Black cat in acrylics

I wanted to paint a black cat for my son for Christmas. I was having trouble getting a cat that I thought my son would want on his wall.  So I decided to go with a technique that I use in backgrounds. I put drops of paint on a heavy watercolor paper then I used a piece of white card stock to smear the paint across the paper. 

I was going to use the card stock to practice on before I painted on the watercolor paper. I liked how the card stock turned out so much. I framed the card stock. When I gave it to him, I told him it was his cat Neo. He just looked and me and said “I know mom”.  He said he liked it , so that’s good. For his birthday, maybe I’ll try to paint his other cat.

Watercolor

To start this painting I picked heavy watercolor paper. I soaked the paper with plenty of water then I covered the paper with a blue wash. Then I dripped red, orange and green onto the still wet paper. After the paper dried I highlighted shapes and added shading using watercolor pencils.

More Mixed Media Zentangle/Doodles in Circles

Here are some more examples of Zentangles in circles.

Here is another zentangle and doodles in circles painting, this time I used a freshwater fish theme.

The frogs are markers and colored pencils on construction paper.

I had a lot of fun with the circles, I hope you try it out.

Mixed Media Zentangle/Doodles in Circles

To try something new (to me) I decided to use circles to put my patterns in.

I started with 9x12 watercolor paper. I used a plate and a bowl for the large circles, a cd for the medium circles and a jar lid for the small circles.

I filled in the background with blue and green watercolor and orange and yellows watercolor for the circle. I spilled blue on the painting, I decided to just work around it.

I thought the large circle was too big for one pattern, so I broke it up with a design that connected the circles. Then I put a dragon tail behind the design.

I filled in the designs I started with watercolor pencils.

I filled in the background on the large circle with black ink.

Using a black ink gel pen I inked in more patterns, including a dragon wing to go with my dragon tail.

I shaded in my patterns using colored pencils and put highlights on my center design using a white watercolor crayon.

I filled in the background with little circles and abstract designs.

I used watercolor crayons to lighten what was too dark and markers to add color and shading to everything that needed it.

9x12 Watercolor

Happy Halloween! here is some art work I did for Halloween.

revamped art journal box