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November morning practices: Birds I want to carry

November morning practices: Birds
I want to carry the Inktober spirit to November, therefore I picked birds as a topic to draw 30 days continuously.

It wasn’t as easy this time around. The beginning was of course not much struggle. But the last few days I was losing interest and also got sick. I was pushing through at the end.

Overall, I enjoyed this challenge I gave myself. I have tried different approaches to draw birds and learned quite a bit from them.🥰🥰🥰

November morning practices: Birds Day 24: Common K

November morning practices: Birds
Day 24: Common Kingfisher
Day 25: Northern Lapwing
Day 26: Lankan Junglefowl
Day 27: Indian Runner Duck
Day 28: American Pekin
Day 29: Golden Pheasant
Day 30: Northern Saw-whet Owl

November morning practices: Birds Day 18: Grey Her

November morning practices: Birds
Day 18: Grey Heron
Day 19: Eastern Cattle Egret
Day 20: Oriental Magpie-robin
Day 21: Painted Bunting
Day 22: Egyptian Goose
Day 23: Pink-necked Green Pigeon

Sketching with @uskmannheim and @staatsphilharmoni

Sketching with @uskmannheim and @staatsphilharmonie

November urban sketching is with the rehearsal of @staatsphilharmonie

Such an amazing and immersive experience to sketch with wonderful live music. I had to put down my pen many times to listen and enjoy their music. My body swayed along with the music while I was sketching.

Thank you very much, @uskmannheim and @staatsphilharmonie !!!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Some of the sketches will be exhibited at Rosengarten Mannheim, along with the Music Concert this Saturday!

Oil pastel play time

Oil pastel play time

Me and my husband went to see the abstraction exhi

Me and my husband went to see the abstraction exhibition in @wilhelmhackmuseum yesterday. We were both inspired and excited. There is a workstation for everyone to try making abstraction art. We had a great time playing with shapes and geometry there!🥰

November morning practices: Birds Day 14: Taiwan Y

November morning practices: Birds
Day 14: Taiwan Yellow Tit
Day 15: Eurasian Tree Sparrow
Day 16: Lesser Violetear
Day 17: Kākāpō

Sketching with @uskkarlsruhe for the first time🥳🥳🥳
The location is so beautiful. Everyone was so focus and quiet, which made this experience really enjoyable for me! ( I love quiet place!)

Thank you very much, @uskkarlsruhe for the warm welcome. Feeling sorry for leaving early 🙈, I was really hungry.😂😂😂

Thank you, Monika , Sabine @blauerreiter8 and Ute @ute.moerchen for coming together!🙏🏻🥰💖

November morning practices: Birds Day 11: Great Sp

November morning practices: Birds
Day 11: Great Spotted Woodpecker
Day 12: Common Moorhen
Day 13: Javan Kingfisher

Master study: Henri Manguin 1: The pine forest in

Master study: Henri Manguin
1: The pine forest in Cavalière 1906, with gouache
2: Die Allee 1905, with Kissho Gansai

November morning practices: Birds Day 7: Barn Swal

November morning practices: Birds
Day 7: Barn Swallow
Day 8: Greater Flamingo
Day 9: Cormorant
Day 10: Grey Crowned Crane

Quick play time at night, I had so much fun!😆

Quick play time at night, I had so much fun!😆

3-10mins each, some using non-dominant hand, some using dominant hand

I have been eyeing this “Art creation by Talens” sketchbook for quite some time. The cover is so beautiful and the paper inside is white instead of cream color!

There were not many reviews on the white paper version. Those I have found are pretty diverse, some said they are the same, some said they are totally different. I think I can only try for myself.

For ink, I think they are pretty similar. I feel like the white paper can take a little bit more ink than the cream one, just slightly. But for watercolor, sadly colors became so dull and greyish.🥹🥹🥹 For Gouache, it is as usual, perform nicely on different surfaces. The dye-based Koh-i-Noor Anilinky brilliant watercolor has no problem at all.

The white paper doesn’t take as much water as the cream one. First light wash is ok, color turns dull after drying. If your brush touches it the second time, it starts to show signs of peeling. And this is just color swatches, I haven’t paint yet.

Let’s see how it goes when I start to paint in the future. Maybe it will be better(or not😂😂😂).

Some older daily sketches from Jan-Apr 2024 I sto

Some older daily sketches from Jan-Apr 2024

I stopped using the Hobonichi at some point. I moved on to use normal sketchbook after I developed a habit of daily sketching.

November morning practice: birds Day4: Great hornb

November morning practice: birds
Day4: Great hornbill
Day5: Mallard
Day6: Indian peafowl

I documented how Homo sapiens gather fruits in the

I documented how Homo sapiens gather fruits in the wild today.🤣🤣🤣 Some of them used tools and some of them just climbed up the tree.

Those Kaki trees are beautiful! Apparently my raccoon side of me is suppressed by the arty side of me. I draw them instead of trying to eat them.🤣🤣🤣

November morning practice: Birds Day 1: Black crow

November morning practice: Birds
Day 1: Black crowned night heron
Day 2: Black-faced spoonbill
Day 3: Takahe
Carry on with the inktober spirit, I am trying to focus on birds this month.
I started the first day on a cheap sketchbook, but I forgot the paper inside doesn’t take watercolor at all. So I went back to a better sketchbook. Therefore I had 2 pages for day 1!🙈🙈🙈

Such an amazing zoo!!! The animals are very frien

Such an amazing zoo!!!
The animals are very friendly!
Finally, I met real raccoons for the first time!!!🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

From Nov 2023 - Oct 2024 It has been a year since

From Nov 2023 - Oct 2024

It has been a year since I started urban sketching. It has been an eye-opening journey. From urban sketching, I discovered nature journaling and observational drawing. I fall in love with art again! I develop a habit of sketching or drawing everyday.

I used to be strict about those so-called “rules” of urban sketching, up to a point that it stresses me out. Then I realised all those labels shouldn’t chained me down. They showed me different perspectives to look at this world and different approaches to express ourselves through art. At some point I let go of all those labels and “rules”, and just “ART”. I just draw or paint whatever, wherever and however I want. But urban sketching did ease my way into doing art again.

I have learned a lot in a year. I attempted something new in every drawing/sketch. Also, different art mediums (ink, watercolor, gansai, acrylic, flashe paint, gouache, wax pastel, oil pastel, paint stick, markers, color pencils, pencils). By putting lines and paints on the paper physically, I discovered what I like and enjoy doing. Things I enjoy looking at doesn’t mean I enjoy drawing them myself. I don’t have the fear of “blank paper” anymore. I have learned by doing that, “it is just a piece of paper, you can always grab a new piece of paper.”. I just move on when I make an “ugly” drawing, and start a new one. I am not worried about having “my own style“ at this moment. I am still learning and absorbing eagerly.

From my own experience, I truly believe drawing is a skill one can learn, not a gift. You don’t need any “talent” to start. As I don’t believe in talent, I believe in natural tendencies(For example, you are more sensitive to sound, you are more observational, you enjoy movement, you enjoy being alone, etc.) and hard work. And of course, if these tendencies get nurtured and developed, accompanied with hard work (many trials and errors) you would see amazing results. But our society tends to conclude everything with one word and ignore all efforts behind the scenes.

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WildTober 2024 An InkTober challenge for nature jo

WildTober 2024
An InkTober challenge for nature journalers by @wildwonderfoundation

This is my first InkTober challenge. 🙏🏻
It is done!!! I made it!! What a journey!!!🥳🥳🥳
I have gained more confidence in my inking skills. I have uesd ballpoint pen, brush pen, fountain pen, fineliner, watercolor ink in waterbrush pen, highlighter in this challenge. It was done on a Talens art creation sketchbook.

I usually spent around 20-30mins on each drawing before my breakfast everyday. During this challenge, I enjoy starting my day with creativity and practice. Therefore, I want to carry on this morning practice, probably on different subjects I am interested in at that moment.

#wildtober #inktober

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