Prayer Rebel Zine or book if you prefer #prayerRebel

Do you pray with intention? Do you pray all the time, for everything? If yes, then you are a Prayer Rebel like me. If you are not familiar with praying or maybe feel unsure how to start. I have put into this Prayer zine some easy to understand prayers that you can start with. After a short time you will begin to change your prayers, making them fit your needs and in your words. This zine is meant to help you see how easy it is to pray and worship. The more you pray the closer you will be to our Father in heaven. Blessing and love, See you in heaven.

Making coloring Zines with Canva + KDP #makeazine #diy #smallbusiness

 

I enjoy writing and illustrating, but sometimes illustrating gets in the way of my beloved writing. And other times writing gets in the way of my beloved illustrating. Thankfully with all the wonderful Artists and creators out there. We have options to create with a variety of tools, many of which provide commercial use illustrations. Of course you cannot resell a creators art but you can change it and add it to your new creations and then you can indeed sell your new creations. These tools make it so easy to get to the fun of creating. And that is what I enjoy most.

Clear your mind with mindless art #mindlessart

If you just need to do something but don't know what do. Might I suggest you clear your mind with mindless art. It's and old ancient practice. No, No it's not really. ; ) but if I do it enough it could be for me by the time I'm 80! lol, I kid.

This was a fun activity while trying out my new creative brush tip markers. It took me just over two hours to complete but don't worry I speed it up so it can be a mindless watch to good music. This activity goes well with all my other posts on self-care and mindfulness in that you can learn sometimes the simplest things can calm your mind and ease your soul. Give it a try, and no you do not have to make suck a large piece or even be detailed. Just be mindless and color and create. But mostly have fun NOT THINKING.

This is what I learned today

Automatism. In art, automatism refers to creating art without conscious thought, accessing material from the unconscious mind as part of the creative process. 

         Happy mindlessness - Happy thoughts - Happy life

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Fill Your House with Love - activity

 Do you ever have tough days? A day when you feel the blahs? Maybe you can't put your finger on why you just feel off. I get it, I have those days too. We all do.

Maybe remembering all the support and love you have could help lift your spirit and remind you of what matters to you. There are many ways and things you can do to help bring you back to your center and get into your happy zone again. Here is just one simple and easy activity to help you do just that.

grab a paper and pencil and you can follow along with me as I work through the activity.

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The Perfect Children's Book

I made some color corrections and fixed some spelling error and voila!

I have the perfect Children's book ( in my opinion ;) I am loving how my book 

BUGS, INSECTS, & ANIMALS IN THE BACKYARD

I love, love, love how this book turned out. I am so inspired I am now changing the artwork in my other children's books. This style reminds me as I have said before, it reminds me of The Hungry Little Caterpillar by Eric Carle

                                         A much-loved Author and much-loved series of books.

 I would call this book a success if my book were loved by just one child. Creating and writing brings me so much joy. For all my books I use a digital process starting in the procreate app. on my iPad, then I move the files to my PC and use the free online program Krita to convert from RGB to CMYK, then I use Canva to add the words (it's just easier in Canva) I also make the front and back covers in Canva with my own art, and then I download the pdf files for KDP and once reviewed and approved it's ready for print. I order my Authors copy to proof and if perfect I post for sale. If errors, then I go back into the original files and fix the errors until I get it right.

#self-pulishing # Author # Illustrator # KDP Select # Author Central # write a children's book # children's picture books

Changing RGB Color Profile To CMYK for Print for a children's picture book

Here is a fun showing of how I change the RGB color profile of my children's book to the CMYK printable color profile

"Bugs, Insects, & Animals in The Backyard"

I am working on the page about bees and getting the yellow/gold to look write is a bit of an effort. Even after completing this video, I still had to do some color correcting and return for another round of adjusting. But that is how it goes and if you want your book to look perfect for your reader you will do many more until you are happy with how it looks. Each page of a colorful illustration needs to be scrutinized when going from digital to print. I will add that art applications have gotten much better than way back in 2006 when I first started writing and illustrating children's picture books, I used traditional watercolor and pastels on art paper and transferring that to digital form was impossible for me at that time, which is why those books are not in print...

After I am happy with the illustrations and have converted each page into a CMYK Jpeg file I import the pages into an online program called Canva just for the ease of the program which I am a paying member. I do not know of a free program, though Canva has a free option with limitations... I am not here to promote anything just sharing what works for me and hopefully inspire you along the way.

The program I use is called Krita and it is free open source, of course you can give a donation to the developers if you like. The program competes well with Adobe Photoshop

HAPPY CREATING!

#picturebookillustration, #childrensbooks, # RGB to CMYK, #self-publish, #krita, #canva, #digital art, #illustration, #KDP, #author, #illustrator, #artist

 

Drawing digitally is fun when the subject are Seals

 

Honing your art skills is fun when you choose to practice with cute, adorable seals! Here is a video showing how I draw and paint these cute seals. Some say painting, some say drawing or sketching, and some even say coloring. Whatever your choice, just keep practicing with whatever tools you prefer, and I can promise it will be fun. I use my iPad and the procreate app. really just for the ease, mobility, and lack of needing to wait for paint to dry. Being too impatient, I will eventually have time (I hope, when I retire) to await drying pain. But for now, I indulge in the digital space of an application that virtually mimics real paint be it watercolor, acrylic, oil or other artful substance. I hope you get the art bug and try your hand at creating and drawing, I think everyone needs an outlet to relax and shake off the stressors of life. You can do as you please in a digital art application, there is no fear of wasting precious paint or paper. Just delete and start again!

HAPPY CREATING!

Harbor Seal Animal Facts | Phoca vitulina - A-Z Animals (a-z-animals.com)

Grey Seal Pups - Shetland Nature Diary | Shetland.org

Afro-Australian Fur Seal – Pinniped

#seals #oceananimals #digitalart #digitalsketching #drawingseals