Fun Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Art

Posted in Procreate, Uncategorized by daphsamphotographyandart

The one thing as an artist I’ve always wanted to do is be able to draw my beloved Cavalier King Charles Spaniel dogs. My goal for the year 2021 is to be able to draw them consistently and feel comfortable coloring them in the fun iPad drawing app Procreate. I’ve been taking classes on the website Udemy and Skill Share to learn more about cartoon drawing and painting techniques. Below I would like to show you some of my creations thus far.

This is Sadie, my 8 year old Cavalier Who is dressed up for a day in Paris, France. This gave me a fun way of playing with fashion illustration which I’m very much interested in. I do have to get better at drawing fashion models. The time being, I can add some fashion on my dog!

Here is Sadie throwing a snowball at my other dog, a Labradoodle, Duke. This was a great challenge for me. I’m not used to driving elaborate at all and working on trying to create texture in the image without it looking too messy was quite a balance.

I started this right around Christmas and finished it by New Year’s Day. I have three Cavalier King Charles spaniel‘s and one Labradoodle. I really wanted to create a Christmas ornaments for our tree of the four dogs.

Once I start feeling comfortable with my Cavalier King Charles drawings I will branch out to other dogs. I’m looking forward to this year as I hope to really grow with experience using Procreate and cartoon drawing. I am going to take a break from Watercolor for the time being to see how far I can go with this new venture.

9Jan2021

Winter Mittens created in Procreate!

Posted in Procreate by daphsamphotographyandart

Here are my designer mittens that I created with a few of my own brushes. The mitten texture is from a photo of a quilt that I photographed. The fuzzy cuff is from a texture of a close up photograph of a dog bed.

I am having so much fun incorporating my photos into digital drawing in Procreate.

7Jan2021

Take time for yourself- Procreate digital drawing Bubble Bath

Posted in Illustrations, Life Skills, Life Tips, Procreate by daphsamphotographyandart

My sister and I are doing a Instagram challenge for the month of January. One of the prompts was bubble bath. Now with my new fascination on learning everything there is to drawing with the app Procreate, I decided try to draw a bubble bath in Procreate.

What I love about Procreate is I’m able to incorporate my own photography into creating brushes. I used a textured brush that I made from a pine tree photograph to accent and give texture to the plants. With the hair towel, I used a photo of a quilt that I made into a quilt texture brush . The marble floor is from a photograph of a marble floor that I made into a brush.

These are stressful times with Covid, daily life pressures, all the crap that’s happening in the political world. It’s important to take time out for yourself. Do some thing that will give you the peace and quiet that you so deserve. It’s so important to your mental and physical health. So if it’s taking a bubble bath, sitting by the fireplace and reading, going for a walk outside, whatever it may be, take your time.

For me, it’s creating art. Getting lost in my imagination and working on getting my ideas on top paper, the iPad, writing. Taking a walk with my husband and dogs.

What does me time look like for you?

If you’re interested in joining this challenge on Instagram, we welcome all mediums, you could do one or all prompts, whatever works for you. Just use the #januart2021

1Nov2020

Cute Spooky Halloween Short Stories

Posted in art challenges by daphsamphotographyandart

One Halloween night, these two friendly Ghost went for a walk in an abandoned pumpkin patch. They had finished early with their trick and treating so they decided to find a quiet place to share their candy. As they were wandering around looking for a place to settle, a spider landed on the head of the little Ghost. Well, that was too much for the little Ghost. He began to scream! This only freaked out his friend, who also began to scream! Their screaming echoed into the night frightening others who were nearby. The old abandoned pumpkin patch is known for injecting fear to those who enter it’s patch.

There once was a witch name Miranda who riding on loved her broom stick during the cold autumn nights. One night as she was getting ready for her ride, she found her broomstick broken in two! Poor Miranda was so brokenhearted she just had to give her broomstick a proper burial. Every night Miranda would take her self to the graveyard and visit her broomsticks burial site. She never knew she was being watched by spooky little friends.

It was Miranda’s cat who went into a jealous rage one evening and had broken her broomstick. For he never liked when she spent so much time with her beloved broomstick. No, Miranda never figured out that it was her cat who had done the deed.

All artwork and story was created by Daphsam

1Nov2020

Silent Sunday-Autumn Fox

Posted in Photoshop CS 5 Creations by daphsamphotographyandart

8Jul2020

Watercolor Food Illustration

Posted in Illustrations, Watercolor by daphsamphotographyandart

Food illustration has become my passion these days. There is something about spending my time looking at food and trying to capture the exact look of the food or drinks. Here are my latest watercolor of food and drinks!

All of my watercolor is on Arches Cold Press 300 g/m

My watercolor paint that I am using is Windsor and Newton tubes and Sennelier L’Aquarelle Watercolor pan set

Pancakes with blueberries and strawberries.

Lemon Meringue Pie

Chocolate Strawberry Cake. I find it hard to get the plate down correctly. I am more comfortable with just the food illustration. I need to continue to work on pushing myself out of my comfort zone with watercoloring the plate.

Chocolate Donuts. I enjoy watercolor that shows a photorealism.

Raccoon in a Lollipop Candy store.

Salmon sashimi, this is a mix of watercolor and macron pen.

Spaghetti with tomatoe sauce. This was a first for me to draw and watercolor a fork. Again this is a mix for watercolor and macron pen.

Sunset Vodka Drink with Strawberry. Another challenge for me is getting the ice cubes and glass rim perfect and less sloppy.

All of my watercolor food illustrations are on my Zazzle shops.

Zazzle Daphsamsart

Zazzle.com daphsam greeting card

8Jun2020

Watercolor Eiffel Tower

Posted in Watercolor by daphsamphotographyandart

As a watercolor artist and I am still a beginner, this was a dream for me to watercolor! I really wanted to do this one. I did this with pen, watercolor and finished the Eiffel Tower in Gold Acrylic.

I plan on putting this on some postcards, greeting cards, tissue paper at my Zazzle.com/daphsam shop.

2Jun2020

Latest Book Review~ Highly Recommend!

Posted in Book Review, Uncategorized by daphsamphotographyandart

The past month I have listened to many books. Here are some of my favorites from the past month!

The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

Goodreads~ The Invention Of Wings

The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi

Goodreads~ Henna Artist Description

Where The Lost Wonder by Amy Harmon

Goodreads~ Where The Lost Wander

Jane Eyre

Goodreads~ Jane Eyre

Featured photo came from Unsplash.com

2Jun2020

Cee’s Flower Of The Day~ Red Zinnia

Posted in Flower Photography, Uncategorized by daphsamphotographyandart

Red Dahlia Flower

The lovely Zinnia for your Tuesday Flower of the Day by Cee’s Flower Of The Day

2Jun2020

DaphXine’s Art Challenge Desserts Art Challenge~ Week 1 Cookies or Biscuits

Posted in art challenges, Uncategorized by daphsamphotographyandart

My Sister and I have started an art challenge on instagram and here!

So break out your art supplies or camera and tag #dessertsartchallenge #daphsam #xinesegalascreativearts

27May2020

Walking Tour In Positano, Italy

Posted in Travel Photography by daphsamphotographyandart

21May2020

Orange Hibiscus Flower Of The Day

Posted in Flower Photography by daphsamphotographyandart

Same photo edited in Pixaloop

20May2020

Fun, Trendy Wine Labels

Posted in Uncategorized by daphsamphotographyandart

Here are a few trendy wine labels that I have been working on in my Zazzle shop!

Watercolor Lemons Congratulations On New Home Wine Label A lovely wine label with Lemons watercolor for a Housewarming gift!

Watercolor Congratulations Graduate “Kind Of” Wine Label Watercolor Graduation Wine Stickers that can be personalized.

Pink Peonies Watercolor Bridesmaid Wine Label This is a watercolor pink peonies pattern as a wine label. You can change the message to make it work for you!

Watercolor Luggage New Home Wine Label Watercolor of cute luggage with a tag that says “New Home” and an Orchid plant!Congrats From Graduating Vet School CKCS Wine LabelCongrats From Graduating Vet School CKCS Wine Label

Congrats From Graduating Vet School CKCS Wine Label A sweet Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Wine label as a Congrats On Graduating From Vet School.

20May2020

Watercolor Show And Tell

Posted in Illustrations, Watercolor by daphsamphotographyandart

Here are my latest watercolor and illustrations!

For a Beach challenge I had to watercolor a pool float! So I wanted to create some thing that was a little bit more exciting than just a pool floats without a background. So I did this fun water pattern with my float.

This is for a flower watercolor challenge, dahlias. I decide to do painterly Dahlias.

For another flower art challenge, this is a realistic Peony to the best of my ability!

For the beach challenge, I had to watercolor a sun hat. So this gave me a great opportunity to practice my female profile illustrations.

Again for the beach challenge, I had to watercolor a fish. So I decided to work on my watercolor background and draw my beta fish in ink.

This was for a doodle wash challenge, I had to create a raspberry tart. This was a lot of fun to work on as I love to illustrate food.

20May2020

White Mini Rhododendron

Posted in Flower Photography by daphsamphotographyandart

19May2020

May Photo A Day Challenge~ Delicate Swallowtail

Posted in Flower Photography, Uncategorized by daphsamphotographyandart

City Sonnet~ May Photo A Day

A beautiful Anise Swallowtail Butterfly is what I thought of for the word Delicate.

17May2020

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge Sense Of Taste ~ Berry Tart

Posted in Uncategorized by daphsamphotographyandart

berry tart

Boy, I can’t wait for Le Pain Quotidien to open up! I miss their fruit tarts:(

This is for Cee’s Fun Foto ~ Sense of Taste

12May2020

Cee’s Flower Of The Day~ Spanish Anemone Marigold

Posted in Flower Photography, Uncategorized by daphsamphotographyandart

Cee’s Flower Of The Day

10May2020

Happy Mother’s Day With Black Cap Chickadee

Posted in Flower Photography, Uncategorized by daphsamphotographyandart

You are the rock that we all lean on.

The flower that brings beauty into our life.

You are the sand that flows and molds to

whatever challenges that present each day.

~Daphsam

9May2020

Fortress For Your Tears Poem

Posted in poetry, Watercolor by daphsamphotographyandart

Watercolor by Daphsam

Where is your fortress of fears,
Does it cradle all your tears,

Will, it hold through the years,
Don’t self-destruct in front of your peers.

~ Daphsam

8May2020

Rainbow Hydrangea~ Cee’s On The Hunt Of Joy

Posted in Flower Photography, Uncategorized by daphsamphotographyandart

This is for Cee’s On The Hunt Of Joy

Rainbow coloring on my Hydrangea.

5May2020

Cee’s Flower Of Day~ Hot Pink Orchids

Posted in Flower Photography, Uncategorized by daphsamphotographyandart

Phalaenopsis orchids for Cee’s Flower Of The Day

4May2020

Peacocks Feathers Prose

Posted in Photography, Uncategorized by daphsamphotographyandart

Brown Peacock Feathers

Feathery and colorful,

beautifully laying there.

Flirty sensation for all that feels them.

2May2020

Cee’s Flower Of The Day~ Garden Snapdragon

Posted in Flower Photography, Uncategorized by daphsamphotographyandart

Cee’s Flower Of The Day

Garden Snapdragon

2May2020

Happy May A Day Late! Duke My Labradoodle

Posted in dog photography by daphsamphotographyandart

Duke is the love of my life. At a young age of 4 years old, he has many health issues that we need to stay on top of. The past few days have been difficult as we received some news that his liver is not doing so well. He was diagnosed with IBS when he was a puppy. So, unfortunately, he has had to live on steroids to keep the IBS under control. He also has a special diet as well. Next Monday, he will have a liver panel blood test to see how his liver is work. Then we will come up with a plan under the Vet’s guidance on how to keep his liver healthy and strong. Please keep him our thoughts and prayers. This is a very difficult time for us.

30Apr2020

Water, Water Everywhere~ Newport, RI

Posted in Travel Photography by daphsamphotographyandart

water in Rhode Island

Rocky Water’s Edge in Newport, Rhode Island

This is for Water Water Everywhere Photos By Jez

30Apr2020

Photo A Day~ Goodbye April Mushrooms

Posted in Flower Photography by daphsamphotographyandart

I thought this was a great photo to say goodbye to April. Two sweet mushrooms together with a heart shape on the larger mushroom. It was quite a find for me!

This is for Photo A Day~ Goodbye April

30Apr2020

Wildlife Thursday~ Dolphin Fun

Posted in Wild Life Photography by daphsamphotographyandart

One year my family and I went to the Cayman Islands and got the chance to swim with the Dolphins! Here are some up-close photos of this amazing experiences!

30Apr2020

Show And Tell Watercolor

Posted in Watercolor by daphsamphotographyandart

Here are some of my watercolor from this week! Desserts and drinks themed!

All of my watercolor’s were done with three brands of watercolor.

1. Windsor and Newton

2. Reeves

3. Holbein

I only used two watercolor brushes, Silver Brush Black Velvet sizes 6 and 4.

The paper that I only use is Arches cold pressed rough.

I love taking pictures of flowers that has been always as a photographer my favorite thing to do. But with watercolor, I find that the food illustration seems to fascinate me!

28Apr2020

Cee’s Flower Of The Day~ Pink Rosa Davurica

Posted in Flower Photography, Uncategorized by daphsamphotographyandart

Cee’s Flower Of The Day

28Apr2020

April Landscape Photo(s) A Day Challenge~ Amalfi Coast

Posted in Travel Photography by daphsamphotographyandart

For today’s April Landscape Photos A Day Challange, I am to pick colorful landscape photos. Well, my thoughts went to Positano, Italy! My most colorful landscape dreamy photos! Enjoy! April Landscape Photos Challenge

27Apr2020

April Landscape Photo Challenge~ Bridges

Posted in Travel Photography by daphsamphotographyandart

Photographed in Venice, Italy from a motorboat!

This bridge was empty for the moment but minutes before it was really busy!

This is for April Landscape Photo(s) A Day Challenge

27Apr2020

Motivational Monday

Posted in Flower Photography by daphsamphotographyandart

26Apr2020

Copying The Masters~ Matisse And His Wife At Collioure

Posted in Master Artist by daphsamphotographyandart

Here is the original which was done by Andre Derain, summer 1905. The picture is of Mattisse and his wife. It was done on ink on paper.

To learn more Andre Derain, Matisse And His Wife At Collioure

When I was in art school learning about ink drawing, I chose this picture to work on learning about how the strokes where made. Below is my attempt to copying this picture. I saw that proportion is an area that needs work.

This was a great exercise of learning how to draw with ink and drawing. It was not that easy but I am willing to try this again with other master artists.

26Apr2020

Cee’s Flower Of the Day~ Allium Purple Sensation

Posted in Flower Photography, Uncategorized by daphsamphotographyandart

Surprisingly, these beautiful purple flowers are known as the Flowering Onion, I photographed these Colorado.

This is for Cee’s Flower of the Day (FOTD) Challenge

25Apr2020

Cee’s Flower Of The Day~ White Romantic Persian Buttercup

Posted in Flower Photography, Uncategorized by daphsamphotographyandart

A lovely Persian Buttercup also known as a Ranunculus. This is for Flower Of The Day~ Cee’s

24Apr2020

Cee’s Flower Of The Day~Japanese Quince

Posted in Photo Challenges, Photography by daphsamphotographyandart

I received these beautiful white Japanese Quince is a vase once for my wedding anniversary. They were so lovely that I had to take the time and work on capturing their beauty. I used French Kiss Textures for the background. In Photoshop I used the Masking tool to painted out the texture to get some of the flowers but kept some of the painted look.

24Apr2020

Quote Of The Day~ Time To Ponder

Posted in Book Review by daphsamphotographyandart

I highly recommend this book. It’s a perfect TIME to read it now during this uncertain time.

23Apr2020

Thursday Doors~ Venice, Italy

Posted in Travel Photography by daphsamphotographyandart

For today’s Thursday Doors, we take a trip to Venice, Italy. Doors are so symbolic, open a door to a future, close a door to a past. Sometimes there is something behind the door that we are hiding. Currently having a door closed to the outside world will protect you from the Coronavirus.

In Venice, Italy, the doors open to a world of historic beauty. Enjoy these doors from Venice and let your imagination run with what is behind these doors.

23Apr2020

FOWC~ A Nice Steak ~ Dinner

Posted in Watercolor by daphsamphotographyandart

For today’s word on FOWC with Fandango it is dinner!

So I decided to use my watercolor and pen drawings to give you a lovely dinner!

First, let’s start with some appetizers. Here are some Deviled Eggs with cucumbers and smoked salmon bites.

For the main course, some steak with thyme, roasted potatoes, and broccoli.

You get a choice of two desserts. The first is a delicious chocolate cupcake and then next is homemade Apple pie!

Enjoy my interpretation of the word dinner. FOWC- Dinner

23Apr2020

Cee’s Flower Of The Day~ Spotlight On The Daffodils

Posted in Flower Photography, Uncategorized by daphsamphotographyandart

These are Wild Daffodils from my yard. Cee’s Flower Of The Day

Narcissus pseudonarcissus

22Apr2020

Happy Earth Day! 2020

Posted in Life Tips, Uncategorized by daphsamphotographyandart

It’s Earth Day!

Earth Day is an annual celebration of an environmental movement. Recently, I have been hearing how the Pandemic has really gone to reducing pollution since people are staying indoors. With next to little to no use of cars, trains, airplanes, factories, pollution has shown signs of reducing. Even though this not a feasible way to help protect the environment, this might help Environmentalist to create a plan for the future on our fight to protect Mother Earth.

To read more about this topic check out NBC: Coronavirus lockdowns have sent pollution plummeting. Environmentalists worry about what comes next.

Here are a few of my favorite photos to celebrate Earth Day, Mother Earth!

Ways to Celebrate Earth day

Unplug unused electric appliances.
Washing your laundry in cold water.
Give away your old books, toys, clothing to the library or the VVA (Vietnam Veterans of America) VVA Pickup
Plant some flowers!
Stop drinking out of plastic bottles- there are some great water bottles out there instead.
Use reusable batteries- they do work! I highly recommend Eneloop Pro Batteries
Recycle!
Use Energy Saver Light Bulbs, I recommend Phillips Energy Saver Light Bulbs They last much longer than a regular light bulb.
Switch to e-books~ Save the trees!
Use reusable grocery bags Zazzle~ Daphsam’s Reusable Grocery Bags

If you haven’t seen Moving Art on Netflix, here is a trailer of season 2 that will captivate you! There are 3 seasons of this beautiful cinematography with outstanding music. A great TV show to watch on Earth Day!

Happy Earth Day!

21Apr2020

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge~ Sense Of Seeing~ Amalfi Coast

Posted in Uncategorized by daphsamphotographyandart

I always found Positano, Italy was “Eye Candy” for the sense of seeing. Here are some of my favorite photos from my trip.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge~ Senses Of Seeing

21Apr2020

PFTW~ 64~ Sunflower Butterfly

Posted in Photography, Photoshop CS 5 Creations, Uncategorized by daphsamphotographyandart

PHOTO FOR THE WEEK – 64 – CREATIVE

Here is my creative Photoshop creation of a Sunflower with butterflies flying out of the Sunflowers!

Brashley Photography Creative week 64

21Apr2020

Pink Peony “Color Magnet”~ Cee’s Flower Of The Day

Posted in Flower Photography, Uncategorized by daphsamphotographyandart

This lovely Pink Peony is a “Color Magnet” peony that has lovely pink cupped petals. This was photographed at the New York Botanical Gardens.

Cee’s Flower Of The Day

20Apr2020

Show And Tell~ State Flower Magnets

Posted in Flower Photography by daphsamphotographyandart

I have many different flowers that I have photographed and I thought it would be fun to make some magnets that match my flowers to the states! Currently here are the ones that I have in my Zazzle shop!

Colorado