This was one of my experimental pages where I used a glaze over the page first, waited for it to dry then used watercolor over the new textured page. When I placed the color down, it would spread over certain places.

Sunflower

First page of my second sketchbook done over the summer. Still working on this page, not sure if I should outline the sunflower using ink or illustrator.
Watercolor, oil pastels, pencil.

Sketching in Washington Sq. Park

Pen sketch at Washington Sq Park (while "my kids" were painting/talking, talking, talking) LOL.

Pen sketch at Washington Sq Park. Sketching at the park felt great! I have another sketch of the landscape from where I was sitting... I'll post it up soon... hope I don't mess it up with my scanner. : )

Paint tubes in class

Charcoal sketch of acrylic paint which belonged to one of my students I worked with this summer.
I was a TA (Teacher's Assistant) from the 3rd to the 14th of this month for Reade Bryan at Parsons, who taught the Junior Painting and Drawing class for high school students and who is also a Fine Artist. It was a great experience especially since it was my first time as a full time teacher's assistant and because I'd love to be an art teacher when I get out of college. It felt so good to go from table to table, easel to easel, giving tips/advice to a big group of thirteen and fourteen year olds. Over all, I'm going to continue to pursue my dream of being a teacher BUT I definitely know that the age group I spent those two weeks with is NOT the age group for me! LOL
-Nicole :)

More pigeons!

Sharpie. Pigeons at the park...

Sketches in traffic

Pencil, ink. Sketches going to Jersey.

NYC pigeons

Watercolor, oil pastels,

NYC pigeon within a pigeon

Watercolor, ink,

Watercolor doodle

doodling... with watercolor, ink

Street lamp

14 street, street lamp.
Acrylic, Watercolor, Oil pastels.

Panda sketches with watercolor

Panda sketches. It's funny to feel an urge to want to make the pandas look as real as I can, but the simple lines and colors might be enough. Why do I complicate my life! lol

Tree branches outline

Tree branches. I'll put some color later and post it up.

Hawk

Face

Just a sketch I did...I was bored. :)
watercolor, pen

Illus. Friday: Modify

Hey!
This is for this week's word, MODIFY. I read the definition of the word and was a bit taken back in terms of finding a drawing or illustration that matched the word. But then, while searching through my sketchbook, I found this painting/drawing... and it went through some serious modifying. Started with one color then it changed to another color and different drawings of things around me. So I just chose to draw my eyes and left my glasses out of it. Sort of scary and creepy.

-Nicole

Blue Eyes...

Ink, watercolor. I'm going to do some more of these...

-NP

Hand Studies

My hands and a strawberry I was eating :)

-Nicole

Mountains? Islands? Clouds? I don't know

Started with the idea of making waves with brown watercolor then it moved to buildings, clouds, water, lines...

-Nicole

Watercolor, pencil doodle

In the Clouds

This was the first drawing/sketch made for the first summer sketchbook I started. The idea just came to my head and there it is! I want to try to maybe make a series of portraits, some from life, some imagined, but I'm not sure what I would do for the background.

-Nicole