as it tends to re-wet easier.

Which Strathmore?

We tend to use Arches as we find it holds up to water well.

As for the dog, that is my signature, but I guess it is an animal! It is a german short hair dog. We had one when I was growing up. I drew this (not our actual dog, just similar) some years later and sent it to my dad. When my dad died I received the picture back.

 

[SpiritSong]

I just paint little postcard sized works. So it is Strathmore Watercolor Postcards. I like keeping my works small. I do them for therapy reasons, not so much to show them or sell them. (Although I used to sell my larger works. I do not do that any longer. I have only a few of them that I kept, so they are part of my permanent collection now).

So the painting I shared here above is a therapy painting. For me, it is a happy painting. I used to play with froggies and crickets and all kinds of fun little animals when I was a kid.

 

[tall73]

I just paint little postcard sized works. So it is Strathmore Watercolor Postcards. I like keeping my works small. I do them for therapy reasons, not so much to show them or sell them. (Although I used to sell my larger works. I do not do that any longer. I have only a few of them that I kept, so they are part of my permanent collection now).

So the painting I shared here above is a therapy painting. For me, it is a happy painting. I used to play with froggies and crickets and all kinds of fun little animals when I was a kid.

That is great! I was considering getting some of the Strathmore cards. Do you find they work well then?

My daughter does a card ministry where she paints or draws artwork on cards each week for varous people, then includes a Scriptural message and prayer to encourage them. She has been using other paper and attaching it, but I wondered if the Strathmore might work well.

 

[SpiritSong]

It sure does! I paint on one side and do an explanation on the other. Never a problem.

 

[tall73]

New Work

 

[tall73]

Previous works:

 

[LoricaLady]

Hello - I am an aspiring artist too. SpiritSong told me about this forum. Here is an artwork which I created for a book of nursery rhymes. I am a little embarrassed to show it as it is seen on a beat up ol' clipboard. It also has quite a few messy places, but I plan to fix them digitally in the future. This picture goes with a dream sequence and the words that match it are, "First a monster from the sea tries to look mean as can be."

I did it with alcohol markers, pen, colored pencils and Neenah paper.
I felt led to do a book of nursery rhymes, much to my surprise, one morning but it has been going very slowly due to health issues. Any prayers appreciated.

I am enjoying looking at others' work.

 

[LoricaLady]

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[LoricaLady]

Not trying to tell anyone what to do, but if you happen to be okay with telling what medium/s you used, if you didn't already, that would be so interesting. Maybe some can just tell by looking but I'm not so sure I can.

 

[SpiritSong]

I figure if the fish gets that close to him and does not get eaten, that he is indeed a friendly character.

 

[LoricaLady]

Well, sea monsters eat a heap ton of fish I bet! I think this one is just distracted by practicing his mean look. However, it's a dream, so ya get to interpret it any ol' way you want!

 

[tall73]

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That is great that you are doing the story. And glad you found this section. What is Neenah paper?


As to the medium, the first dog I did in the thread was digital, drawn on a Nintendo 2ds XL in the program Colors 3d.

The dalmation was done in digital, Corel Photopaint, using the oil paint tool.

The eagle is also digital, and was done in Corel Photopaint (similar to photoshop).

 

[LoricaLady]

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That is great that you are doing the story. And glad you found this section. What is Neenah paper?


As to the medium, the first dog I did in the thread was digital, drawn on a Nintendo 2ds XL in the program Colors 3d.

The dalmation was done in digital, Corel Photopaint, using the oil paint tool.

The eagle is also digital, and was done in Corel Photopaint (similar to photoshop).

Thanks for telling me that. I wouldn't have guessed digital, but something organic. Not that there is anything wrong with digital. I have several art works done that way. I just like the organic feel better somehow.

 

[LoricaLady]

Oops. Forgot to say Neenah paper is a kind of card stock that is very popular with artists who use alcohol markers, and reasonably priced as well as good quality.

 

[tall73]

Oops. Forgot to say Neenah paper is a kind of card stock that is very popular with artists who use alcohol markers, and reasonably priced as well as good quality.

Ah ok, I will look it up. Thanks!

I do a few traditional works. My family does mostly traditional, but I have always enjoyed the speed, and low cost of materials of digital!

 

[tall73]

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Do you have a scanner that you could use for the image?

The reflection on it is really good by the way.