Saturday, August 29, 2009
Thursday, July 30, 2009
The Quilting Girl
Now that I have found a design for a greeting card for Quilt Girl, I have been digitally enhancing my pencil drawing. Everyone loves quilts, and I have met so many quilters in The Land of Blog. Here is the original pencil sketch.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Alice in Wonderland
I love creating artwork for Alice in Wonderland, so when Vanessa from A Fanciful Twist invited me to the Mad Hatter Tea, I couldn't resist.
For this design, I used a background from Pickleberrypop.
I also enjoy using my photograph as a little girl inside my watercolor, as Alice. This was designed for the Mad Hatter Party from 2008.
As a mixed-media artist, I just love to combine, my sketches, artwork, and photographs. For this piece I also used the background I purchased from Pickleberrypost.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Brides & Blue Ribbons
pencil sketch and digital paints 2009
Creating designs with blue ribbons is always a favorite of mine. Especially when creating brides. Once upon a time, when I didn't know how to paint I fell in love with a bride painting in a museum.
oil painting on linen canvas 2003
The bride portrait was lovely with blue ribbons blowing in the breeze against a white veil. I still love sketching and painting bride portraits.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Mermaid Art
I love the sea and mermaids are such a lovely thing to create.
I painted a mermaid scene on clayboard and enhanced the texture using heavy embossing powder and embossing powders. Painted using watercolor and metallic paints.
Then a bit of photoshop enhancing...
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
Digital Paints
I love watercolor, oil and acrylic but when you take a creation painted in one of these mediums and then use your digital paints it seems textured perfectly.
I took a painting of Petunias, I photographed the painting and uploaded the work to my computer. Then using Photoshop I added just a bit of finishing touches.
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About Me
- Karen's Sketchbook
- I was raised in Long Island, New York and in my early twenties, moved to Manhattan and worked there for many years in the computer field. I have been an artist as long as I can remember. I started painting in 1983 while living in Princeton, New Jersey. I found lots of inspiration when we moved to Hong Kong for my husband's work. Five years later, we moved to Toronto. We returned to New England in 2002 and I have enjoyed all the creative and inspiring resources that surround me. The Lord has blessed my life with a wonderful family and many gifts.