Bringing back the daring dodo for your coloring pleasure!
feel free to print and color for your personal enjoyment
Some coloring for Easter & Spring ...
For all of us who don’t have white eggs 🥚 or food coloring in their homes - here are 2 coloring pages of eggs to color 🖍 - one with pattens & one with blank eggs 🥚 I will post them on my website blog so you can download them and celebrate 🥳 Easter 🐣 Spring 🌸 or just a happy Sunday 💫
Feel free to download and color for your personal enjoyment!!
peace & be well 😘
C ~ be curious ...
c from my ‘abc’s of beeing … enjoy and feel free to share and stay safe.
Never lose a holy curiosity. Albert Einstein
be brilliant ...
B from my ‘ABC’s of Beeing … Enjoy and feel free to share.
be brilliant
Peace and be well.
the ABC's of BEEing ...
In light of our new normal and our need to stay home and be social distance for the foreseeable future, I decided this is a perfect time to work on one of my projects that has been percolating in my brain for YEARS!
Introducing my first go at a coloring book (drum roll please …)
the ABC’s of BEEing
This coloring book will feature positive and inspiring states of being as well as celebrating the nature and the wonders and importance of bees. My plan had been to publish the book and donate a percentage of the sales to help the survival of bees, however with the current state of the world, I want to offer the pages to any and all who would enjoy them. Coloring is a good 'social distancing' activity AND coloring is a proven activity that can lessen our stress and anxiety!
A - be AUTHENTIC
And as creating coloring pages is a new endeavor for me I would SO appreciate any feedback -such as: black lines are too thick, needs more smaller areas to color or more larger areas?!? I would SO appreciate any feedback -I’m open for all suggestions ~ thank you!
Good-bye 2018 & hello 2019!!
As we head into 2019 I am excited to be part of a creative community called IlloStories put together by two lovely and talented illustrators - Deborah Stein & Erica Root . For the entire year IlloStories will present themes and prompts to help us inspiring illustrators create exciting and new work for our portfolios.
If you are interested in joining the fun join the IlloStories facebook group, and keep an eye out for all the work with the tags @illostories #IlloStories on FB and instagram.
I tend to do well with challenges and prompts (it is my love for being a student :) Below are my #topnine from my instagram feed and 3 come from Creativebug’s class, Daily Painting Challenge: 31 Painted Patterns with Lisa Congdon and one of my illustrations that I did in Lilla Rogers’ Make Art That Sells Bootcamp. So it will be fun to see what will come from IlloStories .
Thank you & peace,
Virginia
this is my ‘top-nine’ from my instagram …
This is my final submission, created with a technique that I love, watercolor and resist to create a batik outlines. I then add color with watercolors, inks and metallic pens. After that I scanned the painting and did some editing in photoshop.
Journal cover for MATS' bootcamp
This year I have joined a most talented group of illustrators and artists in one of Lilla Roger's Make Art That Sells classes. Lilla leads a number of online classes to help illustrators find their niche and improve their portfolios, two things that I need to do.
The bootcamp is a 5 month program with one big assignment each month with a mini assignment to get the juices flowing. This month the mini was to draw anything 'tea' related which prepped us all for the big assignment:
“Create a journal cover around the theme of reading tea leaves. Feel free to use your art from the mini or make new art. ”
below are some of sketches and paintings that I did working up to my final piece ...
