tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20862516235507620462024-03-05T00:40:20.681-08:00misspollicatUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086251623550762046.post-57733054251479473462015-06-20T09:21:00.000-07:002015-06-20T09:22:40.694-07:00<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i> </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello lords and ladies!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's that time again! A new creation.. this time my theme is </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Start of summer </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here's what i did step by step:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">STEP ONE:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did some online searching to look at the things that people thought of when they heard the word summer, cue plenty of ice creams, deckchairs, sunglasses etc. I played about with several ideas but everntually one popped into my head: </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">GERBERAS</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. I absolutely love gerberas they're my favourite flowers. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So i drew some pencil sketches and decided on the arrangement of two gerberas in my piece.</span><br />
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ST<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">EP TWO:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided to add some writing onto the piece and drew out a tattooesque type font in pencil.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">STEP THREE:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It looked a bit plain, so i added some</span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">fluid lines in pencil which i could add color to later on. I then proceeded to draw over all pencil lines with a permanent pen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">STEP FOUR: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I use the Kuretake zig scroll and brush pens and try out the brush nib to flick out colour from the edges of the petals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Wheat</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-pure orange</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Pure pink</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Salmon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Summer sun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used my Kuretake zig scroll and brush pens again to color the writing in, again using the brush nib. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Pure Green</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">STEP SIX:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used the Scroll and brush pen in shade Pure Black with the brush nib to shade in some details and add some depth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used the Clean color brushes in a sweeping motion to add some nice fluid patternation to the background of my picture. I used really summery colours for this:</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #134f5c;">HEY GUYS!!</span></b></h2>
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I've created a second piece of artwork for you guys to get inspired by.<br />
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<b><u>FIRST STEP:</u></b><br />
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My first step was to draw an outline of the picture i wanted, due to these Gansai Tambi being watercolour inks, i decided to draw myself some koi. I put my own spin on a normal koi design and mixed up the flow of the lines:<br />
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<b><u>SECOND STEP:</u></b><br />
I drew lines across in the back of the picture, with the view of creating a piece where the background was a gorgeous grey tonal wash and the koi were bright and colourful. I also added some wavy leaves to add oomph to the background<br />
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<b><u>THIRD STEP:</u></b><br />
Draw over the lines using a pen and rub out those pencil lines!!<br />
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I used the waterbrush and both the deep navy and black watercolours to create a wash on the background, i alternated the two deep colours and stopped just short of the koi so as to offer up a nice border.<br />
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I used the cleancolor brush to scribble on the plates on my Koi's fins. I scribbled in an arc pattern, leaving an arch of light at the top of each scale.<br />
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I used a black biro to do some careful cross hatching over the details on my koi...<br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Firstly I want to introduce myself! *curtseys* my name is Paula and I am starting out a lovely blog to share my art and creativeness with the world! I like to create in so many different ways it makes sense to make a blog and try to untangle the big ball of yarn that is my creative brain!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So today i'm going to be showing you a lil' project I've been given the privilege to work on by the lovely guys and dames over at Kuretake </span><a href="http://www.kuretakeshop.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">www.kuretakeshop.co.uk</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Now if you haven't heard of Kuretake firstly, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?!and secondly you must must MUST head on over there and take a gander at their range of art tools.. I can promise you wont be disappointed!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>So the project topic is a very special one, to create something that sums up Kuretake's 30th anniversary *starts blowing up the balloons* I've been thinking about what to do for this project in great length and here's my design and a step by step guide of how I achieved it...</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>So the first thing I did was to jot down ideas of what came to mind when I thought about Kuretake.. obviously my first thought was PENS! but how did this tie in with the birthday theme? hmm... that's right... CANDLES! I linked pens to candles in my mind and I was all ready to begin. I took myself over to the Kuretake website and made a little rough sketch of the different equipment over there.. what the nibs looked like etc and I thought about how I might like to arrange that into a concept..</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Step 1</span>: <span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>I used a ruler and a pencil to mark out a box in the middle of the picture where I wanted my number 30 to go. I then used the ruler again to mark the lines of where I wanted my pens to sit:</em></span><br />
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