Tuesday, November 5, 2013

A Retro Dancer & Whimsical Cityscapes



Here's a pretty retro dancer with pink flowers in her hair. I used one of the faces I painted in the 29 Faces challenge--might as well put them to good use, right? Still took a whole though I'm not sure what took longer - painting her face or the rose!

I did something way out of my norm this weekend. I made mixed media cityscapes! Normally, I love creating mixed media art but I don't usually create cutesy whimsical things. This weekend I did! I run the Daily Drawing Group (in the Art Discussions forum if you're a member) over on ATCsforAll.com and I have to come up with challenges each week so thought a whimsical landscape challenge would be interesting. Only I ended up making whimsical cities for some reason. But there are hills, and trees! And clouds. That counts I think. The pieces are both 5" x 7". Tons of fun to make.

13 comments:

  1. I love these little townscapes, with the lollipop trees and cool colours. It would be nice if we had fun towns like these! Valerie

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  2. I love your cities with all the colorful miniscysrapers ;) And your digital piece looks like it was much work!! I can´t imagin doing something digital pppfff Thank you for your sweet comment on my blog!! Of course you are in the lotterypot so win a free place in the SOULFOOD Class ♥ Good luck :) ♥ Conny
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  3. The landscapes are super adorable! And those roses - wow. Amazing!

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  4. you're so creative and talented! Roses are hard to do. Love your whimsical cityscapes.

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  5. I love your girl! The roses are fantastic and her eyes are so beautiful! Your whimsical cityscapes are so pretty and lots of fun to look at.

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  6. Your girl is gorgeous with the roses in her hair... and I love the city-landscapes!

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  7. I remembered the over-the-shoulder pose of the lovely lady from 29 Faces, but not the colouring or the roses, so I just checked back, and see that you have worked on her quite a bit since then. The roses are gorgeous and I love the blue outline around her, just lovely. The hilly city-scapes are great fun.

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  8. Wow, she's beautiful! Love the teasing look on her face. Is this "real" paint or is it digital art? Love that swirly background too! and your mixed media cityskapes are sooo cute :-)

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    1. It's a digital painting with wacom and pen so real painting! Just not with traditional materials :)

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  9. Your cities are very cute and whimsical. I cannot tell you which one I like the most: they work great as a dypctich. As for the roses...I see what you meant! I hope mine will turn out half as pretty as yours! ;)

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  10. wonderful ATCs and the girl is awesome..I love that her dress goes so wonderful with the background...
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    my daughter owns a good wacom tablet..but I didn't try this yet...
    what grandios use with the tablet...my gosh!

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  11. Wonderful portrait, I love also the colorful whimsical city scenes very much.
    Have a nice day,
    big hugs Anja

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  12. Oh my gosh, the whimsical cities! Wonderfully cool. I particularly like the one in reds. Aaah, I totally have to do a cityscapes deco and send it to you. Of course, that involves actually making one, which I have not yet managed to do. In fact, I've only done a few unsatisfactory ATCS the last couple days. Arrrgh!

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