🎨 Open Studio | REPLAY | 'Turtle Love' (Sea Turtles)
Introducing the 'Studio Diaries' Discord Community
This months Open Studio is a:
(with a twist)
We have 17 images in total, however, there are choices.
You could take a slower approach, and only draw the minimum of 9 images.
Or, if you love the fun challenge of fast paced sketching, you could choose to draw all 17.
The theme is ‘Turtle Love’ (Sea Turtles)
Inspired by a trip to Dhanayana homeland, when I was living and teaching in Nhulunbuy, North East Arnhem Land.
(I must say, it was a long time ago - and my goodness, have things changed since I lived there).
This is the only photo (of mine) I could find of the green sea turtles.
Luckily, I have a Pinterest folder that has an abundance of beautiful images we can paint from.

We will be drawing from reference images of:
Area’s you may like to focus on:
Hand - eye coordination
Shape & Size Relationships
Values (light / dark)
Scribbling quickly and not being perfect
Materials you could use: (You can use whatever you have available)
Watercolour / Gouache paints
Coloured Pencil
Acrylic Markers
Watercolour Markers
Procreate
Mixed Media Paper
Warm Up Activities
There are 3 warm up drawings where you get to choose your technique -
Continuous Line
Blind Contour
3 Colours Only
Negative Space drawing
Non-Dominant Hand drawing
Examples of Warm up activities you could choose:





Watch the REPLAY:
I hope you enjoy watching the replay. I would love if you could please leave a like and a comment on Youtube as it really helps my channel find like-minded art friends who would like to join our creative community.
My Drawings from the Live ‘Open Studio’ session:

Support the Studio:
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Until next time,
‘Paint your peace & make magic’ my dear friend,
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Disclaimer
By participating in an Art Play Date (Art Club | Open Studio), you are agreeing to be recorded and to let me use any content created (i.e. Zoom Recording) to advertise on various social media channels (such as my Instagram, You tube, Pinterest & Facebook etc.).
Aw I’ll have to catch the replay of this one