Spent the weekend rushing some bookmarks for work Xmas presents.

[GPV]

I'll laminate them tonight. They're overworked as heck, but they'll be in closed books so who cares?

[secondwind]

1. Oh, I love these! Can I have one?

Joking 🙃

[GPV]

2. Thank you!

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I’m still on the fence about using the flower one. Was supposed to be delicate and airy, but constant fiddling put an end to that. Lol Damned perfectionism!

[catrose]

3. So pretty

[GPV]

12. Thanks!

[Sherman A1]

4. Very nice

Well Done 👍

[GPV]

13. Thank you. :)

[littlemissmartypants]

5. I love them too! ❤

[GPV]

14. Thank you so much!

[Walleye]

6. Beautiful gifts

[GPV]

15. Thank you!

[Ziggysmom]

7. Those are lovely. I really like the toadstool and snail 😊🍄🍄🍄🐌🐌🐌

[GPV]

16. Thank you. I like that one too. It's a snapshot of a story, I think. I do wonder

what the beetle has to say? Lol

[Rhiannon12866]

8. Awwww! Beautiful and very clever! And I like the turtle!

[LiberalLoner]

9. Oh those are beautiful, you did great work on these, what terrific gifts they will make!

❤️❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍👏👏👏

[Native]

10. You're so talented!

[GPV]

17. Thank you so much! The nice thing is it's more learned skill than talent. Anyone who wants

to learn simple washes can do it. I see kids in art class all the time throwing color down with zero training and making lovely things.

[Trueblue Texan]

11. Very Pretty!

Did you copy the artwork to Photoshop so you can reproduce these? I'm taking a Photoshop class right now and I'm discovering so many possibilities that I can pursue in my ever-approaching (never-fast-enough) retirement. Oh HOW I wish I could draw like that! And watercolor like that! Lovely! Thank you for sharing!

[GPV]

18. I can't really draw. I'm too impatient to really sit still and work on it. I spend more

time playing w color. You should give it a try. It can be a lot of fun when it’s going well. Lol

I only have this one pic of them. I’m ok with them being originals, I think, especially since some were painted with specific recipients in mind.

[Trueblue Texan]

19. Happened to have bought watercolor set and paper yesterday!

But if I can't draw, I don't know how I'll get things to look like they are supposed to be. I'm sure my birds will come out looking like dinosaurs or cows, for example. But I've asked Santa for a contraption to help me capture a 3D image to paper with pencil. Maybe I'll get started on that after the new year. Any suggestions where I could learn some beginning principles to watercolor? Most stuff I look at is pretty advanced and I know almost nothing about visual art. It's only in the last couple of years I've had any interest in visual art, I'm embarrassed to say.

[GPV]

20. What brand paint and paper did you get? The lucida app is what I use to trace stuff that I

I want to come out right. YouTube is chock full of how to beginner watercolor lessons. Facebook, too. Start simple. Learn water control: paper, palette, brush, then get to know your pigments. Watercolorists are artists, physicists, and chemists. Not everything will mix well. As far as drawing, stay whimsical. You can’t get that wrong as a whimsical watercolor google search will show!

Editing to add I am the daughter of an art teacher and photographer and I refused to do art in case I was the bad one in the family. I came to it very late in life as well.

[bif]

21. Very nice!

Every one of them is a little gem!

[PatrickforB]

22. I love the turtle. My late MIL used to tell us that the turtle was the only

creature that has to stick its neck out to make any progress. Turtles are cool.