Fifi Flowers

9.18.2023

Reading Garden Daybed

LOVED the idea of reading in this setting I saw online… it was too much to complete for my 20 minute challenge but I could sketch it in 20 minutes… then it was time to paint in my (MOCA) sketchbook…

And the sketch…

The inspiration that had me wanting to recreate in my art challenge composition…

FUN interior design from Sister Parish Design AND now day 18 is completed!

9.17.2023

Grapes… Vineyards… I have written about two fictitious vineyards and their wines in my books… I made them up: Pinard Vineyard in the South of France and Beauclaire Vineyard in Temecula… I use the wines in all of my books when I mention wine… and for another art challenge, I sketched and colored grape vines with all colored pencil (ink and pencil when I first sketched it out) that may be growing at either of my made-up wineries…

Looking at the sketch and watercolor painting on the opposite page… I kept thinking there should be red wine in that bottle…

Soooo with two different shades of colored pencil, I did it… turned sparkling water into wine…

FUN FUN FUN…

Day 17 of 20 completed and day 16 transformed!

9.16.2023

Blue Sketchbook on Table

I made it! A little late but within the day… under the midnight wire… lol… another 20 minute art challenge… it is kind of funky… maybe not logical… bad perspective… it was a doodle: striped bowl with oranges… ohhh… maybe a glass bottle but not much room… blue sketchbook… colored pencil… pattern on the table… doodles don’t always have to make sense…

It was important to finish the challenge… Day 16 of 20 complete!

9.15.2023

ART Banner…

I’ve been thinking about making a NEW BANNER for this blog… and I realized that I never share about the current one…

Art collages that make up my banner...

I was wondering if I should do a NEW ART ONLY ONE or should I incorporate a couple of my book covers in the mix... because they are BOTH CREATIVE AVENUES that are part of me... though I am not currently working on a NOVEL... however, I have been trying to figure HOW to maybe turn one of my ALMOST finished CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE books into a weekly or monthly series...

UNCERTAIN Fifi Flowers is who I am right now... LOL... my brain working on OVERLOAD!

Sketchbook: Coffee Tray

Today I started with my 20 minute art challenge in my (MOCA) sketchbook… day 15 of 20 completed early…

Sketchbook and Journaling (I made it 50 of 365 days) is FUN and these paintings are ones I will keep and pass on to my kids and their kids… AND I can make some of them into ART PRINTS for my ART SHOP via my larger JOURNAL (I call it) sketchbook… My MOCA sketchbook is not actually made for watercolor painting and the pages are a bit wrinkled BUT I love it and will continue to create in it BECAUSE it brought me back to the ART WORLD!!! HAPPINESS… soooo recently I purchased TRUE watercolor paper sketchbooks to add to my collection…

The NEW ONES are smaller and will enable me to take them along with me on Fifi and Francie Adventures… I have NEVER really sat somewhere other than inside or outside of my home to create art—or I should say NOT since my art school days—and I think I would like to give it a try. Not sure hubby will last very long someplace for me to finish a paint BUT a SMALL sketch he could go along with… LOL!

They really are tiny—you can see the difference in the photo showing all of my sketchbooks above. The smallest (beige) is 3.5” x 5.5” and the square (blue) one is 5.5” x 5.5” and the portrait oriented (black) is 4.1” x 5.8” and I can’t wait to try each one… I’m thinking they will be mostly used on both pages opened since they are so small. The smallest could be one page composites because the long wide format could be a challenge or maybe not, but I have never painted a long landscape shaped painting… first time of everything… LOL

STAY TUNED!!!

9.14.2023

Sketchbook: 20 Minute Butterfly Wing

My hubby found a beautiful butterfly wing in our garden and I photographed both sides of it… perfect 20 minute challenge… happy how they turned out but I should have maybe traced the outline of the wings so they would match perfectly BUT I think I did okay…

Here is the wing… both sides… sooooo pretty… nature is AMAZING!!!

Day 14 of 20 complete!

Port Wine Pottery Still Life

I was going to paint in my journal today but the spacing wasn’t right soooo back to my sketchbook… another art challenge and this one with a cute port wine pottery dispenser… I was going to call it a jug but it’s not…lol… A little oops on spacing—should have started lower on the pages—shortened the potted flower and the dispenser BUT I got everything in…

Speaking of fitting things in… I was going to film everything from sketch to color application. Then I realized everything wasn’t in the camera screen… soooo I have to films for you…

Here is the sketch portion—

Andddd here is the colorization—because I used colored pencil, watercolor pencil, ink and watercolor paint—portion…

Lastly, the photo prompt…

MORE painting to do… I will be back to share my 20 minute painting… see you then!

9.13.2023

Ooh la la Little Black Dress Fashion Studio

I’m reading a book that is one little black dress worn by nine different people (not the same dress but the same design)… anyway, the book mentioned a movie Sabrina 1954—that I LOVE LOVE LOVE—and who doesn’t love icon Audrey Hepburn… sooooo, inspiration kicked in and welllll… I had to create a Paris studio for the “little black dress” and though it was originally designed by the FABULOUS California Girl costume designer Edith Head… Audrey Hepburn went to Paris to meet with Givenchy about a collaboration for the Sabrina film… I don’t know all of the details but maybe Edith would love a Paris fashion studio like ME…