Ugly Christmas Sweaters

IF I sent out Christmas cards…..I think this would be the one.



In honor of those Ugly Christmas Sweater days!



I don’t know when I stopped wearing my ugly Christmas sweaters, but I did rack up a few.



I did this all in watercolor by brush. 



We are all missing our eyes here….we appear a little zoombie-ish.



Merry Christmas everyone!

Keep Calm and….

Gave the “Keep Calm” sign to a friend over a year ago when she had a little girl-gathering.  As girls being girls….we got a little carried away.



Did a contour drawing with some creative enhancements!



I’ve been wanting to do this caricature for quite awhile…but I needed to do my homework.



I had to find out a little more about these lovely ladies and incorporate it into the sketch.



Possibly this would have been a better Halloween post, cuz aren’t we all just a bunch of characters?



There’s the Hawaiian Dancer, the Lady Golfer, the Taxi Mom, the Dental Hygienist, the Bat-girl, the Dancer, the Pharmacist, the IU and the Alabama Cheerleaders and The Queen of our Hearts.  It’s all in good fun….just hope I don’t offend anyone.

Caricature Giveaway Promo

Since I am 7 likes away from 200 on my Draw.Doodle.Decorate Facebook page AND I’m in need of a portable project.  I’ve decided that I will offer up a Caricature Sketch as a prize when I reach 200 page likes.  As long as you meet the following criteria:

• Must Comment on this POST with the “Caricature Style” you like (see below)
• Must LIKE my Facebook page (I will need to cross reference commenters to LIKERS...if you've already liked it...then just comment here if interested)
• Must be “ok” with me drawing a jpeg that you submit for Caricature and be “ok” with a blog post about it.

This is a $30 value and just think, you get it for FREE. 



Please let me know which “Caricature Style” you would like:

1. Crazy
2. Freaky
3. Sunglass
4. Theatrical
5. Wacky
6. Zany

CONTEST will end JUNE 23rd.  Then I will pick the winner.

Caricature Drawings….New Etsy Shop Listing

I love to take group photos!! But what I like even more is to change them up a bit….colorize and whimsize them!  It’s just fun!



I’ve included a new listing in my Etsy Shop:

I can personalize them in just about any way you want….colors, gestures, hats, glasses, pattern…..done in markers, watercolors, black & white or any combination there of.



All I need is the jpeg file and I can draw a 8 x 11 Caricature piece on good watercolor paper.  I will include a digital jpeg along with the original drawing upon completion.



For my Bloggie-friends (that’s you), I am offering a discount….use DRAW5 at checkout to get $5 off the personalized piece.  Regular cost $27 (plus s/h)….your price $22.



Remember how you dress for Halloween!



I’ve got 6 varieties posted in the shop: 

1. Crazy
2. Wacky
3. Freaky
4. Sunglass
5. Incognito
6. Theatrical

Wouldn't this be a fun way to celebrate Family or an Event?
Just don’t forgot to enter DRAW5 coupon code at checkout.

Sunglass Saturday

Yea, Yea, I know it’s not Saturday…but I started this drawing on Saturday, so that qualifies! 

Above, is the inspiration picture for this drawing.  Found on pinterest, but the website [here], doesn’t take you to the artist.  So I don’t know who to give credit to for this. 



Contour drew everyone in….and embellished where I could.



My favorite combination:  Markers and watercolor.  Markers for the skin and the rest watercolor.



Just tried to make the colors sloppy….and swirly. I wanted some white space to show thru.



Added a winter hat to the guy (he turned out to be my favorite in this), and made the lady on the left give the Louisville sign.



Soon, I got to the details….the fun and flowery details.  What really makes this work is when I keep things loose.  Meaning……keep some circles open, let the lines overlap.



Had to do something with those mouths!! They were huge!  I opted out of drawing lips…lips are Hard!  I went in and made all the mouths gray.  Well, big mistake… everyone looked half-dead.  So then, I went over the gray and gave everyone white teeth.  Teeth so white it would make any dentist proud!



Just fun!!  I love how the blue lady looks like Janis Joplin…..too funny

Crazy Eight

Well….if I had my act together I would’ve posted this on Monday and then I could’ve called it “Mushy Monday”….but I was busy.



I morphed two pictures together for this one.  This is my mom’s side of the family and well….I have a crazy Aunt. 



Maybe she’s not the the only crazy one.  I think we all get a little “touched” when we are together.



I needed to do something different than the goofy pose drawings I’ve done before.

• Wacky Wednesday
• Theatrical Thursday
• Freaky Friday

I haven’t done any stripes yet and well….I’ve always been a big fan of stripes.



My kid sister in the background got an afro because well….I had a lot of white space to fill.  I think she wears it well.  Not too sure if I like the mouths here without lips.  It looks a little Munster-like.

Freaky Friday….Foto Fun

You’ve probably seen this picture on here before since it’s one of my favorite shots.  Many attempts were made to capture all these girls air-borne….let me tell you!



Drew them each out individually the template-way.



I really want to explore watercolor pencils more….but haven’t a clue what I’m doing.  Don’t know a thing about the boundaries of the pencils either.  I know I’ll be trying my hand at more than just “clothes & hair” in the w/c pencils, just gotta figure out what to draw.



It was discussed that the watercolor pencils play well with regular colored pencils, so I tried that here….but you can hardly tell!



I was almost going to finish this off the way I did the butterfly drawing, but I thought that might be too boring.



This turned out kinda cute.  I’m not sure if this is done yet…cuz there is a lot of white space up there.

I’m enjoying these Photo Phun pictures (Wacky, Theatrical)…there easy and mindless….meaning I don’t have to stress over line quality.  That Photo-Realism stuff sure uses that left side of my brain more.  It can get exhausting!! Haha

Theatrical Thursday

I had so much fun doing Wacky Wednesday last week, I thought I’d try it again.



Looked thru my files for goofy photos and came across this one.  There are twenty-two “characters” in this picture.  Oh Yeah…the fun I can have with all these innocent people!!



Instead of coloring in the clothes with watercolor pencils…it was time to use my long-lost markers!



Tried to use every single color in the rainbow.  I think I succeeded.



I am “on the fence” with whether or not I should put eyes in.  What do you think?



As is my habit…used more of the warmer colors than the cooler ones.  The mix seems to work here.
I wonder if anyone knows just how many bunny ears are up there?

Wacky Wednesday

It all started because I dared to attempt two portrait color-sketches at the same time.



And my “real job” has been crazy.  New instruments, new technology, new codes!  Oh-MY!



My focus ran away and hid.  She was nowhere to be found.  It was time to coax her out with some color! Some fun!  Some light-heartedness! 



Since I wanted to do something easy I brought out my watercolor pencils.  I like the way the colors turned out.  For a few years now when we go to take our family picture at the end of our vacations….we do a totally goofy pose to counter the more stylish one, as seen above.



Some of us have more fun than others!  Probably because the leap between normal and crazy isn’t as far for them.



It was nice that my dear dog got in the picture as well.  We’re usually doing many re-takes cuz she likes to wander off.



Now, I’ve never had any one head-over-heels…..rather…. heels-over-head in these wacky shots!  I like it!!



Here’s to a Wacky Wednesday everyone!  May you allow yourself some time to goof off!