-
Watercolor Bird
Summer has been really busy and I was looking forward to fall but that lasted about three days max here in Calgary this year. There's been snow falling starting sometime yesterday and it's expected to continue to fall right into tomorrow afternoon.
-
Negative Space Painting
YouTube is such an amazing resource for learning just about anything from changing your brake lights to speaking a new language and (of course) learning art techniques as well. These paintings were done using a technique I saw on the @makoccinos channel. The idea of this technique is to start with the lightest color and then keep painting the negative space that’s around the shape you want in an increasingly darker shade. You end with the darkest color and layers and layers of paint underneath which gives the finished painting so much depth. © Ammara Cokar 2019
-
Art Journal Page- Grey Flowers
I haven’t shared much of my art journal in a long little while. This is a fairly old page that I did with paints that were leftover after working on another painting. My intention was to get something onto the page, anything really to get the creativity flowing. I went over the paints with a black gel pen to give the flowers some rough outlines and finish it off. I’ve now fully completed working in this art journal and started a new one which is much larger, lays open flat, and has cream colored pages. It’ll be fun exploring and playing with that journal and I look forward to sharing…
-
Thailand Phetchaburi Road
I had been in Bangkok a few days and I had a couple hours to kill so I asked the cab driver to take me anywhere nice. I had no idea where I was going or where I ended up at the time but he dropped me off in what looked like a bustling shopping area. I looked across the street and saw an insane amount of people as well as electric/phone cables so I just pointed my camera and snapped a quick photo. Little did I know, I was taking a painting class years later and my teacher told me to paint something from a photograph I took myself.…
-
Sports Jersey Name Pillow
Handmade, customizable name pillows that are made to order and great to give as gifts. They're done with caligraphy hand lettering or sports jersey lettering.
-
Whimsical Watercolor Owl Study
I love doing studies of other artist’s works in order to explore different styles and to further develop my own skills. This was a painting that the Watercolor Misfit (on YouTube) had playing in the background of one of her videos. I liked the way that this little owl looked so much that I had to try it out for myself. This image really reminds me of something that would live inside the pages of a children’s story book. The reason the owl below looks bumpy below is because I’ve covered it in masking fluid. I’m not sure if it’s the quality of my paper, of the masking fluid,…
