Tombow Markers | Visionary Art by Carmen Alicia

Hello my artsy friends. Did you survive Daylight Savings Time? Oh, it took me a week to get over it and I’m still taking my naps to catch up!

Arizona is the only state in the Union that doesn’t follow DSM. I guess it’s a rebel thing! LOL. We lived there for about five years and enjoyed it very much, but we couldn’t stand the heat. In the summer it was impossible to enjoy the outdoors because of 115 F heat, so we moved to Las Cruces, NM. Our family was in El Paso, TX, just a short hour away. Unfortunately, my dad, hubby and I all got Cancer and we decided to move back to El Paso to be closer to the family and closer to the hospital where we had our treatments.

Anyhow, we are having a blast here, the weather is pretty much temperate – we have hot summers and cold winters, but loooong Springs and Autumns. Love it here.

Now on to Life Book!

Week 11 – Roots & Ground, Wings & Light with Tamara Laporte

This week Tam gave us a lesson on mixing colors for dark skin girls.

I managed to use my Caran D’ Arche and Tombow artist’s markers to come up with a fairly dark skin girl. I wanted to make her a cool angel so I gave her a rainbow hair do. i really like how her eyes came out!

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Here are some details:

A closeup of her cute sunburned face and green eyes.

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For the background I used some napkins with birds and flowers and this birdie wanted to come out, so I outlined it. I also used some zentagle stamps to fill in all the open spaces.

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For these flowers I used a stencil and modeling paste and outlined them with a black pen. I also added white and black stars and gave her wings the same colors as her hair.

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Here are more stenciled/modeling paste flowers and more stamps. I mostly used the crayons and some acrylics for the background.

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I added more zentangle stamping on her dress and a heart to fill in the blank space here too.

Angel dress

Here you can see more zentangle stamps in between her wings.

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Now on to:

Week 12 – The Simple Things With Angela Kennedy

If you go to her page, she has some sweet-faced girls done very simply, but beautiful!

This was a bonus lesson to give us a chance to catch up with our projects and time to breathe in between.

All she used on this project was a stabilo pencil and a few pastel colors and a quote that has to do with grounding.

Here is my interpretation:

I didn’t have a good Stabilo pencil so I used the black Inktense watercolor Block, but it came out a little bit purple and brown, but I still like the effect. I used orange and red for the flowers, and two shades of green pastel pencils for the leaves and branches.

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Sorry about the light, I was fixing it up in my loft at night, hence, the sepia color. I found out I misspelled the quote, so I typed it using one of my favorite fonts and glued the paper to cover up the misspelling. I was thinking about my daughter, a masseuse, and how she really heals through her hands after grounding herself on her feet.

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Here’s a closeup of the flower in her hair. The trouble with pastels is that they come off easily on your hands, so I applied a fixative when I was done.

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