1) A combination of colors that buzz: Playing with colors is one of my favorite things to do and it was hard to narrow it down to the one combination I liked the most. I first played with gouache and tried to pay attention to what I found in my scavenger hunt about color, which was that I was drawn to palettes that had neutrals with a pop of color.

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Later I played with colors on my iPad. I like to use the Adobe Capture app to record colors from photos that I like--pictures I take when I'm up and about or colors from fashion magazines or books that I love. I have the Capture app on my phone so whenever I’m waiting on line for something I resort to checking my photos for interesting photos and colors. Here are the palettes I recorded during April.

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I was inspired by the top 2 palettes in particular so I played with those colors to make this in procreate. I lightened the blue and love the contrast it creates with the neutrals and the mustard. I can feel the colors buzz in this square too!

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2) Draw 25 lines: I decided to take this opportunity to test all my pens and pencils in my sketchbooks--from the thinest to the thickest, in straight, wavy, and broken lines. I ended up doing dots and small triangles too--I couldn't help myself!

Workshop project: Trying to focus on process rather than results! - image 5 - student project

Workshop project: Trying to focus on process rather than results! - image 6 - student project

3) A garden of shapes: My iPad called me for this one. I am very drawn to abstracted botanical shapes so this was my chance to put this into practice. I see this piece as an aerial view of a garden of shapes, and again, some neutrals with a pop of color. For this piece I used mainly Adobe Draw and also Capture to kind of record the abstracted shapes and be able to "stamp" them in—mostly the flowery shapes, the small marks are from the app's brushes. This was a lot of fun to make, I wonder if I could turn this into a pattern in Illustrator--I may give it a try.

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4) My favorite fruit 12 different ways: I love all fruits but lemons are one of my favorites to draw. I like some of these drawings more than others. I used gouache, watercolor, marker, and pencil. I love to paint the texture inside the lemons and I love the little dots that convey the lemons in the first black and white piece. No secrets here, just plain old analog painting in my sketchbook and trying to imagine the lemons in many different ways.

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Workshop project: Trying to focus on process rather than results! - image 9 - student project

5) A bold bouquet and a soft bouquet:

I love painting flowers and wish I had more time to work on this prompt but the clock is ticking... For this prompt I started with the soft bouquet, using as a model some roses my husband gave me. I'm the kind of person who takes photos of flora all the time when I'm hiking or out on walks. But since I watched Dylan’s class on illustrating florals I’ve been taking photos of all the flowers in the bouquets I get as well. I love having my own photos for inspiration. Here's the source of inspiration for my bouquets:

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For the first, soft bouquet, I used Adobe Sketch. I feel that having no contour lines and using pastel colors makes this bouquet much softer than the second one (below). Something for me to keep exploring and working on—I like the shapes of this soft bouquet a lot but I'm not crazy about the colors (which for some reason look worse in my monitor screen than in my iPad).

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And here is the bold bouquet. I feel the the thick black lines and more saturated colors make this one quite bold. I took some artistic license and added the bow and some different funky shapes.

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My whimsy botanicals:

I really enjoyed the classes in this workshop and the projects were so fun to make. The first photo below shows my project from Peggy’s class. I left some of them without the contours and details because I realized I liked them just as they were!

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Some playful watercolor flowers--I love the combination of watercolor and inky doodles:

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And here are some single roses that I started drawing using some ideas in Dylan's class. I drew them in my iPad. I like the clean lines of this drawings.

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After taking this workshop I feel I am more attuned to what I'm attracted and I can also appreciate the importance on working on specific prompts. I feel I need to give myself more prompts to feel less ‘all over the place’... I am happy that I was able to complete the final project for this class because I tend to watch many Skillshare classes but don’t always complete the final project. Thank you, Dylan and Peggy for a super interesting and fun workshop that pushed me forward and made me think in different ways about what I'm doing.

Jaqui Falkenheim

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