Happy Saturday! Stacy provided a wonderful website for her Inspiration Challenge today; an ETSY Birdhouse site.
There are so many wonderful items on this site from which to choose as an inspiration piece. I selected several, started cards, and decided I wanted to browse the site again. I'm glad I did as I found this beautiful canvas of "Winter Birds and Bird Feeder" that inspired me to draw the scene on my card.
It took me hours to sketch and color the scene as I am not an artist. However, I had fun doing it. I used a pencil to lightly sketch the scene first. Then I used a Copic Multiliner 0.05 to draw the scene by following the pencil lines. I used Copic Sketch Markers to color the scene: Cool and Warm Grays for the trees, ground, water, and ice; E4s for bird feeder; and a Pale Blue Gray for the sky. I die cut the cardinals and chickadees using OI bird dies from red and X-Press Blending cardstocks. I used Copics to color the chickadees as best I could.
Thank you for stopping by! Any comments are greatly appreciated!
Registered: April 6, 2009 Location: Weyers Cave, Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley Posts: 27160
Sat, Jan 19, 2019 @ 4:54 PM
Gasp! I'm so Impressed with your persistence, Bev! Wowzers, this is Fantastic! If I were you, I'd keep this, frame it and then find some place special to hang it! Seriously, you rocked this challenge~
------------------------------ ~Roberta
�Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.�
― Lou Holtz
Registered: July 9, 2008 Location: Stars Fell on Alabama Posts: 68520
Sat, Jan 19, 2019 @ 5:03 PM
My goodness, Bev, I had no idea you could draw like this. It is spectacular!!! I can't quit looking at it. I can't draw anything. I showed it to hubby and he was really impressed. You can go to the top of the class with this one. Wow!
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Sat, Jan 19, 2019 @ 5:33 PM
BEAUTIFUL winter scene accented by the bright red cardinals, Bev. Your scene has such a wonderful aura...reminds me of some illustrations in fine children's books with the work done by artists.
Um, I beg to differ, my friend! You are most certainly an artist and this is stunning! I LOVe the grays and browns on your winter scene! This is amazing. And just as you said on my card, I keep scrolling back up to yours to look again at the amazing art you created!
Registered: January 8, 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 36206
Sat, Jan 19, 2019 @ 7:55 PM
Wow, Bev, this is such a peaceful looking scene, wonderfully coloured! The fact that you have sketched this yourself is so impressive, you are an artist, indeed!
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Wow!
