



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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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.
Goodreads~ The Invention Of Wings
Goodreads~ Henna Artist Description
Goodreads~ Where The Lost Wander
Featured photo came from Unsplash.com
Here are my latest watercolor and illustrations!
This is for Cee’s Fun Foto ~ Sense of Taste
Watercolor by Daphsam
Feathery and colorful,
beautifully laying there.
Flirty sensation for all that feels them.
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.
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!
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!
This is for April Landscape Photo(s) A Day Challenge
This is for Cee’s Flower of the Day (FOTD) Challenge
A lovely Persian Buttercup also known as a Ranunculus. This is for Flower Of The Day~ Cee’s
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.
I highly recommend this book. It’s a perfect TIME to read it now during this uncertain time.
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
Here are a few of my favorite photos to celebrate Earth Day, Mother Earth!
This lovely Pink Peony is a “Color Magnet” peony that has lovely pink cupped petals. This was photographed at the New York Botanical Gardens.
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
Beautiful Georgia Azalea Magnet Azalea is Georgia’s state flower.
Aloha Hawaii Peach Color Hibiscus Magnet The Hibiscus is the Hawaiian State Flower.
Passionflower Tennessee State Flower Magnet The state flower of Tennessee is the Passion Flower.
Photographed in Positano, Italy. I thought this was perfect for Fresh, Start With Letter L.
This is a Bearded Iris that I thought would be perfect for April Colors & Letters- Iris