July challenges

Comment Finished date July 2025
I'm continuing with a mash-up of art challenges.They will be a mix of materials and techniques, see each post for details.

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1. You woke up! - is a combination MondayMehfirmations and TheTuesdayCollective with the theme sloth.
This is a digital drawing using Procreate.

 

1. July/Radiant - is a combination of SurfeRickJuly & Doodlewash and it is an A6 ink drawing with a watercolour wash.

 

2. Disorder - from the SarcasticLetteringChallenge, but I illustrated the sarcasm instead because I don't have nice handwriting. This drawing is A5 on paper using copic markers and ink with digitally added text.

 

Larkspur - TheTuesdayCollective this week challenged me to paint flowers. I wanted to go loose, so this is a A4+ watercolour painting and it was so much fun to paint.

 

6. Fire unicorn - this weekend was spent in a dark room with a migraine, so I used the time to finish a digital drawing I started in Procreate for the June Creature Challenge; a folklore mashup of a firebird and a unicorn.

 

7. Lukewarm - and then I discovered the mirroring (symmetry) function in Procreate, so I made a quick drawing for Monday Meh-firmations

 

Statement earring - TheTuesdayCollective this week the challenge was "Statement earring". I thought about the Vermeer painting of the "Girl with the pearl earring", but reproduced using only ballpoint pen ... so that is what I did on a A5 paper. I didn't get the face right.

 

10. Turtle - another watercolour for Doodlewash and Water colour month. A watercolour sea turtle on an A4 that I later went over with Inktense pencils and ink.

Before the Inktense pencils an ink was added

 

12. Rumble - is apparantly a sound made by guinea pigs, and this is Pelle, a guinea pig I had when I was a kid. Watercolour for Doodlewash and Water colour month. I have more pictures of it here.

 

16. Geode - I just love semi-precious stones and geodes. This was painted with watercolours on 9X12 inch Langton cold pressed watercolour paper. Geode for Doodlewash and Water colour month and Jewel tones for TheTuesdayCollective.

 

Lighthouse - we are in the middle of summer and I found a new challenge called ArtistryInkChallenge, where prompts are going to be posted montly. I combined three of them in this small ballpoint drawing; lighthouse, sailboat & seagulls

 

18. Shell - is a combination MondayMehfirmations and shell/seashell from two other challenges.This is a digital drawing using Procreate.

 

20. Sunshine - from the SarcasticLetteringChallenge. I don't know why, but cats fits with sarcasm for me. This drawing is A5 on paper using copic markers and ink with digitally added text.

 

20. Refreshing - this strawberry ice cream is from the FoodPaintChallenge, but it also fits the LittleLifeJuly25 prompt "Refreshing" from today. It is a digital painting done in Procreate

 

Surfboard - this is a mix of two challenges, "surfboard" for ArtistryInk_challenge and the quote is from the SarcasticLetteringChallenge. It is a digital painting done in Procreate

 

Common sense - this quote is from the SarcasticLetteringChallenge. It is a digital painting done in Procreate

 

Snakey - was a corn snake that we had 20 years ago. This is acrylic on a 20x20 cm canvas, the background is from some gelli printing. Snakes is the current theme for TheTuesdayCollective.

 

31. Tower & postcard - this is a mix of two challenges, "postcard" for ArtistryInk_challenge and "tower" for Doodlewash. It is an ink and watercolour that is 10x15 cm.

 

House plant - TheTuesdayCollective this week challenged me to paint a house plant, I went with a bonsai. This is a A4+ watercolour painting, it tooks me two tries to get the result I wanted. This painting also works with the Doodlewash theme of "Ornate".

 

 

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