Baby Triceratops

Jurassic World, this is all your fault :D Partially anyway, I have been wanting to draw a dinosaur for awhile.

Coral, Teal, and White were my palette colors, coral is hard to get with markers, I know it looks more peachy orange then coral (probably because I did use peach).

I giggle every time I look at the back horn, looks like its about to slide off the poor things head :D

Cross Stitch Progress

I'm trying a different method, instead of sticking to a spot and working out from it, I am now sticking to one color as much as I can do in the part I have framed. It just may be going a little faster that way. Only problem with that is if there is a lot of the color (like there was with the black and white) I start to go a little crazy and antsy to work on another color. I honestly don't know why.

Look at the cute ducky blob! Besides it being on sale I think I got this cause of that darn cute duckling!

You have posted everyday this week, what is going on?!
No work, all week. I really hate how slow summers are, August needs to hurry up and get here so I can WORK. Because next week, no work all week AGAIN. So I might try to post Mon.-Fri. again.

Aqua, Yellow, Pink

Because those are the colors I was following :D

I am definitely scanning this tomorrow because the colors aren't showing to well but I am so darn pleased with this first attempt. Three colors but seven markers since the color palette isn't as strict as the last three. ACEO size seems to work quite well so I don't know if I'll try anything larger. Maybe later...like way later :D

So here is something slightly amusing. I am using Prismacolor markers for the main bits, the black outline is actually Prismacolor ink pens, and for the longest time I only used Prismacolor pencils. Yeah just call me the Prismacolor poster child! But seriously, those ink pens are awesome ^_^

Eye See You

So, this is suppose to be a flamingo eye. I wanted to try something real and I really don't care for it. If I was going to do a bird I guess it wasn't the best choice for a close up :D

Another dragon eye, this will make the last eye. I was getting bored on this one and really not trying to put much effort into it. Think I'm going to "zoom out" and do full heads now as I still experiment with the markers. I really should try this out with water color pencils too...

Playing With Markers

Figured it has been awhile since I messed with prisma markers and when I did I never really tried to do anything great with them. So thought it was time to drag them back out and see what I could do. Starting off small, I only used three colors for this, I think I'm going to follow the color schemes for the Summer of Colors deal to play around with.

Tattoo Ideas #1

Title is an indication that there may be more ideas in the future. That is without a doubt.

So the theme for this round of tattoos is Moon and Sun. I started with the hubby's moon first because I wasn't sure how many ideas I was going to have to throw at him before he pounced on one. Imagine my surprise when round one (with four to look at) was all the further I had to go.
These two were turned down because he knew I wouldn't want to match my sun to something like them (thank goodness!) Don't get me wrong, I like skulls but I don't love them like he does.
So I am throwing them out here for others to enjoy or get an idea off of. I won't be showing the one he chose till it is inked onto his skin :)Unfortunately that's going to be awhile :D

Speaking of tattoos on skin here is the one I got last month, I apologize for the blurriness but person with camera doesn't have very steady hands :)

I designed it, the tattooist suggested the detailing as I had the design plain. I liked it so bam here it is on my right shoulder.

New Small Piece

Looks like a funny little blob right now but when it is done it will be a kitten and duckling duo. Found it for 60% off at the craft store and was like yes please! The only regret will be when I have to do the large amount of back stitching at the end :/

Mushroom Dump!

Figure I would just throw them all up at once. Now not only am I dating them, I am coloring coding them by location. The second one I was kicking myself because if I had went there a few days sooner, I would have had some species that I'd never seen before but they were black and dead when I got there.
The third place I was preoccupied with making sure I wasn't lost because I had never gone there before so I wasn't keeping a very good eye out for fungi. Next time I'll know where I am at/going so hopefully I'll spot more.

We are getting some nasty weather right now, lots of rain and thunderstorms that set the dogs to shaking. Last night was a mess waking up almost every hour because of loud thunder and the older dog unable to decide if he wanted to hide on the bed or not. Mean while the bull mastiff is trying to fit under a desk that wasn't big enough for her, poor babies :(

Small Cross Stitch

Only took me a little under two weeks as it is a little 6in x 6in. Debating if I want to hang it up or not.

FR Dragon

"Linna"
8.5in x 8.5in
Derwent colorsoft pencils on mat board

One of my Flight Rising dragons, Linna. She is a first generation lucky hatch that I have proudly added Genes to. The background is actually the markings that are on her wings.

There are a lot of mess ups on this and I know what mistakes I made but I left it go as a visual reminder what not to do next time. Think I'm going to be waiting a while before doing another color surfaced piece as the blue was really throwing me off when trying to get my colors right.

Wordless Wednesday

Mushrooms!

Went to the park yesterday and hit the 4 mile trail that winds through so many acres of woods. I didn't think I was going to see anything but I kept looking and sure enough they started showing up here and there ^_^

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Put them together as one image and dated it so that I know when and who. I couldn't remember when the best time of year was to look so maybe this year if I do this it will be easier in the future.