I enjoy giving myself little challenges when drawing… and learning more about my subjects.
Painting different colors of watercolor in my art journal helped add color to a blank page…
I then challenged myself to use mostly black pens – each pen a different variety – to draw Cactus; from the book I showed you in this post: Drawing Cactus and Succulents
According to Dictionary.com; Cactus (noun) and plural can be cacti, cactuses and cactus!
As a definition: Any numerous succulent plants of the family Cactaceae, of warm, arid regions, having fleshy, leafless, usually spiny stems and typically having solitary, showy flowers.
I never really thought about a “cactus” being a succulent plant!
I challenged myself to create these “succulents” with a variety of green pens:
Succulent (noun): A succulent plant as a sedum or cactus… and as (adjective): Of a plant – having fleshy or juicy tissues.
What I learned from this challenge for myself:
- Calligraphy pens are great to draw with…
- Going outside the color “square” is OK!
- I really do have eight green pens.
- Creating challenges makes drawing fun!
- I enjoyed learning the names of plants… must be a weird bird idea in there somewhere!
Do you give yourself challenges when you are creating? I’d love to hear what you do!
Cheers! 🙂
What a fun challenge, Jill. It’s good to step outside our own creative box. I just counted my green pens. I have 13! teehee.
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Lucky you! 😜 I’m green with envy…Hahaha! 🌵🌿💚
Enjoy your day, Sharon! 😍
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LOL!
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Fun and educational!
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Thanks Beverly! 😃 It was fun! 🌵🌵🌵
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what an fun idea to use different pens! I am sort of an art supply horder, I have so many different pens, but tend to use the same ones over and over…now I’m inspired to try using them all and just have fun! I love all your cacti Jill! They look great on the squares of color wash!
Jenna
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I love art supplies too, Jenna! 🎨😊 It was fun to try some different pens that I don’t normally use like the calligraphy ones. I saw this idea on Pinterest where someone painted different colors of squares and then drew different teapots (I think) on each square. They didn’t use different pens so I thought I’d change it up for myself. 😃
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Like them all an you certainly coloured them up, more cheerful. They look better than the real things. Great job.
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So glad you like them! 😃 I agree the color does make them more cheery! 🌈🌵 Enjoy your day!
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Lots of fun and lots of learning!! 👍😉💛
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Thanks Jodi! I liked how the watercolor gave me a little color on my page! Fun to experiment! 😍🌵
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What a great exercise and lots of fun! 😊💚🌵
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Thanks Patty Anne! 😃 A little something different to keep drawing fun! 🌵🎨👍
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I would never have thought of using the green that way…I like it! (K)
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Thanks Kerfe, it was a good challenge to keep my creative juices flowing! 💚🌵🌵
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Looks like it was fun, Jill! I have calligraphy pens also but haven’t experimented with them much. Nice cactuses! 😁
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Hi Patsy, I forget about using them to draw with and discovered how fun they are! I hope you give yours a try! 😍💗
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Yes, they are. I actually got them initially to do calligraphy with, but haven’t practiced that much lately. 🤣
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Can hardly wait for your bird idea that is definitely in there 😏
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Haha! Yes, I am sure I will find one! I didn’t know there was a Bunny Ears Cactus! ☺️
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