Inspiration: 16 Daytime skies and cloud tutorials

Inspiration: 16 Daytime skies and cloud tutorials

Here’s a collection of tutorials with skies, in all sorts of mediums! For some, the point of the video was not the sky, but I’ve included them to be some inspiration for your next art project. Click on any image to go to the blog post with video tutorial!

Also see night skies collected in THIS post.

Drawing a tree silhouette over dusk sky

Draw Valentine’s Day Heart-Shaped Clouds on 2 kinds of paper

Draw an epic sky in graphite (drawing + card)

Watercolor a multicolor graduated wash sky

Magical Bubbly Sky (no voiceover)

Copic coloring a hillside scene from up in the sky

Multicolor watercolor wash (inspired by illustrator Jon Klassen)

When to watercolor with Distress Ink vs Distress Oxide

Watercolor a tropical paradise

Watercolor a No Line Hedgehog Card

Coloring for Cards inside Vellum Envelopes

Interactive Ice Cream Truck Card

Simple Watercolor scene – Friendly Foxes

Watercolor a simple coastal scene card

No Line Copic Coloring Hack: Adding Graphite Pencil Accents

Watercolor a bird in a sunny garden

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Inspiration: 8 Bokeh Backgrounds

Inspiration: 8 Bokeh Backgrounds

It’s Bokeh week in my world, and I revisited my bokeh project tutorials! I created more than I thought I had already done.

Tap on any photo to go see the tutorial!

Two Yellow Roses (plus ICYMI collection of social media bokeh posts)

3 Mediums to Create Realistic Bokeh Effect

Watercolor Bokeh Cherry Blossoms

Copic Airbrush Bokeh

Bokeh floral background in watercolor pencil

How to color Cherry Blossoms with Copic bokeh background

Copic Rose Garden

24 Tags of Christmas 2015: Colored Pencil and Ink Rainbow Bokeh Tags

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Inspiration: 60 Tutorials using My Favorite Things Stamps

Inspiration: 60 Tutorials using My Favorite Things Stamps

This is a LOT of stamping and coloring tutorials, and I have a feeling I missed a bunch along the way! I think you might say that yes I do LOVE creating with My Favorite Things!

I created guest posts monthly for them for a few years, that’s part of it – and I’ll miss it! I decided at the end of 2021 that it was time for me to step back and allow other folks the opportunity to join them and inspire us all. Make sure when you create amazing and beautiful art that you tag them on social media so they know you’re awesome – and join in their challenges too! I’d love to see someone else fill a coloring-focused spot there!

Scroll through the posts below….tap on any photo to go to the post with video tutorials!

Skunks….and chipmunks?

24 Tags of Christmas 2021 #1: Traditional Color Combos (Copic)

Coloring Christmas cards with Ballpoint Pen?

How to create a Monochromatic Dramatic Scene

Go from cartoony to realistic in Copic coloring animals

Simple stamp masking: a tree branch

Inked Blue Poppy Card – Glass Pen

Color a Rainy Day in Paris with colored pencils

Crafty Hack: Mask Stamps for Complex Scenes

No Line Coloring of Critters – Prismacolor

Christmas card: Cats on a cold winter porch

Watercolor mixing for skin tones

Coloring the Human Rainbow – in colored pencil!

Merry wishes: Color cute animals in Albrecht Durer Watercolor Pencils

Create contrast with Copic markers

Flying Dragon Card – Pantone 2020 Color of the Year

How to Color a Sweet Shop Scene

Draw your own Copic glitter

Gamsol and powdered pencil aerial scene (easy)

Magical Friends – Colored Pencil Shading for dimension

Sunshine!

The Simplest of Coloring

Celebrate!

Sweet Little Penguin Tag

Easy Stamped Gift Bags

24 Tags of Christmas 2018: Diorama Dog Tags

Misty Painted Poppies

Coloring Spooky Shadows on Desert Storm Cardstock

Fluttering Rainbow Dragonflies

Color a Cowgirl Card: Draw your own wagon!

Watercolor a stage for a dramatic lion!

Super simple scene with Aussie Animals

Watercolor Bird Wreath

No-line motion with pull-tab sentiment

No Line coloring: fuzzy bunnies!

Pet Themed Shaker Card – Easy watercolor

Halloween card: Witch way is the candy?

Coloring a Seagull Dock Scene (Mine Mine Mine Mine Mine)

Make a card that’s a colorable gift

Watercolor a greeting card with pirates

Peekaboo Mama-Baby Giraffe Card

DOUBLE interactive ninja warrior card

Doodle Coloring with Animal Stamps

Create a Bokeh Copic Watercolor Garden

Fixing my impatient mistakes in watercolor

Paper Doll Castle Card

Interactive Puppy Slider Cards

Medicine Cabinet Card

Color an Ice Fishing Pond

Blending and Shading Copic Markers

How to Draw and Watercolor Rocks

Pack up a coloring kit for summer travel

Painting animal stamps with Brusho

Three Marker Challenge

How to paint with Brusho on diecuts

Cats by a fence, Albrecht Durer watercolor pencils

Adventure Calls (Colored Pencil)

Monsters in the Mist

Stamps are no longer available but the video is still tons of fun:

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Inspiration: 12 Gerda Steiner Designs tutorials

Inspiration: 12 Gerda Steiner Designs tutorials

All my GSD videos are collected here! Tap on any photo to go to that post with video tutorial!

Yoga mats for Santa:

No video, this was on social media:

Saturation Lesson: Carol Puppies (Copic marker)

Watercolor a Pine Tree for a holiday card

Speed Copic coloring: Puppy Kisses for Santa

Draw a crate for a little fuzzy pet! (no line coloring in colored pencil)

How to make peekaboo shaker window cards (watercolor pencils)

Clean-and-Simple Copic Porthole Cards

Copic Airbrushed CAS valentines *you could ink these too*

Safari Race card: how many animals fit in a land cruiser?

EASY Peekaboo Critter Card – Inktense pencils

Unicorn Surprise Party Card

Beam Me Up! Color an alien invasion

How I think through Copic color choices

More inspiration?

Throughout 2021, I’ve been posting weekly “collections” of my videos! They’re broken down into categories below, and each has pages and pages within it on any topic you’d like to go visit:

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Inspiration: 22 Slimline Card Tutorials

Inspiration: 22 Slimline Card Tutorials

Slimline-shaped cards have really taken off in recent years; I love them since they lend themselves to scenes and techniques that might fall flat on a smaller surface!

Click on any photo to go see that tutorial!

Are flourescent Copics really glow in the dark?

Watercolor a sunset forest scene (slimline card)

Slimline Magical Watercolor Gnome Card

The Happiest Copic Accident: Recovering art from a (gasp) liquid spill!

The Last Camel: Colored Pencil Nativity Card (Slimline)

Color a water-filled glass vase

Realistic Rainy Watercolor Card (slimline)

How to make layering stamps look realistic

Masking – WHILE embossing (plus watercoloring with distress inks)

When to watercolor with Distress Ink vs Distress Oxide

Make an elegant wax seal card embellishment

Interactive art studio slimline card (Zig Clean Color Pens)

Complex masking for Copic Airbrush (first time trying it!)

Multicolor watercolor wash (inspired by illustrator Jon Klassen)

Tips to help stop Copic marker bleeding (advanced cards but beginner tips!)

Is this the weirdest pencil sharpener ever? + shading cactus

Drawing a flower garden in pencil

How to create a Monochromatic Dramatic Scene

Art Impressions Slimline WC: Spooky Door (or winter door?)

How to change seasons of an image

Mineral paper, Alcohol Ink + easy mass-produced CAS Christmas cards

Brayered Stamped Watercolor on Mineral Paper

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Inspiration: Santa and his cohort! Elves and reindeer

Inspiration: Santa and his cohort! Elves and reindeer

Santa Claus is coming to town, or I assume so if you clicked to read this! Enclosed herein are a bunch of video tutorials coloring the jolly old elf, his helper elves, and the four-legged flying engine in front of his sleigh!

Click on any image to get to the tutorial.

Coloring Christmas cards with Ballpoint Pen?

Tips to help stop Copic marker bleeding (advanced cards but beginner tips!)

Colored Pencil Drawing: Santa’s View

Make a Retro Sleigh Ride Card – masking with inks!

2 easy masking techniques, 3 easy snowstorms

24 Tags of Christmas 2019: Santa’s face


Slimline Elf Card with glass ornaments

Christmas card: Santa flying in winter skies

Puppy Kisses for Santa (speed coloring)

Watercolor a Reindeer and Pine Tree for a holiday card

Reindeer in vests!

Color a Tropical Christmas Card

Santa in chimney: Airbrush a glowing sky

24 Tags of Christmas 2015: Embossing a Scene

24 Tags of Christmas 2015: Shading Elves in Copic Marker

Make a Storybook Christmas Card

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