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Today's Art, Merry Christmas, 2022

 Merry Christmas!

Procreate Art, from following  James Julier Art Tutorials

Wow, where does the time go? HOW is it already Christmas day?  I thought I started early enough with my Christmas prep, but here were are, Christmas Day and I still have ONE more thing to finish.  Not gonna happen, lol.  Oh well; I did enough.

I am so behind on posting here because I've been painting and drawing and crocheting and diamond painting up a storm.    I made loads of decorations and gifts and had a lovely time doing it.

There were so many Christmas art tutorials that I wanted to follow, but I only had time to do this one, today, lol.  I also made some hand painted ornaments and can blog about them later this week after the last gift is opened.

We had  blizzard here, for the past two and a half days and we've gotten so much fresh snow that it took my poor Dad 3 hours to clear out the driveway today, and it was cleared yesterday.  My Mom even helped for an hour. I feel so bad that I can't help with that sort of thing but I've never been able to do that because of my severe asthma.  Every year I offer to pay to have someone come do snow removal and every year they just get mad and say no.   One year I did hire someone anyway, as a Christmas present and that did not go over well and the poor guy refunded my money after trying to do the driveway for 2 weeks.  My parents either beat him to it or they stood outside criticizing him, lol.  It was funny, but sad too.

Anyway, we finally opened our stockings and Smokey (my parrot) opened her gifts.  My Dad  is on the phone with our family in Austria right now, so when he's done we'll open our gifts and I'll be back with photos.  It will only be the 3 of us for dinner, and possibly our neighbor, if she can't get to her brother's house. THe roads are bad.  Our cousin was supposed to come to dinner but she can't get out of her driveway.  So much snow, and it's still snowing!  

Anyway, wishing you a very Merry Christmas!

Today's Digital Art: Poppy Field with Procreate on the Ipad

 Procreate is still my favorite way to make art

Poppy Field on Ipad #JamesJulierArtTutorials

I am so happy with the way this poppy field digital painting came out!  James Julier makes the most wonderful tutorials for realistic landscapes.  I can only follow the tutorials if I don't have a headache, and thankfully today I woke up headache free so was able to jump right in.  

As always, these paintings look so much better on my Ipad than they do on FB or Instagram or even my computer.  

If you want to give this tutorial a try, you can find it: here

Procreate Art, Canada Day Flag with Deer

 

Today's art, procreate

Happy Canada Day!

I did this art on my Ipad, with procreate, following a tutorial by Hui Art Studio.  I changed it up a bit, and added a snout and tail to my deer, a shadow, and I used the brushes that came with procreate.  

Prayers for Ukraine

 

Drawn with Procreate

War in Europe...how did this happen?

My heart is just breaking for the people in Ukraine.  It just doesn't seem real that this type of war could be happening in 2022.

Biden in the US was warning Ukraine and the world about this for about a month but nobody seemed to take him seriously.

I'm Canadian, and I just don't understand the world anymore.  I see videos and pictures of the Ukraine people trying to find shelter in subways, with their children and pets, and it doesn't seem real.

I'm blessed and lucky that I have the luxury to be in disbelief while they fight for their lives. I wish their was some way I could help.  The only thing I can think of is to pray.  

I hope God will protect them and keep them safe.  

Is it wrong to pray for someone to just take Putin out?  

Bless the courageous people of Ukraine, who are fighting against a much bigger force, armed with better tools of war.  

Putin is holding the world hostage right now as he has Nuclear Weapons and has hinted that he will use them if the West intervenes.  But how can the West not intervene?  

Is this the beginning of WW3?  

I don't know.  

Stay safe, everyone. 

Happy New Year 2022

Happy New Year!

Can you believe it's 2022 already?  I can't; time goes by so quickly it seems. 

I wish you all good health and happiness in the year ahead. Stay safe!

Here is a little art that I did on Procreate/Ipad to ring in the New Year.  

Happy New Year 2022

 

Snowy Tree with Deer, Procreate Art

 Procreate Art, Snowy Scene with Deer

Procreate Snowy Tree with Deer, #James Julier Art Tutorials

I followed a tutorial by James Julier on Youtube to create this pretty snowy scene.  I added the Christmas lights and the deer (they were not a part of the tutorial).

If you want to try this, you can find the tutorial here: Snowy Tree Winter

Today's Procreate Art, an Original by me, lol: Christmas Squirrel on an Icy Pond

 Christmas Squirrel on an Icy Pond

Christmas Squirrel on an Icy Pond, digital art on Procreate by me, Kathy Schopp

I've been doing a lot of Procreate tutorials on youtube since mid September, and I decided to try something on my own today, using techniques I've learned.

I'm really happy with the way this came out.   I experimented with a lot of different brushes.  I did the trees with the fine nozzle spraypaint brush.  I used different texture brushes for the texture, and I used the Sable brush for the squirrels fur.  These brushes all came with procreate.  I only drew the tree once, and cut and pasted and warped and resized them, and also flipped them around so they were facing different directions. 

I need to figure out how to crop the photo because I'd like to crop out some of the sky.  When I was drawing I made the canvas bigger and then forgot the top existed, lol.  I added clouds but would like to cut it out and make the painting end just above the tree line.

I used this photo of a squirrel for reference.  I had it open on my computer to look at while I drew on my Ipad.  I know there's a way to use reference photos on the ipad but I forgot how, lol.

I greatly simplified the squirrel by drawing shapes...mostly ovals, for the head, body, and legs. I wanted mine standing up straighter than the image above so I just straightened his little back. I could have shaded the squirrel more but I didn't want it too realistic looking.  I'm very happy with the way it turned out.  I hope you like it too, and that it makes you smile.

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Happy Thanksgiving! Today's Art is Thanksgiving Themed.

Procreate Art, from tutorial by Tatyworks

 Thanks to Tatiana from Tatyworks for this fun tutorial!  Today is Thanksgiving here in Canada so this is perfect. 

I changed the tutorial a small bit...the only changes I made were to make the border red instead of white, and to add the words Happy Thanksgiving. I need to learn how to do calligraphy as my penmanship is awful, lol.

If you want to try this cool tutorial, you can find it on Youtube, here: Pumpkin & Apples by Tatyworks