Artistic Tuesday : Carving Pumpkins

Hi! Sorry I haven't blogged in a week or two. I've been really busy with birthdays, youth retreats, girl scout meetings, 4-H meetings, farm chores, and school. I haven't had much free time but I'm gonna try to blog more this week. So here's my Artistic Tuesday!

Tonight my family and I carved pumpkins. Each of us kids got our pumpkins ready by cutting off the tops and scraping out the pumpkin guts. Some of my younger siblings won't stick their hands in a pumpkin (and maybe I won't either) so it took a while to scrape them all out. I carved a really detailed vampire on mine. It took me a couple hours to finish while my siblings were done in about an hour. My sisters carved the headless horseman and a scaredy cat on their pumpkins. My younger brothers carved two happy smiley faces and a ghost. When we finished we lined all the pumpkins up on our porch and admired our works of art. Every year I make sure my pumpkin is really cool. Last year I carved a smiling cat face and the year before I carved a witch on her broom flying across the moon. I wish I had a picture but since I don't you'll just have to imagine how amazing our pumpkins looked. Tomorrow my mom and I are going to make pumpkin bars, pumpkin muffins, pumpkin pies, pumpkin seeds, and pumpkin pancakes. We'll be eating pumpkin for a while! Happy Halloween everybody!!!

Artistic Tuesday : Horse Zentangle

Hi everyone! I had a busy week, especially in my art classes! This week this is the project I worked on. We were supposed to learn about the art principles and design elements. I tried to use them all in this picture. I sketched lots of random, fun designs in circles. I wanted to use colors from my bedroom like lime green, purple, and pink. I drew some horses in a couple circles because they are my favorite animal. One of my favorite circles is the zebra circles in the middle. I am going to add this to my art collection hanging on my wall.

Artistic Tuesday : Salamander and Bug

As you can figure out from my other blogs, I love drawing animals, so this week I sketched a picture of a salamander climbing on a log to find a beetle hidden inside of it. When drawing this, I focused on detail and making the sketch look 3-D. I used shading and line to help me in making my sketch look 3 dimensional. I want to color  my sketch soon with colored pencils.

Artistic Tuesday : My Animals Sketch

This week I started sketching a horse laying on its side.I thought it would be cool to try and include most of my pets in my sketch. I drew my pony next to my dog then I drew a little black kitten trying to climb up onto the horse's back. I then sketched three of my calico kittens sitting in front of my pony. 

I really love the kittens in my picture. They are my favorite part!