heArt #140: Snowflake heArts

Snowflake heArts Doodle Pattern

This started out as a page of snowflakes I doodled one Saturday morning I spent with some creative friends.  Originally I used ink and colored pencil but with the magic of  Photoshop I could cut out each individual snowflake and remix it.  I also made a Photoshop brush with one of the snowflakes that I used in the background.

Snowflakes are my favorite design element of winter.  I found some gorgeous snowflake cookies (with recipe) to add to my Sugar Cookie Recipes Squidoo lens.

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heArt #139: Heart Apple Tree Drawing

A Doodle with Pen and Colored Pencil

I’m finally done with massage school, have passed my national certification exam, and have the license application in the mail.  So now I can get back to my heArts!  I had no idea all of that would end up tapping the creativity right out of me.   Well, that and my muse disappearing.  But…upward and onward!

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heArt #131 Butterfly Tattoo ACEO

Yesterday I enjoyed playing with my colored pencils so much I decided to do a simple heart ACEO. (ACEO stands for “Artist Card Editions & Originals”.) I’ve been doing a lot of research in anticipation of creating a full website and I keep running into “tattoo designs”. It wasn’t my intent when I started, but by the time I finished it I thought this would make a cool tattoo.

Original ACEO, 3.5 x 2.5 inches in size, Prismacolor pencils.

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heArt #130 Rain Forest Hearts

I’m been holed up in my house because of the winter weather the last few days. Watching hour after hour of the Travel Channel has been my way of coping. Today I wrapped my electric blanket around me, tuned into Samantha Brown who was somewhere in the rain forests of South America, and started drawing with colored pencils.

Colored pencil on bristol board, 4 x 6 inches. The real colors are a little more vivid, especially the aqua background.

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Inchie::Pink and Green heArt

I’ve caught the inchie bug! I was sucked into a 1 x 1 (or “inchie”) art swap group at the CoachCreativeSpace site after much kicking and screaming. I have become much too dependent on Photoshop!

This is one of my first inchies using Inktense colored pencils on canvasette. Check out the way the texture of the canvas shows up. I think it’s cool. Keep in mind this is 1 x 1 inch square in real life.

heArt #107 of 1001

As often happens, I became more interested in researching inchies than actually make one at first. So interested that I made a lens (webpage) about Inchies on Squidoo.

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heArt #65 Heart Spiral Doodle

Drawn/painted with my new Derwent Inktense pencils, then scanned and given some texture in Photoshop.

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heArt #30 “Rose of Avalon”

ACEO, 3.5 x 2.5 inches. Colored and graphite pencils on Bristol vellum.

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heArt #10 “O Canada!”

ACEO, 3.5 x 2.5 inches; pastels and colored pencil on Bristol Board. The word “heArt” not on the original.

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heArt #9 “Memorial Day”

ACEO, 3.5 x 2.5 inches; pastels and colored pencil on Bristol Board. The word “heArt” not on the original.

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heArt #6 “Ode to Chagall”

ACEO, 3.5 x 2.5 inches; pastels and colored pencil on Bristol Board. The word “heArt” not part of the actual artwork.

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