Even though I have decent handwriting, I’ve never been happy with my attempted calligraphy or lettering in Procreate. I do have a TON of fun turning fonts into artsy lettering looks! I have a whole class on using fonts to make all sorts of different looks but here’s some info to get you going on […]
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The tail end of 2024 has thrown me for a huge loop, not just the election but more importantly to my immediate family, my husband was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. We are fortunate enough to live near top cancer clinics and also that his cancer was caught very early. But it definitely put our lives
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I was happily running my little Montessori school in my home and I always loved making classroom materials. While thinking about making digital downloadable classroom materials other teachers could print and use, I discovered Procreate. I had an iPad, I knew nothing about Procreate, just having dabbled in it a bit. Later, I found classes
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Do you enjoy simple flowers that don’t need a lot of shading or other details that make it look realistic? A gouache look is the perfect choice! You can simply make flower-like shapes and add some other colors to give them a bit of style, even having multiple flower types on the same stem! Bear
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Draw some mandalas with me! I’m finishing off my year of weekly art prompts with a month of mandala prompts that have a spring equinox theme! You can find all of those details here! As part of my Mandala madness, I also did a live lesson in Peggy Dean’s Procreate Party to show exactly how
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I see so many people hoping and dreaming that Savage (the makers of Procreate) will implement a better way to keep our brushes organized within Procreate and it just….doesn’t…happen! Update after update, we are hopeful for that change. LOL. So, I thought I would go ahead and write about how I do it! Now, before
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Some of the first Procreate brushes that first went out to newsletter subscribers were these yummy “markers” that resemble Posca and Micron pens! They’re great for botanical line art, for adding details on top of digital watercolor paintings, and so much more. The Posca brush is painty and luscious. The Micron brush is so real
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October 2022 was a month full of mushrooms! I released a class all about mushrooms, I had a month-long mushroom art challenge, and I hosted a mushroom Draw This In Your Style when I hit 10K on Instagram! There are so many ways to draw mushrooms that I could have kept going much longer, I
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