Pen and watercolor illustration
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Enjoy art projects in pink

Illusions and visions

There is no “undo” command in our life. This makes everything we pursue, experience or achieve absolutely irreversible. Everything is a small moment, frozen in time. As I’m typing these words or you’re reading them, the past washes this moment away and puts it in the big folder of our lifetime’s history. The cold sun rays of the disappearing day are pouring over the nearby rooftops and the highest tree branches. This creates an illusion of warmth in the air. Yet, it is an illusion. As the quiet stream of twilight starts flowing across the sky, we will find ourselves in even colder conditions, minus thirty or so. That’s why we create art projects in sunny colors.

How ro start drawing and painting

Uplifting colors for grey mood

How does this relate to pink projects? Very simple: when the environment is unfriendly, we should try doing something pleasant. For me, that is drawing and painting something which takes me far away from this cold winter day and places in surroundings where I’d love to be. This is an easy mental transformation into a feeling-better state. We actually did similar project in the classroom. The first project was all about yellow and orange, and the next one was painting flowers in pink. These projects can be done by absolutely everybody whether they have any experience or not. They are as basic as one, two, three.

Step 1

Choose the reference image and draw the main lines with pencil or do a drawing from memory.

Drawing for pen and watercolor blossoms

Step 2

Draw over the most suitable lines with a black pen. Black ink can be used, as well, if somebody has it.

Drawing for pen and watercolor blossoms

Step 3

Follow the reference image or your imagination and apply colors which seem to be most fitting the drawing. We apply color on one leaf or on one petal at a time. We start with light washes and go over some areas with more intense color. Wash out connection lines with pure water.

Apple blossoms, spring watercolor

The result

Drawings which do not look perfect at all become extremely beautiful with this approach. We were applying washes and glazes of yellow, red, crimson red and dark red with blue. Any color was applied using various intensity. These projects took us about 3 hours in total. The rose was painted in a similar way. Since it is pure watercolor, I used only watercolor paint without black pen.

Watercolor painting, apple blossoms

Start seeing

Just one more thing:  everybody can draw and paint and, therefore, create for themselves a beautiful rescue place where to avoid troubles and hardships. However, we have to learn seeing things in an artistic way first. This feels almost like developing a much better perception of the surrounding world. We are used to see everything just walking by and running over. Now, it is time to start noticing lines, shapes, shadows, colors, contrast and features that make this particular subject attractive. That is the moment when we can put it on paper or canvas.

Pen and watercolor illustration

Drawing and painting with watercolor is fun. Such illustrations and paintings are beautiful and look fantastic in your art portfolio, on your wall and when published.

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52 Replies to “Enjoy art projects in pink”

    2. 🙂 Yes, I love that soft pink too 🙂 and I like what you said about doing something lovely when the world seems little chaotic 🙂 <3

    1. Thanks Diane! I appreciate you read the article and found it interesting! These are from our most recent project. I always need to do quite a few demos, and time to time, I am finishing them, too!

  10. Thank you for your comments about the internet. Recently I have been researching botanic art and after looking at all the beautiful work I have begun to see my own work in a different light. It is easy to feel diminished by it all, so I will follow your advice and do it for myself, because I love to paint.

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    1. Absolutely! People sometimes imagine that their work needs to be compared to some imagined standards, however, the freedom and creativity in art means, that we can all do it in our own way and nobody should point at this and say this is incorrect. There are millions of options to express oneself and the most important part is simply follow your heart and feelings and over time you’ll achieve what you are looking for. I would advise never to give up any activity which makes you happy just because the results of your work do not look exactly like somebody else’s work which again some person has described as good. That’s why we are unique and have rights to implement this uniqueness in our writing, painting, drawing, singing, playing an instrument, dancing and so on.

    1. Absolutely everybody can learn to draw and paint, it’s just so that some can people see things that other people cannot. To learn painting or drawing we have to start with exercising our ability to see things in proportion, in relationship to other ones and as well proportions within the particular object. It takes some practice, but everybody can easily draw approximate and generalized objects. The block is most often in the way we think about this activity, so the first task should be: unblock the mind and relax allowing the hand to put your vision onto paper or canvas.

    1. Thanks! It means these drawings and paintings make the right impression! I was just thinking today: I don’t want to paint any more winter, not at all, just flowers, spring, summer and sunny fall. No snow and no cold touched landscapes!

  13. Hi Inese,

    How is the medication working and how are you doing? You looked fantastic in your photo with your valentines flowers.

    I am now able to drive, and can sit for a couple of hours, so I was wondering if I can join in your March evening classes? What night do you have space?

    Chris

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    1. Thanks Helen! Your botanical paintings are done with such accuracy! They look so real and attractive! Well, I can unfortunately spend on each image some hour, sometimes two, but that’s all. Time is of big importance, and I regret not being able to spend as much of it as I would love on any drawing. However, I also use a transparent paper for initial drawing since I am doing it whenever possible from the real thing. Drawing always was and will be my most favorite part of any painting.

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