Crafts: Painting and Drawing
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A Festive Painted Cut-Out Bouquet For The Front Door!
The Jewish holiday of Shavuot starts on Sunday night, and our front door is ready! I just love painting flowers and cutting them out, as with the water color poppies cut outs, and am also really pleasantly surprised by how wonderful a bouquet of painted flowers can be as well, especially when you free it from the confines of the paper! Of course a bouquet of flowers drawn and then painted, like this one, is all about planning, and execution, so after all that effort, you will want to use it again and again, or even hang it somewhere in a frame, and you should! The more flowers the better,…
- Crafts: Art Journal, Crafts: Painting, Crafts: Painting and Drawing, Crafts: Sketchbook, Crafts: Watercolors, Holiday: Shavuot
Simple Watercolor Leaves To Paint For Shavuot!
As you know, I love to create with a wide variety of media, and recently I’ve been devoting just a tiny pocket of time to filling my watercolor paper art journal with simple watercolor paintings. Check out my watercolor carrots, watercolor feathers and watercolor ferns. It is true, I’m loving the watercolor exploration as it is a relief from the intense oil pastel paintings I’ve been doing, though to create the kind of art I love with watercolors I’d need to combine them with acryla gouache and also get some liquid watercolors with intense colors, ah yes and huge pieces of watercolor paper! That said, my little travel watercolor palette…
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Simple Watercolor Feathers To Paint Today, For Lag B’Omer!
Tonight we welcome the festive holiday of Lag B’Omer, so why not carve out a tiny window of time to paint some watercolor feathers? It is true Lag B’Omer generally brings to mind images of bonfires and bows and arrows, but I’d say feathers, which are used to write the Torah, and certainly the Zohar, originally, are a perfect symbol as well! Plus, feathers are just so fun to paint, and I ended up filling two pages in my watercolor journal with them, and can’t wait to paint more, next time in a mix of rainbow colors or pastels, we’ll just have to wait and see! If I had the…
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Paint A Simple Pink Owl For Lag B’Omer!
After a really relaxing and beautiful few pages in my sketchbook filled with hebrew letters, I decided to start exploring creating on top of those pages! I had seen an owl painting tutorial by Tamara Laporte, as a part of sketchbook revival 2021 (now expired, sorry) and while I didn’t follow the tutorial, as it was with water color, I did draw an owl that looks just like hers….thanks Tamara! There is such a fine line between copying someone else’s work and creating something that is truly yours, and is this case it is some of both, though for the sake of an exercise in my sketchbook, it is certainly…
- Baby Gifts and Decor, Crafts: Hearts, Crafts: Painting, Crafts: Painting and Drawing, Crafts: Recycling, Holiday: L'Ag B'Omer, Recycled Clothing Crafts
Paint An Old Shoe With Graffiti Hearts!
This has to be one of my crazier ideas, but I just couldn’t resist and it was relatively quick, so here’s to whimsical upcycled art! And while this might seem like it is coming out of left field, just a bit, this could also be a craft for Lag B’Omer, you know just in case you’ve already made more bonfires, caves, and arrows than you can bear. Because my friends, Rebbi Shimon, whom we celebrate on Lag B’Omer was all about ahavas yisrael, Jewish unity! And what more fitting than a bunch of hearts that together comprise a wonderful lively piece of well, funky decor? And honestly, who couldn’t use…
- Crafts: Art Journal, Crafts: Doodle Art, Crafts: Drawing, Crafts: Oil Pastel, Crafts: Painting and Drawing
How To Make A Simple Folder To Hold Your Pastel Drawings
If you follow me on instagram on my art account @sara.rivka.dahan, then you certainly know that I’m on a journey to make 100 5″ x 7″ oil pastel drawings/paintings. (If you don’t follow me, please do, I need you!) More on that later, the big question is, what to do with them all, especially since pastel is gooey and sort of wet for years, unless sealed, which is another story. So, lets just say that all the pastel drawings are not sealed, because why invest in that (time, money and toxins) when you are learning right? Yes you could sandwich each piece in a piece of tracing or parchment paper,…
