Digital Drawings

2011-02-28T13:45:00.000-08:00

You can download this version to color at my flickr site here http://www.flickr.com/photos/jacquedavis/5487007158/

Color your own Leprachaun Paper toy

2011-02-28T13:33:00.000-08:00

A color your own version is available here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jacquedavis/5487007158/

See my Flickr Page for my most recent updates

2010-01-05T05:48:00.000-08:00

Hi there,

I seem to be updating my Flickr Page more often than my blogs, so for my latest drawings please check out my Flickr site.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jacquedavis/

Happy St. Patrick's Day Paper Toy Leprechaun

2008-02-27T07:49:00.000-08:00

Here's a lucky little Leprechaun paper toy to print out and put together to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.

Happy Valentine's Day

2008-02-14T04:59:00.000-08:00

Here's a little Valentines Paper Toy I created to honor Valentines Day. For a larger version of the pattern go to my flickr site.

Joliet the Clown and dog Max, Paper Toy

2008-01-02T06:00:00.000-08:00

This is the first paper toy where I made both the template and the character. The template I drew in Xara Xtreme and the clown was drawn and colored in Painter 9.
Use the pattern to make your very own paper clown.

Joliet the Clown Paper toy template

2008-01-02T05:58:00.000-08:00

Fish guys drawn 11/1/07

2007-11-02T16:19:00.001-07:00

Street Art, drawn 11/2/07

2007-11-02T16:17:00.001-07:00

Pictures I drew in October

2007-10-31T09:48:00.000-07:00

Just gotta keep trying

2007-10-31T09:46:00.000-07:00

September 2007 Art

2007-09-26T16:12:00.001-07:00

More linens I made from the free patterns at Vintage Transfer Finds (see earlier post for web site)

2007-08-11T09:36:00.000-07:00

I Embroidered this potholder from one of the pictures I drew.

2007-08-11T09:34:00.000-07:00

New ATC picture puzzles - find 6 differences between the pictures

2007-08-10T11:58:00.001-07:00

4 of my new black and white series

2007-08-10T11:53:00.001-07:00

More Monsters

2007-07-29T09:10:00.001-07:00

Some monsters I made

2007-07-29T09:08:00.001-07:00

Found a great blog about vintage embroidery transfers

2007-07-21T06:29:00.001-07:00

I found the blog "Vintage Transfers" and it has wonderful old fashion tea towel transfers. I made these two from pictures of transfer patterns at the site.

2007-06-01T17:20:00.000-07:00

ATCs that I trade at ATCARD.com

2007-05-06T15:43:00.000-07:00

Art Trading Cards

2007-05-06T15:40:00.000-07:00

Art cards I made in April

2007-05-06T15:34:00.000-07:00

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

2006-12-24T07:41:00.000-08:00

Donut and A Smoke for Breakfast

2006-11-05T08:50:00.000-08:00

Popsicle Hill

2006-10-19T06:02:00.000-07:00

Kitchen Chair-tini Re-visited

2006-10-19T06:01:00.000-07:00

Cherry Pie

2006-10-18T07:06:00.000-07:00

Fruit

2006-10-18T06:50:00.000-07:00

Blue Razorback

2006-10-18T06:46:00.000-07:00

Street with Pots

2006-10-18T06:45:00.000-07:00

Chips

2006-10-18T06:44:00.000-07:00

Tower of Glasses

2006-10-18T06:43:00.001-07:00

Wine for One

2006-10-18T06:43:00.000-07:00

Closing Time

2006-10-18T06:42:00.000-07:00

Romulus and Remus

2006-10-18T06:41:00.000-07:00

Deal Me In

2006-10-18T06:39:00.000-07:00

Open up a Can of Whup Azz

2006-10-18T06:37:00.000-07:00

Flush

2006-10-18T06:36:00.000-07:00

Little Miss M.

2006-09-09T16:18:00.000-07:00

Snake and Ants

2006-09-09T16:17:00.001-07:00

Animal Stack

2006-09-09T16:17:00.000-07:00

Got My MoJo Working

2006-09-09T16:16:00.000-07:00

HI There!

2006-09-09T16:15:00.000-07:00

Persephone and Hades Coloring Page

2006-08-27T15:39:00.000-07:00

Print it out and Color Away

"LightBulB" for Inspire Me Thursday

2006-08-16T08:44:00.000-07:00

This week’s Inspire Me Thursday theme is “Open Challenge”: thinking about what inspires, what challenges, what motivates? So I just started drawing today and “lightbulb” is what I came up with. If I were artistically articulate I could explain how I got to the end point; why I made the background so significant; and why the focal point is climbing off of the page. Fortunately I haven’t a clue. I just drew it. If you scroll down you will see some other recent drawings. At least I do know what inspired them. The Donut Stack Spell was inspired by all the “journal art” that has words on top of the pictures. I’m not big into personal inner thoughts scrawled all over my pictures – but Spells, Incantations, stuff like that would be cool – well not the actual spell, that would be giving it away, but how about the spell tips, sort of like Alton Brown gives tips on how to make cooking recipe work well. And about the Grits picture, it was inspired by Southern Outsider Artists, WILLARD J. whose web site I came across yesterday. It is http://www.willardj.com/index.html. I don’t know him personally, but his work is soooo energetic. And so I drew the Grits picture as a tribute to the power of Southern Outsider Artists.

Grits

2006-08-16T08:22:00.000-07:00

Donut Stack Spells

2006-08-16T08:21:00.000-07:00

Diamond Back and Lollypop

2006-08-16T08:20:00.000-07:00

For I.T. Black and White Theme:

2006-08-05T14:59:00.000-07:00

Title: Mirror, Mirror. This black and white drawing was made in Painter IX using the Gouache Brush and a self-made BENDAY Dot fill. I had great fun drawing it. In the middle of working on it I got a phone call, that helped, because I stepped back while on the phone and noticed what areas I needed to work on.

For I.T. Music: The current St. Louis Blues

2006-08-02T06:29:00.000-07:00

For "Inspire Me Thursday" - 6 sided Keys

2006-07-16T08:22:00.000-07:00

Hex Key - You know, if it fits: Turn IT.

For an interesting "Body Part" I drew my husband's Brain

2006-07-02T09:23:00.000-07:00

Reflection for Inspire Me Thursday "good time"

2006-06-20T19:37:00.000-07:00

Title: Reflection, created in 30 minutes for Inspire Me Thursday's "In good time" using digital: gouache, watercolor, sponge, several blender brushes.

For Inspire Me Thursday's Show and Tell

2006-06-09T18:27:00.000-07:00

For Inspire Me Thursday’s “Show and Tell”: Title: If I made pottery!!. I had just seen some delightful black and white pottery at the Webster Groves Art and Air Artfair last weekend and I was thinking about how I love the energetic exciting whimzical patterns and motifs used by many pottery artists. SO, if I made pottery it would be whimzical too. This is a digital drawing made in Painter 9 using the gouache brushes and some of my own pattern fills. To make my own pattern fills in Painter 9 I start with a 100 x 100 pixel canvas, make the pattern on one layer only, select the layer and then choose capture pattern. I often make several patterns and use them as a pattern fill or on a pattern pen. If I put a black and white pattern on a gel layer, the white becomes transparent and I can add color on a layer beneath it. Below is another picture “ Oreo Overdose” made with a number of my own pattern fills created in Painter 9.

Oreo Overdose made with my own pattern fills in Painter 9

2006-06-09T18:18:00.000-07:00

Portrait of the time I got Conch'ed on the Head

2006-06-03T05:47:00.000-07:00

Functional Art for Inspire Me Thursday. - Altered Clock from the Dollar store.

2006-06-01T15:40:00.000-07:00

Words with Art for Inspire Me Thursday

2006-05-29T06:19:00.000-07:00

Of course it counts as a Vegetable

2006-05-26T15:19:00.000-07:00

May 26

2006-05-26T14:09:00.000-07:00

Sorry and Sore about a WHOLE LOT OF THINGS

2006-05-19T08:40:00.000-07:00

She SPOTTED them through the KEYHOLE

2006-04-17T20:19:00.000-07:00

She SPOTTED the perfect poison just for him!

2006-04-14T06:26:00.000-07:00

Spots and Dots

2006-04-14T06:24:00.000-07:00

For My little Monsters; Jeremy and Dominic. Digital art drawn in Painter 9

2006-03-24T07:04:00.000-08:00

Song for I.F: Clothesline Saga by Bob Dylan, on his basement tapes

2006-02-18T19:26:00.000-08:00

Kitchen Chair-tini

2006-02-03T13:40:00.000-08:00

I've been HOLIDAY baking. Try some of my Fruit Cake, oh come on trust me.

2005-12-23T16:58:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas to All

2005-12-14T08:47:00.000-08:00

Tasha's dogs

2005-12-02T16:33:00.000-08:00

The boys

2005-12-02T16:32:00.000-08:00

You can never have too many shoes

2005-12-02T16:31:00.000-08:00

Look I'm flying

2005-12-02T16:30:00.001-08:00

Stop blaming the dog

2005-12-02T16:30:00.000-08:00

Yum

2005-12-02T16:29:00.000-08:00

Take me home

2005-12-02T16:28:00.001-08:00

Lucky and Lenny

2005-12-02T16:28:00.000-08:00

Repost for I.F. Because this is this smallest thing I've drawn, except for the quarks from last week.

2005-11-25T07:36:00.000-08:00

For Illustration Friday: FREE QUARKS

2005-11-23T14:21:00.000-08:00

Wine for IF theme Night

2005-11-05T15:16:00.000-08:00

As suggested by Lorigrace, here's a glass of wine to go with the Pizza ( below). Also suggested by Lorigrace, the book Conversations in Paint by Charles Dunn. I bought it and think it's a great theory art book.

I.F. Theme: Night

2005-11-05T15:14:00.000-08:00

Scissors Digital Oils

2005-11-03T19:12:00.000-08:00

Last Piece of Pizza, Digital Oils using Painter 8

2005-11-03T17:03:00.000-08:00

Will someone get this @$#% candy out of my house?

2005-11-03T15:16:00.000-08:00

Still life of Reeses candy digital oil paints on a blank canvas. Painted from life for the first 15 minutes, then from memory.

Reeses Candy

2005-11-03T15:15:00.000-08:00

Broken

2005-11-01T15:24:00.000-08:00

In a Remote region of her brain

2005-10-21T14:32:00.000-07:00

Origami Swan by my Nephew Jay, 487 pieces

2005-10-21T04:25:00.000-07:00

Exercise in Texture

2005-10-19T06:24:00.000-07:00

Texture Practice: In her book “The Painter’s Workshop, Creative Composition and Design,” Pat Drews recommends an exercise to create an abstract. She suggests finding a small part of a photo that is interesting and using those shapes to start the painting. Below is my attempt at this exercise and also the reference photo taken by Julie, by 14 year old daughter.

Exercise from Pat Dews' book.

2005-10-19T06:21:00.000-07:00

Reference photo Taken by Julie, age 14

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Birds and Snakes

2005-10-17T15:53:00.000-07:00

My Coffee is Getting COLD

2005-10-16T09:03:00.000-07:00

2005-10-10T17:03:00.000-07:00

Science Project Time

2005-10-07T17:33:00.000-07:00

Illustration Friday: Lost

2005-09-28T09:39:00.000-07:00

Jazz: An American Quilt Digital Collage

Fresh Apples for I.F.

2005-09-25T07:02:00.000-07:00

This is my second picture for fresh, I painted it with the oil brushes in Painter 8. Read more below on how I use painter and scroll down for another fresh fruit picture. And by the time I got finished with this, the cut apple sitting on my computer desk was looking pretty brown, and not very fresh.

2005-09-25T06:55:00.000-07:00

Illustration Friday: FRESH

2005-09-23T08:56:00.000-07:00

Still Life of Fresh Fruit. THE PEACH AND PLUM
A few weeks ago I was having a drawing lull, nothing came easily. So I decided I needed a drastic change, instead of drawing the usual cartoony offerings from imagination, I would do some digital still life paintings from actual real to goodness objects. Since I was looking for some changes, I used digital brushes that I had little experience with. The paintings would be practice pieces to learn and work with some of the brushes I am not use to using. “The peach and plum” was one of these digital paintings.

In Corel Painter 8, I started with a blank 850x1100 canvas at 300 resolution. I grabbed a peach and plum out of my refrigerator and set them on my computer desk. I painted with the digital oil brushes, blending them with the grainy blenders, I finished the peach’s surface with a glazing sponge and the specks on the plum with the leaky pen. The pattern on the hand made pottery dish was broken up with the shatter tool. The shadows were painted on a gel layer. There are about 18 layers, less than I usually use, mostly because I painted over and over on the same layer and then used the blending tool on the same layer. I’m posting this for two reasons, as a reminder that a fun way to get unstuck is to do something absolutely different than usual, and to encourage artists that are limiting themselves to vector programs, that they really can get a very different look and have a huge amount of fun with Corel Painter. ( And if Painter is too pricey to pop for, Wacom’s cheapest tablet $99, comes bundled with Painter Essential, a fun but slightly vamped down version of Painter.) And no I don’t work for Corel, I just love to use Painter. Best Regards, Jacque Davis.