More EDM Challenges Completed!

EDM Chellenge #104 - draw some salt and pepper shakers. These are some little frog themed shakers Iwas given. I don't know why the bottom one looks so sad, perhaps he's the salt! Black pen and watercolour pencil. EDM Challenge #105 - Draw scissors. These are my trusty fiscars scissors I use all the time. They are covered in sticky bits of glue, paper and tape and I badly need a new pair. Great scissors for detail work! Black pen and watercolour pencil.

EDM Challenge #78 - Draw a souvineer of a place. This is a little kit I bought from the "stitches and craft" show a few years ago now. It stands about 5" tall. It came with all the bits and the material for the clothes and duck and a pattern. It was really cool to do and I am yet to find another craft kit this cool!! Black pen and watercolour.

A few EDM Challenges!

Every Day Matters is a yahoo group. They issue a weekly drawing challenge I try to participate in when I get some time. These are some catch up challenge drawings.

EDM Challenge #111 - Draw a bowl. Watercolour pencil and black pen on cartridge.
EDM Challenge #106 - draw something tart or sour. Watercolour pencil on cartridge.

EDM Challenge #109 - Draw a clock at your house. Anyone who knows me knows I collect frogs and all things froggy. It just so happens I have a froggy clock. This is a pretty cute fishing frog clock. Black pen and water colour pencil.

EDM Challenge #52 - Draw a dog and Challenge #62 - Complete a previous challenge in a different medium.

This is a water colour pencil drawing of my dog Molly. The eyes and ears are too small but it looks surprisingly similar to miss Molly!!

EDM Challenge #56 - Draw a self portrait. Kinda looks a little like me with a flat nose. Drawn with black pen and a little wash from the drawn lines.

Daily Drawing Prompt - Draw cheesecake!

Mmmmm...cheesecake.....!
Digital painting done in Artrage.
What fun this one was!

Daily Drawing prompt - Draw a hybrid between fruit and animal.

This was an interesting challenge.

It made me think way outside the square.

I enjoyed stretching my thinking muscles and coming up with this little drawing.

Digital - Lemon Leaper.

EDM Challenge - Exercise Equipment.

I haven't been doing a great deal of sketching lately but managed to do this challenge.

It was way too hot to walk on this (I have it set up outside under our back verandah) so I sat down on the comfy chair of the outdoor setting and drew it instead.

It soon grew too hot to even sit there so I hightailed it indoors.

The proportions aren't quite right.

I think it should be longer that it is tall.

It is done in black pen and coloured with watercolour.

Another frog sketch!

This is gorgeous. I love the way the watercolours mixed and stained down the side of the frog. Its feet are too big and its head is too small but I love it anyway! Black pen and watercolours

Looking for something interesting.

It Can be a little difficult to find something stimulating to draw sometimes. I settled on this tiny little stuffed dog that sit with a small collection of miniature stuffed toys I have from my childhood. It came out looking a little cute. Black pen and watercolours.

EDM #101 - Draw soap!

This one really was a bit of a challenge. I decided to do the watercolour painting with just a fine pencil line for the first one to see if I could actually give it any dimention this way. Not very successful but interesting and the second one was done with the usual black pen and watercolour.
The soap, taken from Crown Towers, melbourne, last time we stayed there, is still in its wrapper.

EDM Challenges #52,#94,#98 and #90

I have made a promise to myself that I will draw more. I have been doing well so far and have been using the challenges to get me going.

Here is Challenge #52 - draw a dog. I drew this sketch of my dog Molly.

This is Challenge #94 - Draw a spoon. The reflection of the spoon was visible as well as the shadow.

EDM Challenge #98 - Draw Anything. I decided that this picture of one of my many frog fridge magnets would fit the bill.

Lastly here is EDM Challenge #90 - Draw something sweet. Nectarines are sweet! All Drawings are done using a black pen and water colour pencils as well as water colours.

EDM challenge #97 - Draw a present you recieved.

I have wanted one of these for ever!(well for a few years now anyway) and my darling gave me this one for Christmas. I love it! I have just about labelled everything in the house (If I can just find that cat!) Its a bit of a wonky drawing done with black pen in my sketchbook with just a little water colour.

Holiday Sketches.

A holiday with a difference, Here are some sketches from my sketchbook done while we were away on our recent cruise adventure.

1: Firstly, here are some drawings of passengers at the airport and on the plane.
2: Then, this is from inside the suite we had. Great room! The view from 2 angles.
3: From the balcony of our suite, this is the view of the church, a single yacht, and another of some boats at Lifou.
4: We went on a tour in Lifou to the Cliffs of Jokin. This hut was at the lookout at the cliffs.

5: The beach scene here is the beach at Lifou.

6: This chair is on the balcony of the suite and then their is the view as I looked back at the ship from out in the bay in Vila. 7: Here we have the stalls on the dock at Vila, locals all waiting to sell you some souvenirs. We went on a tour to some gardens and I drew the bird, the dog and the plant there.
8: I went snorkeling at Vila. I loved that so much, here are some pictures os some of the fish I saw. I drew these from Photos.

All drawings are ink and watercolour!

Mallacoota Madness 2006

These are some drawings from my sketchbook I did while we were away in Mallacoota, November 2006.
We visit our friends at the caravan park here every year.

1: The first one is our friends boat, at his mooring.
2: Then there is a rower that was rowing past on the lake, that one was hard to draw because once he was gone.....he was gone!
3: Here are 2 fishermen in their little tinnie trying to catch the big one!
4: This is a little sketch I did of 2 small children by the lake.

5: This sketch is of the tree in front of our friends caravan. They book the same site every year. Its a great big tree that gives heaps of shade.

6: One of the fishing friends around the caravan park is Barney, one of the loveliest fella's you could ever meet, he is here every year with his equally lovely wife Betty. This is Barney fishing from the moorings.

7: This is a quick sketch of another of the regular site folk. We see Linda and her husband every year, another 2 of the beautiful people!

8: This was one of the Van folk doing a little birdwatching? ( I think he's trying to figure out where the boats are catching the most fish!) He didn't know I was drawing him and he was hard to capture because he kept moving!

9: Trying to capture the seagulls is always a challenge for me. I think I did pretty well this year!

EDM Challenge #79 - Draw an ear.

These are some ears I drew. I am still working on learning how to draw portraits and these are exercises from the book I am using. They are both done using colour pencils, Derwent colours and the colour one is highlighted and burnished with prisma colors.

An Evening at DrSketchy's.-EDM 36 and 72.

During the week I had the wonderful opportunity to attend a drawing session at "The Butterfly Club" in South Melbourne.
Here, The models dress in burlesque clothing and pose for us, the sketchers. I have been wanting to do this type of sketching for such a long time and it was fantastic to actually get the chance. Tonight's model was "Sparkarella".
Here are a few of the better sketches I came up with. My materials are black Uniball pen and charcoal in a A4 sketch book.
These drawings also qualify for 2 of the EDM challenges. Challenge 36 - Draw out in public and challenge 72 - draw somewhere new.!
I will definitely be going to another one of these! Great fun!

Sketches from my Sketch Book.

These sketches are from my 5 x 7 sketchbook. I have sketched some small frog figurines from my collection using a black uniball pen and coloured them with watercolours.

More Daily Drawing prompts.

These are the latest daily drawing prompts that I have drawn. Not necessarily the latest prompts but the latest drawings! All drawn from my imagination/memory except for the griffin which was drawn from clipart. Drawn with black pen and coloured with watercolours. The lego and apple are coloured with prismacolor pencils.

Daily Drawings

Here are a few prompts I drew some time ago but had yet to post.
I have not been doing daily drawings for the last few weeks as I have been busy doing other artistic things.
I thought I would get these up and start doing a few more these coming weeks.

Daily Drawing Prompts.

I didn't get alot of time for drawing this week but I did come up with these few. They are all drawn with a black pen and coloured with watercolour pencils. I have a bit of a thing for the watercolour pencils this week and playing with layering colours together to try to create dimension.

1. For the prompt - Draw a treasure chest, I have drawn this wooden trunk with coins in it. I tried to give it an old worlde kind of look but I think it looks a bit more western. I think the coins came out pretty successfully.
2. For this next prompt - Draw a doughnut, I have well, drawn a doughnut, or two. Again, layering colours to try to create dimension. I was going to do a chocolate one with the pink one but, I thought that would be a little too much brown!
3. This next drawing was just for a little fun. Its from the front of a cheap greeting card. The shell came out all wrong but I still like the way the turtle came out on the whole.4. Lastly, This one was draw for the Prompt - Draw something to do with Bees. This kind of came out looking like a hornets nest...or not, actually, I don't know what a hornets nest looks like! Ok, Its a Bee Condo!

DD Prompt - Draw something hooked/a hook.

This drawing is in the style of a set of ATCs I did last year. I actually got the idea from some cushion I made for the couch, the material has a picture of a fish with lots of bright colours that I love, so, styled on these, I drew this poor hooked fishy. Drawn with black pen and coloured with watercolour paints.

DD Prompt - Draw a scene inside a cave.

This little drawing is a sleeping bear hibernating the winter away. Drawn with my black pen and coloured with watercolour pencils.