Monday, October 20, 2014

getting cocky...

...PEA-cocky, that is! apparently, i'm in a bit of a peacock phase, but it's not entirely my fault. the other day stephanie sent me a link to the current challenge (#236) at just add ink, where the inspiration board looks a bit like this:


cool, right? of course you don't have to do anything with an actual peacock on it, but i had so much fun drawing and painting the peacock feather card last week, that i was feeling pretty literal. i didn't really want to make the same thing again, though, so i started playing around and doodling and then i thought, "i know! i'll make a peacock mandala!"* so i drew all the shapes:


and it looked pretty good, but peacocks are all about COLOR, aren't they? so i filled in with marker.**


and then last night i made the whole thing into a card, because hey... it's what i do! :)

peacock mandala drawn with faber castell pitt pens (in S and SX) on strathmore watercolor paper; colored with tombow markers and highlighted with a sakura white gelly roll pen; patterned papers: cosmo cricket and otober afternoon

the challenge at just add ink closes on wednesday morning, so you still have time to get cocky... PEA-cocky, that is! :) :) :)

*which wouldn't necessarily be most people's first thought, unless you do ICAD every summer, where there are always at least a few mandala prompts thrown into the mix, and it turns out they are pretty addictive!

**i had intended to use watercolors, but the mandala became so full of tiny, fine detail, that markers seemed a little more controllable to a person with middle-aged eyes at 10:30pm.

12 comments:

  1. OMG--did you actually hand draw that beautiful design? And, then color it in? Amazing and gorgeous. Thanks for your sweet comments on my Pink Christmas cards. I'm having such fun making them, and the fact that they are for a good cause is like the icing on the (pink) cake.

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  2. That is really amazing! How beautiful and perfect for the challenge!

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  3. Lauren this is simply beautiful!!!! Gorgeous drawing and coloring. This would make gorgeous fabric. I love it!

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  4. Wow Lauren you went all zentangle on us. This is so amazing. I am so impressed. I love where you went with this and the colors you used are brilliant.

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  5. Lauren, this is just plain AWESOME! I love how entirely 'handmade' the image is, and the colours are beautiful. Love that the colour of the background paper matches the centre of the mandala so beautifully. Thanks for joining in the fun at Just Add Ink this week!

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  6. Lauren this is stunning! Thank you for sharing your creative process from inspiration to drawing the mandala to colouring it and making a card. Its gorgeous! Thanks for joining us at Just Add Ink this week.

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  7. Stunning card Lauren - very inspiring.
    Mary

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  8. Wow - that is amazing....I can't believe you drew this and then coloured and then made it a card - that is very very clever. Chantell JAI

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  9. AAAAHHHH! My words are broken! This is so fun and funky and just plan amazing!

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  10. Vey beatutiful and artistic Lauren. Love it!

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