Days of Color....

But first, The Black, White, and shades of Grey Zentangle I mentioned in my last post 8 days ago! (Where does the time go??)

This last week went really fast! I've had some rough days.....but the highlight of my days have been working on my arts and craft projects! I actually got to spend a little money and get some more colors of paints, and color pencils, and even a set of shades of grey brush markers...Fun fun fun!!!

I tried out those shades of grey brush markers first, on my on the zentangle I had been working on. I used them for the solid parts that I would have used a pencil in different shades...I still used a pencil to get a demential look...like to round things up and such.

I worked on it a little at a time...which turned into 4 days before it was done!

Here is is:

And here, below, is a little bit of a close up. If you click on the pic, it should get even bigger to see the details...and mistakes LOL (it seems that the close works even better on the pic above)
Here, below, is my Sunday drawing...When I had gone to the store earlier in the week, and all of the markers, and pens and pencils and paints were on sale...(and I wanted them ALL!) I decided to get a fountain pen. I used to, way back when, do a little calligraphy. This here below, is NOT calligraphy....it's just using the pen for the first time!

It was a wonderful Sunday...I love my Sabbath day. After church, while I was reading, I found a quote I liked, and wanted to use it to doodle around...So I did. It was sure very scribbly, and at a angle, which I seem to write that way a lot if there are no lines to "keep me in line"

I would rather cut out this border below, and use it as clip art, and use one of my cool fonts with it. :o)

I did take a pic of the border before I colored it, so I might do that sometime soon...but, until then,

Here's my border drawing:
For one of my days of drawing....I couldn't decide what I wanted to draw....and kept looking at the colors I had...and decided that I needed to make some charts out of what I had. PLUS...this way, I get to use them all, and see exactly what I had!

The first page, below, I did my watercolor pencils (on the left) and on the right, my cheepo, not very good water color tray that's for children....when I tried to use them, they left shiny spots...weird...and yucky!

The "I love Mom" note was given to me by my daughter, and I put it in this journal for safe keeping. :o)
These next 2 pages, below, are all new paints! Pan Watercolors on the left, and Gauache paints from small tubes on the right. They were both so fun to paint!
Below is my Prismacolors color pencils pages...my old ones mixed with the new ones I just bought...and spaces to get more! ;o)

The last little red one at the end was so small, (I have used it SO much!) that I missed it when I was lining them up to color in....so it's out of order....but glad I found it hiding on the bottom!

I decided to write down the pencils that were small, so next time there's a sale, and I have some money...and they co-inside all at the same time...I can bring this with me, and buy what I need. I can look at this and see I still need some colors...(like some yellows!)

Right now, for yellow and some of my purples, I'm using my Crayola yellow color pencils for yellows and purples and such.. I didn't color out my spare Crayola's and other spare color pencils...maybe I'll do that at another time. Below is just my Prismacolors color pencils:

Now....I was having some sad days this week. My heart was broken about some things that have happened...

In the past...when I was sad, or crying and such...I would draw really sad, and morose things...and that would only make me more sad....I decided I wanted to focus more on the positive things in my life...

So when I found out that the EDM sketch challenge for this week was #285 "Draw something Colorful" I thought...this is perfect! I would do this!

It took me a while to draw out this quilt, At least I have a good ruler now, (yes, at the store this last week) LOL I still erased way more than I thought I would....I was trying to use the "Pattern" I found online as my base....Bradie, is sharing the pattern for this quilt every month this summer, as a quilt along for the Summer...and I've been collecting the pattern, so when I decide what materials I'm going to use...and can buy them, I'll make this quilt...

Anyway...I colored this WAY different than she had hers (I loved her muted colors too)....I used a "rainbow" of 16 of my colored pencils, and my brand new blender colorless pencil...(I've always wanted to try one!) It did help a lot with blending! So...here, below, is something REALLY colorful!:
Now, doing this, instead of something sad....has really helped cheer me up some. I think I need to start on something else that's fun...I can see this is good therapy for me....

Adding creating something fun to my list of helps....along with the other positive things that help...like prayerfully studying scriptures, prayer itself, exercise, and meditation, serving others....even working on my family history....They're all very helpful "tools" to bring peace, and happiness to my life. Here is the close up of my fun fun FUN! ...what I call my "Rainbow Stars Sampler Quilt":
I was thinking....I should post some of my older stuff that have not make it on here yet....Maybe I'll do that next time!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Pam