Maleficent watercolor painting

It's been a little while since I created some art and I wanted to really challenge myself.  I'm still learning how to paint with watercolors and this was my first attempt at a portrait.

I have always been a really huge Disney fan so I was super excited to hear about them recreating this classic.  Maleficent was the scariest bad guy in any Disney movie, in my opinion.  I also love that they used Angelina Jolie in it because I am a HUGE fan.

I haven't seen the movie yet but it is definitely on my list!!

Here are a few progress shots:

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A couple cartoony doodles

I have something completely different than what I normally share for you today.  Normally when I share my art it is some sort of realistic portrait.  This week I wanted to try something new.

A few months ago my best friend's mom asked me if I could create a logo for the business that she was started.  She plans parties for children, makes gift baskets, and dresses up in character costumes for the parties.  She also does a lot of work for charities and shows up at hospitals dress in costumes just to make kids smile.  

She asked me to create something cartoony.  She had almost an exact idea in her head of what she wanted.  She wanted a girl and boy, to represent her son and daughter.  She also wanted to add a little yellow butterfly as a remembrance of a family member.  The little boy in the drawing was supposed to be holding balloons and the little girl holding a gift basket.  She wanted a "Precious Moments" kind of look to them, and also knew she wanted them to be in pastel colors.

To get the pastel color look I used watercolors and just diluted them a bit.

While my daughter was taking her nap I felt like doodling a little, so I drew a couple Disney Princesses. haha!  Not my best work but I thought I would share anyway!

What do you think???

Finally had a little time for drawing

After putting the baby to sleep last night, I decided to stay up for a little bit to try a charcoal portrait of Mila Kunis.  

I always use my art as a way of unwinding after a stressful day/week.  Paige is in the middle of teething so she's been pretty frustrating and moody for the past couple days. 

So, what do you think??

Baby date in the park and more artsy ideas

We had a day over the weekend that wasn't too cold (we thought) so we decided to go to the park with our friends and their little one.  When we got there we realized it was much colder than we thought it was...it started getting really windy.  I was glad we all had extra coats in the car!

Paige is always finding sticks and leaves to play with.  She ran around for almost 2 hours.  She barely stopped long enough for pictures!  I had so many of her in a blur because she would be running away. haha!

I also made a quick little doodle of a Native American in pen.  He is an idea that i have for a new painting.  I'm thinking of redoing our bedroom with a Native American theme...Although I may change my mind a billion more times until then. haha!  I'm probably the most indecisive person in the world

The end of the challenge...until Sept!

I was so excited to join the 29 Faces Challenge last month.  I got to meet a lot of new bloggers/artists and it kept me motivated to create new art.  I really enjoyed trying a bunch of different mediums to create all of these faces.  Here are some of the faces I created for this past month's challenge:

 I can't wait until September to "attend" again.  In the meantime, I would love to keep in touch with everyone who was creating so expect to see my name popping up in the comments!

Happy Valentine's Day!!

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!!!!

I hope you all have some fun plans for the day!  In honor of Valentine's Day I decided to draw a portrait of my husband and I on our wedding day.  We got married on the beach in Ocean City, Maryland.  The whole day was like a whirlwind!  

These are portraits for days #15 and 16 of the 29 Days Challenge.  Can't wait to see what everyone else has for today!

#13 for the 29 Faces Challenge

This one isn't 100% perfect but I tried!  This is actually a girl I went to school with.  She became a model in New York and said I could use her picture for a reference so I could try portraits of people I knew.  I always think it's way harder to draw someone you know then same random person in a magazine.

This charcoal drawing is #13 of the 29 Faces Challenge

I survived my first week!

Hi everyone!!  I successfully survived the first full week at my new job!!  I really like it so far!  I think I'm getting the hang of it too!  BUT  I'm sooo exhausted!  My body isn't used to working fulltime anymore, since I took the year off when I had my daughter.  I will get used to it, I guess.  The hardest part will come when they want me to train on the midnight shift...It will be tough for me because after I am done working that night I will come home and my little one will be awake for the day, so I would get a chance to nap until her dad comes home at 4pm!!  EEEEKK!  We will figure something out....i hope!

Now on to the fun stuff....I decided to pull out the markers and make a couple quick drawings for the 29 Faces Challenge.  I am a little ahead posting these but these are faces #11 and 12

The first one reminds me of a mermaid...

And this one makes me think of a fairy

Zoey the cat

Zoey the Siamese cat is my face #10 for the 29 Faces Challenge.  My friend lost her kitty and I wanted to make something for her to remember her little fur baby with.  I did this one using colored pencil.

quick pencil sketch

This is face #8 for the 29 faces Art Challenge.  There is only about two thirds of the woman's face showing and about one third of the man's face showing, soooo that equals one whole face, right??? lol!!

I did this quick sketch in pencil.