colour

"I must have flowers, always and always" - Claude Monet If you like my art, follow my instagram @ela.and.elsa

Reef sharks in the Gulf of Thailand

various pencil/ink

Coloured pencil and ink in my sketchbook for The Sketchbookproject.

my eye mine (5 pics)

This started as a sketch and then i played around with colour using procreate. Im really happy with how it turned out.

Pigment liner, colour pencils

This was a little watercolour I did for a novel called Flight.

at first I wanted to draw this on paper with colour pencils but I didn't have all the necessary colours so I switched over to digital. making the lips look like goldfish wasn't my initial intention but I like how it came out in the end

0.1 art pen, colour pencils

Coloured pencils

blind contour drawing with color

Halftone colour, digital. Col-Erase & Pigma marker drawing.

A horse with a gasmask was the photo that provoked this. I was imagining other animals so outfitted, and a fish was the craziest. Brown ink, colour pencil and whiteout.

I started messing about with line and wash. I really enjoyed the speed and looseness of working on this piece. In hindsight, I'm wondering if it would be worth working on a larger, more considered version as there is quite a lot of nice texture that is missing here. Pen & watercolour on watercolour paper (4x6").

Water color and goauche on paper

Water colour doodles

Heaven Sent Kisses

Based on https://pin.it/6o8NEgG

Something in colour for a change.

Butterfly Magic

Giraffe drawn on Daler Rowney artists paper with arteza professional coloured pencils. First practice with these pencils and they’re great to use.

depths of ruin

Kingfisher and the Lotus Pod ~ What colour is your kiss?

Oleander Hawk Moth

Hello All, Hope everyone is keeping well......I started another ' Lockdown' doodle this week. Working on Mixed Media paper with Pen & Ink and Aqua spectrum Noir pens. The Spectrum pens are really chunky and take a while to get used to handling , but they are very useful for colour blocking larger areas and the colours are intense. I've been using these all year now and love them. The Flamingo Garden Doodle , I turned into a repeat pattern for my collection of Printed Ladies accessories for my new website which I'm working hard on and hoping to Launch very soon. :-)

My painted interpretation of a large quilt my grandma made and stitched by hand decades ago using upcycled shirts. It’s gotten a lot of use and is showing the wear and tear that a well loved quilt will show on a long enough timeline. Still, I can’t bring myself to put it away for long. While a piece of me thinks I should keep it safe and preserved, my grandma is a practical woman that likes knowing something she made is getting good use. A sentiment I can appreciate. And so, maybe I can extend it’s life through watercolor.

This was Emma Thompson in one of my favourite films, Stranger Than Fiction - she is brilliant! I used just colouring pencils in this one to try out a soft, harmonious look, on the background of blue A4 card. I quite like the relationship between the foreground and background in this piece; had the background been white, I don't think it would have worked as well.