Carol Ann Conners Art Journal

Dino

Prompt 17 Inktober52

4″ x 6″ Kuretake Bimoji Brush Pen on PaintON MixedMedia Paper

Sci-Fi

4″ x 6″ Kuretake Bimoji Brush Pen on PaintON Mix Media paper

Prompt 16 Inktober52

Who remembers the TV show The Twilight Zone?

For many years I have spent hours a day using my gardens as a canvas. I love blending textures and colors. I love planting bulbs, starting seeds, propagating from cuttings, and I even love pulling weeds.

Blooms

Derwent Chromaflow Pencils blended with Meltz on SketchBox Signature Wet and Dry Media

4″ x 6″

Dancing Trees

16″ x 20″ Acrylic on canvas

Blueberry Field in Autumn

6″ x 6″ Acrylic on wood panel

This was lesson 10 with Dianna Shyne at Acrylic University. I painted it a couple of months ago and am just get around to posting it.

Fun

We had fun picking out frames at Aspect Framing Studio and Art Gallery in San Francisco. We chose this bold blue frame by Roma Moulding for this watercolor portrait of Greg.

Chloe is the shop manager. 🐾♥️

Andrea is my daughter and is the owner of Aspect Framing Studio along with my son in law Matt.

Photo by Greg

Camo

5″ x 7″

Ink and watercolor

Prompt 15 Inktober52

Varnish

I applied a matte varnish to the following acrylic paintings.

Greg

7″ x 10″

Watercolor on Lanaquarelle

This is a portrait of my husband Greg. I used the materials with the exception of the paper in the Sketchbox Watercolor Portaiture Special Edition Box and watched a lesson with portraiture artist Joanna Barnum of Maryland.

First, I made a swatch of the colors in the kit.

Using a photo as a reference, I sketched out the drawing.

(photo by Greg)

Layering paint drying in between layers:

First coat of background paint:Added several more layers for the shading and the background until I felt that it was finished. I am really happy with this painting!