![]() I read The Colored Pencil Painting Bible by Alyona Nickelsen and Ann Kullberg’s Colored Pencil Portraits. I read Ann Swan’s book called Botanical Portraits with Colored Pencils and I still refer to that book from time to time. Soon I was googling and researching everything I could find about colored pencils and particularly botanicals. I think this is supposed to be a Peony but I’m not sure.□ My blending needs some work! But, I was proud of this drawing and I had so much fun doing it. Here is my (never before seen) very first attempt to draw a flower with colored pencils:) This was drawn in July of 2015. I have learned SO much from watching her techniques and I owe a lot to her tutorials. I binge-watched every single one of Lisa’s colored pencil tutorials on YouTube and when she started a Patreon account, I was one of the first to join. Quickly I found that I wanted my drawings to look more realistic and around the same time, I discovered Lachri Fine Art on YouTube. ![]() ![]() Soon I discovered a Facebook group called Ornation Creation where artists were combining Zentangle and doodling with outlines provided by an amazing artist, Ben Kwok, to create drawings that looked like this: I drew a new Zentangle piece every single day for several months. I had never drawn anything before and this seemed somehow accessible. ![]() If you are not familiar with Zentangle, it is a combination of patterns and lines that you draw using a micron pen. My son and I were at Michael’s and I happened to see an art book on Zentangle and I thought it really looked fun. For the first few months, I only drew Zentangle. And, tell you about my favorite teachers, tutorials, and books that helped me along the way. Today, I thought I would share a little bit of my backstory and my progression as an artist. ![]()
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