I’ve decided to be brave and share my Duck with Balloon project too. This is my second attempt and I wanted to try coloring the duck swimming in water. The first time I colored it, she was standing on a little bit of grass. So a duck swimming in the pond was my challenge that I set out to accomplish. I think with the awkward leg pose that it lends well to swimming and looks natural in the water.

I also had another challenge for myself – which was the color the eyes differently than before. However, I think I rather failed in this quest and is the main reason why I haven’t posted it until now. I think if there were darker colors in the scenery and the highlights were just a bit different and brighter, then it would of worked out. But what do you think – is it rubbish?

This is the newest stamp in the shop, Girl Watering Strawberries. I thought this was such a fun image to color and there are so many possibilities with colors especially when starting with the watering can. My first thought was yellow or green. However, I spotted some strawberry paper in my stash so I decided to color it red. From there, I continued to pull in colors from the decorative paper until for my color choices. I can’t wait to color this one again!

Here’s another new stamp in the shop called Girl with Sunflowers. When I started drawing her, I didn’t really like how it was coming along. It wasn’t until after I colored her that I started to really like her. I think it was the blue plaid dress with the yellows that really brings it all together. I colored this one three different times so I could layer it. I didn’t enjoy cutting around the sunflowers but the effect made it worth it.

Three new stamps have been added to the shop this week and this is one of them. This is Girl Balancing and I thought she would be great in a scene out in the woods having an adventure. Of course, I can see her balancing on all sorts of things or just frolicking around with an active imagination. I colored this one mostly with Copic markers but then brought out the Artxx acrylic markers for the grasses and yellow flowers.