Tag Archives: painting

Let’s talk about monkeys some more…

Posted on October 2, 2013 by pouringmyartout

I finished the art for the cover of the book… sort of… That is more or less what it will look like. I finished all the little details and clean up art. I might make the monkey a little bigger … Continue reading →

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Let’s talk about monkeys… Part 4…

Posted on September 27, 2013 by pouringmyartout

I have done some more work on the illustration for the cover of the children’s book. But have I gone too far? I have finished the rough outlines. I took your suggestions and instead of the dark ink outlines, I … Continue reading →

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Let’s talk about monkeys… Part 3…

Posted on September 27, 2013 by pouringmyartout

Or: Help me design the cover of my new children’s book ! I am still in the process of showing you step by step how I am developing the cover art for my new children’s book. In the last post, I shared … Continue reading →

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Let’s talk about monkeys… Part 2…

Posted on September 26, 2013 by pouringmyartout

This might be fun. I can talk about the children’s book and go back to the roots of this blog: My art. So I am going to share with you the steps I am going through to make the cover of … Continue reading →

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I might have a problem…

Posted on September 17, 2013 by pouringmyartout

Every time I start an art project, this happens to me. It takes over my whole life. It fills my head. I go to sleep thinking about it, and I wake up thinking about it. Sometimes I wake up in … Continue reading →

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About that children’s book…

Posted on September 13, 2013 by pouringmyartout

The artwork is taking a little longer to finish than I thought it would. The book is more about the art than the words, so I want to get it right. But I thought I might share one of the … Continue reading →

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I made a monkey!

Posted on August 26, 2013 by pouringmyartout

Well… I mean, I drew a monkey, and then painted it in with water-color paints, and then did the outlines with ink. And then I scanned it and put it is to Photoshop and zoomed in and cleaned up all the … Continue reading →

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Time for some pretty colors…

Posted on July 5, 2013 by pouringmyartout

I like to break out the watercolor paints and colored pencils when I go to my mom’s house. Her backyard is a great place to sit and paint… I have a small stack of pictures that I have been working … Continue reading →

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Back to where I once belonged…

Posted on April 6, 2013 by pouringmyartout

This blog started as a place to stick all my weird artwork. It has morphed into a bunch of other weird stuff. I am going back to my roots… for now… I still have a lot of stuff in the … Continue reading →

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Crazy rugs, watercolors, a drunk robin, a cute dog, and a nice sunset…

Posted on February 28, 2013 by pouringmyartout

I could have called this post “More random pictures of our trip to visit my mom in the Bay Area’… But that doesn’t have the same ring to it. For years my brothers and I have been teasing my mom about … Continue reading →

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