Sea Turtle

2023-02-13 day 241 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off). 

I followed a Tatyworks tutorial. I went rogue in spots, which is becoming increasingly common. It was fun!

For more info, follow this link: https://lmashton.com/sea-turtle/

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Watercolour painting of a blue …

2023-02-11/12 day 239/240 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off).

This was a bit weird, but also strangely fun!

I followed another Tatyworks tutorial. And by follow, I mean sort of but not entirely. 🤣 I went rogue at one point, then reined it in at the end.

I used a photo I took of my dearly beloved, @Fahim, of course. And at one point, gave him entirely too many moustache curls. 😂 I fixed it, though. The curls were a bit much.

Halfway through, I quit. I hated it at that point. Then a day later, I figured, nope, gotta finish it. It’s all about learning something, right? Right? I mean, that’s why I do these tutorials. Right? 🤣 So I finished it. And here is the most lovely result.

For a link to a timelapse and the tutorial, follow this link: https://lmashton.com/retro-fahim/

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A retro four colour posterized …

Red Flowers In Emroidery

2023-02-09/10 day 237/238 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off). 

This was a Tatyworks tutorial using brushes that mimic embroidery stitches. The brushes and background image are provided by her at no cost at the link for her tutorial.

This was fun and definitely something a bit different than the usual.

Years ago, and by years, I mean decades, when I was a wee child, my grandmother taught me embroidery. I learned the basics and enjoyed it, but didn’t really take it any further. My other grandmother taught me crocheting, and I knitted, too, and have many friends who are prolific knitters and crocheters. About twenty years later, I took up cross stitch for a brief time period. I have friends who are avid cross stitchers and can do brilliant stuff. Embroidery and other fibre arts are no longer possible for me with my vision problems along with arthritis and unstable dislocating fingers. But this, using an iPad and Procreate, I can do. And this project took me back to some fond memories of my grandmothers.

For more info, follow this link:
https://lmashton.com/red-flowers-in-emroidery/

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Red flowers with trees in the b…

Flowerfall

2023-02-07/08 day 235/236 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off). 

Yes, I'm catching up on my backlog of posting.

No tutorial for this one. This is more playing with oil brushes.  

For more info, follow this link:
https://lmashton.com/flowerfall/

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Yellow, orange, and red flowers…

Love Heart

As opposed to a hate heart or something? Yeah, I dunno.

2023-02-02 day 230 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off). 

I did this one on a whim. Valentine’s Day was coming when I did this so it seemed like something to do. And it was fun! I am, of course, a month late posting this.

For more info, follow this link:
https://lmashton.com/love-heart/

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Digital art in mostly pinks and…

Japanese Landscape

2023-01-31 to 02-01 day 228/229 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off).

For more info, see the blog post at https://lmashton.com/japanese-landscape/

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Digital artwork. In the foregro…

Forest Bears

2023-01-30 day 228 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off).

This is a Tatyworks tutorial. I did a few things a bit different than her instructions indicated. I like it!

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A mamma bear and a baby bear wa…

Boat on a Beach series

2023-01-28/29 day 226/227 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off).

I started with a reference photo, and after I painted the first one, I decided to experiment with various styles and methods. I was curious, and what better way to learn?

I’m curious which one you like most? I mean, I know which one I prefer, and Fahim gave me his vote as well, but what about you?

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A red and aqua coloured boat on…
Same as the first.
Same as the first.
Same as the first.

Yin and Yang
2023-01-26/27 day 224/225 of doing art every day for a year (mostly - I took sick days off).

This is just me having fun.

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A yin and yang symbol, one half…

Uluru

2023-01-24/25 day 222/223 of doing art every day for a year (mostly - I took sick days off).

This is a James Julier tutorial. This is not meant to be a faithful reproduction of Uluru - I did not use a photo reference.

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https://youtu.be/06VHq9qLzRw
A sun setting behind Uluru rock…

Apple in Oil

2023-01-20 day 221 of doing art every day for a year (mostly - I took sick days off).

Some friends commented about a previous piece, titles Oranges in Oil, and how they expected oranges swimming in oil, like a food item. Totally fair. This piece was titled prior to their comments, so it stays. Just because.

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A red apple on a dark blue tabl…

On the Lake

2023-01-18/19 day 219/220 of doing art every day for a year (mostly - I took sick days off).

This is a Tatyworks tutorial.

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Tutorial: https://youtu.be/H09NKFSBGIQ
Surrealist digital painting. Tw…

Hopper

2023-01-02-03/06 day 231/234 of doing art every day for a year (mostly - I took sick days off).

I am posting this piece out of order - I still have a backlog to catch up on. I'll get to that after this one.

No tutorial for this one. This is by request from Fahim. He had the idea of an egg-shaped rabbit sort of creature called a Hopper, not to be confused with Sri Lankan hoppers which are a food thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appam

I had some fur brushes I wanted to try out, so I did. And then it morphed into an alien landscape since, well, I felt like it plus it was to go along with a short story Fahim wrote that takes place in The Basement of the Universe, a place we created together, in our 50 Galaxies universe. Yep, there's a huge backstory here.

I've posted a link to Fahim's story and a time lapse of the digital painting on my blog, which you can find here: http://lmashton.com/hopper/

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A white with purple undertones …

Red Flowers

2023-01-16/17 day 217/218 of doing art every day for a year (mostly - I took sick days off).

This is me having fun. I think it could be done better, but I'm not there yet. I'll work on it.

I've uploaded a Timelapse for this piece. You can view it here:

https://youtube.com/shorts/YrdI0iCoauk

If you want to view older artworks I've done, I'm posting them to my blog at https://LMAshton.com. It'll be a little while until I've got them all posted.

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A digital painting. In the fore…

Oranges in Oil

2023-01-14/15 day 215/216 of doing art every day for a year (mostly - I took sick days off).

This was another experiment using oil paints in Procreate. Obviously not real oil paint, but brushes that are designed to simulate oil paint. And the more playing I do with these brushes, the more I love them. They're fun!

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A digital oil painting. Oranges…

Lotus

2023-01-12/13 day 213/214 of doing art every day for a year (mostly - I took sick days off).

This was another experiment, ie me having fun.

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A pink lotus in front, green le…

Dandelion Glow

2023-01-11 day 212 of doing art every day for a year (mostly - I took sick days off).

This isn't strictly a painting and more a composite sort of image with a manipulated photograph (the dandelions) and painting on top.

I was aiming for ethereal and magical.

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A glowing dandelion surrounded …

Watercolour Lake

2023-01-10 day 211 of doing art every day for a year (mostly - I took sick days off).

I'm a bit behind in posting, so don't be surprised at a whole bunch of posts showing up in the next few days. 🤣

This is a Tatyworks watercolour tutorial. I learn a lot about Procreate and how I can use it with her tutorials. I've tried watercolours without her, and they were a mess. 🤣

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https://youtu.be/NmzEVkvJCWA
Digital painting in watercolour…

Sunflowers

2023-01-09 day 210 of doing art every day for a year (mostly - I took sick days off).

This is an experiment. I got a thick paint brush and wanted to take it for a spin, and this is the result.

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Yellow sunflowers painted digit…

I am impressed with the fur. Sure, it's not perfect, but it's so much better than I expected.

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An image of the Procreate app w…