ATC Mushroom #13

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 On number 312 I used Letraset Markers. Due to the paper I used they bled a bit. I used watercolor pencils on number 322. I definitely like the way 322 came out better than 312. I need to experiment some more with my Letraset pens... that will be fun.

Have a great day!

Theta

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ATC Flower Color #10

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Two ATC flowers looking very different are todays posting.

Have a lovely day.

Theta

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ATC Flower Color #9

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Pink is the color of the day. I don't usually use pink in this amount, but I felt like it.

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Theta

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ATC Flower Color #8

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 Two bright flowers to make your day brighter and happier :)


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Theta

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ATC Flower Color #7

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 To color number 268, I used Derwent Inktense colored pencils, but for number 272 I used Faber-Castell Watercolor pencils. My scanner is making the orange redder than it should be so I photoshopped these two. #268 came out more successfully than #272, when the image is compared to it's original card.

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Have a great day!

Theta

ATC Mushroom #11

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 Number 266 I colored with Derwent Inktense and #279 I colored with Derwent Artists Pencils. The pencils give two very different looks.

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Theta

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ATC Mushroom #10

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One bright mushroom and one brown for today.

Have a wonderful day,

Theta

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ATC Mushroom #9

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Single mushrooms today.

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Theta

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ATC Flower Color #5

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 This is the last of this set of flowers. #264 seems to have scanned ok, but #265 lost it's orange. Hopefully I can figure out a better way to color correct fast for the next set of flowers.

Have a happy day!

Theta

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ATC Flower Color #4

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 Two more flowers today. Doodling flowers is soothing. Since I don't use pencil or erase on my ATCs, flowers are the most relaxing. They grow out more or less symmetrically from a center point.

Stop and smell the flowers today,

Theta

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ATC Flower Color #3

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Day 3 of my vivid flowers...

May they brighten your day :)

Theta

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ATC Flower Color #2

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I really like the brightness I am getting with the Derwent Inktense colored pencils, but I think my scanner has issues with the bright colors. Number 259 ended up being more muted than I had intended (in real life too, not just on the screen), but I learned quite a bit about the medium and the result is a series of bright flowers.

Have a lovely day!

Theta

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ATC Flower Color #1

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On Deb Ammerman's  (her web site here) suggestion in a comment on my blog, I got a few Derwent Inktense colored pencils (I am extremely lucky that my local Jareer carries Derwent products) and have been experimenting with them. The next series of posts are flowers I did with my rapidograph pen and my new Inktense pencils. They are pretty smooth and when water is added, their color really can intensify. One thing I am happy about with these is that once the color is dry, it stays put. This means that there is less bleeding and mudding of edge colors.

For some reason my scanner has been taking out most of the orange color when I scan my drawings. I have been trying to put some of the orange back in (quickly) with moderate success.

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Experiment with color today and let it brighten your day,

Theta

ATC Butterflies #7

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I am having fun drawing and coloring these fragile creatures.

Have a great day!

Theta

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ATC Butterflies #6

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Two more bright butterflies.

Have a colorful day!

Theta

ATC Butterflies #5

These two are a bit more complicated...

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Have an excellent day!

Theta

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ATC Butterflies #4

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The next several posts will be ATC's of colorful butterflies. I drew them with my Faber-Castell TG1-S 0.1, 0.3, and 0.5 ink pens and either used my Faber-Castell water color pencils or my Eagle Prismacolor colored pencils.

Have a great day!

Theta

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Leaf Dragon with a flower

This one I did about a month ago, but forgot to photograph. It is about A4 size and done with pen and watercolor pencils.

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Theta

Horse Painting

Last week I didn't do very many ATC's, I was working on a painting of Saba Al Hasa for my husband for our anniversary. It came out ok, I've done better. I used Staedtler watercolor pencils, pastels, and Winsor-Newton watercolors.

Have a wonderful day!

Theta

ATC 2 + 1 flower and a Graduation

My daughter graduated from High School last weekend, so I made her a ATC to go in her card. Since she collects playing cards the ATC's fit right in. I've felt like drawing Calla Lilies for some reason, perhaps because of their clean lines compared to the doodle flowers I've been drawing. They sort of give the mind a rest.

116CallaLily; Copic pen 03, Staedtler watercolor pencils; 30 May 2014

117ABGrad; unipin 03, Ink: Tsukineko, gold gel pen, Stamps: owl - Inkadinkado mortar board - hand carved, Sumitape; 31May 2014

118CallaLilyPink; Zig 01, unipin 03, Staedtler watercolor pencils; 01 June 2014

119FlowerLarge; unipin 03; 01 June 2014

Have a great day!

Theta