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!
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Tue, Jan 22, 2019 @ 3:32 PM
WOW, BEV!!!! Your card looks like the canvas you found! IT IS GORGEOUS!!!! DON'T tell us you aren't an "artist!" LOL You did a WONDERFUL JOB on this!!! STUNNING WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Wed, Jan 23, 2019 @ 7:29 AM
Oh now that is such an incredible scene to see!! You have sketched this yourself and I think you are quite the artist my friend!! I'm so proud of you and the awesome art you've made here my friend!! WOW!!
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Registered: April 18, 2011 Location: Melbourne, Aus Posts: 51844
Wed, Jan 23, 2019 @ 6:27 PM
I can't believe I missed this!!! Bev I just looked in my copy of World Famous Artists Edition IV....what do you mean you are not an artiste, you take up an entire chapter. Jaw dropping spectacular my friend.
------------------------------ Susie
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Registered: April 18, 2011 Location: Melbourne, Aus Posts: 51844
Wed, Jan 23, 2019 @ 6:31 PM
Me again, I had a laugh when you said you coloured the chickadees best you could. Bev, short of plucking a real birs and sticking the feathers on this card, I don't see how they could look any more authentic. I hope you frame this gorgeous creation and keep it forever.
------------------------------ Susie
Please don't take your organs to heaven - heaven knows we need them here.