Let's get ready for fall and paint a watercolor pumpkin!!
I start by using a Faber-Castell SB brush pen to draw a circle like shape, leaving an opening at the top. Then, draw the stem! Draw curved lines within the circle to indicate the grooves in the pumpkin.
Cut out the top of the pumpkin, leaving space at the bottom for a verse. With the same pen, I wrote the verse, "So those who went off with heavy hearts will come home laughing with armloads of blessing." —Psalm126 (MSG)
Now, I'm going in with Prima Marketing watercolors and filling in the pumpkin with happy orange and pinks, the leaves with green, and details of tomato reds!
Happy Pumpkin Day!
Happy Day to you!!
Today we're sketching a Wonky and Fun coffee cup!
“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” —Frederick Buechner
I'm using a Faber Castell brush brush pen and colorful markers!
Happy Day to you!!
Today we are drawing and watercoloring fall leaves! I go through the steps of creating wonky leaves for autumn!
Supplies:
Happy Flowery Day to you!
In this free lesson, I'm teaching you how I paint a flower with acrylics. This is a little sneak peek into how I go about a painting from beginning to the final bloom!
On a painted black canvas, using chalk, draw out your flower bouquet.
Globbing pinks, reds, and white on my paint brush, I start painting in the flower shape. Add in streaks of blues and oranges for more depth.
Add fun papers!! You can use paper with patterns, tissue paper, napkins, anything that sparks joy! Tear it in pieces and add to your flower for extra bits of whimsy!
Today I'm teaching you one of the most important lessons I've learned in art: giving yourself a permission slip!!
Permission to be wonky. Permission to have fun today. Permission to live colorfully.
What will your permission slip say?
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Yippee! This is the FINAL part to our colorful paper house! We're adding the colors with watercolor and adding some wonky!
Get out your watercolors and paint your "house of dreams"! You can use colors similar to mine, or use your favorites! It will be a reflection of your hopes, prayers, and dreams!
It's Fun Friday! And we are continuing in our paper house of dreams creation!! This can be a symbol for us--our very own house of dreams! I was inspired by the book, Anne's House of Dreams! Today, we're creating around the question "What is the password to the front door of your house of dreams?". Following the breadcrumbs of what God was showing me, I found the secret password!
In Psalm 100 (MSG), it says,
“On your feet now—applaud God!
Bring a gift of laughter,
sing yourselves into his presence.
Know this: God is God, and God, God.
He made us; we didn’t make him.
We’re his people, his well-tended sheep.
Enter with the password: “Thank you!”
Make yourselves at home, talking praise.
Thank him. Worship him.
For God is sheer beauty,
all-generous in...
Happy Fun Friday! We are continuing our lesson from last week, and adding elements to our paper cut out house! If you missed that lesson, you can find it HERE.
So get out your markers, pencils, pens, crayons, whatever you'd like to create with, and fill your paper house with love! :) As we add fun things to this house, let us remember we live for the God who made magnolias!
And we create these playful cutout houses to add fun into our days. Like Einstein said, "Play is the highest form of research."
Start with your cut out house ready to go from Part 1. On a separate piece of paper, draw your elements. I'm drawing a girls to put in the windows. I have the house right next to my paper so I can kind of see what size they should be. *You could also measure the space of the window if you want to be exact, but remember to keep it wonky!*
I sketched out an easel with a "painting" of a flower on it to put in the top window. As you fill in the windows, you can start to think of...
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Today we're creating a paper house!! Embrace the play in life and create a house around the verse, “God you smiled on your good earth! You brought good times back to Jacob.” Psalm 85
Get a piece of paper, a glue stick or some tape ready. With a magic marker, I'm drawing the shape of a house, and of course, adding in the door and windows!
Now get your scissors out, and cut a line down the center of the window and two slits on the top and bottom so they fold out.
For the door, leave the left side in tact so you can open and close it! Add some tape to the back and tape it to another piece of paper, so you can't see through the windows--Next week, we'll draw fun things in the windows!
Here's a view of the other house I made!
Happy Day!
Join me as I share some things that God is speaking to my heart with! Tell yourself, “I am an artist!”, and bring in more sketching and doodling into your verse writing today. I started thinking more about God leading us. Psalm 19:7-14 MSG has so many good aspects to learn from: “The life-maps of God are right, showing the way to joy.”, “The direction of God are plain and easy on the eyes.”, “The signposts of God are clear and point out the right road.”, and “The revelation of God is whole and pulls our lives together.”
So I drew this girl to showcase these verses! She has a magical suitcase full of art supplies and a bird perched on her hand, singing. I love using birds as a representation for the Holy Spirit, and how God leads us by His Spirit.
I doodled the words that make this girl the Psalm 19 girl! She’s blooming, she’s looking at God’s life maps, she’s listening to God’s voice. Her...
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