Lion’s Head Drawing

Lion's Head Drawing, 2024
Hello Friends,

Well, here we are in November coming up to Thanksgiving. Wow! Fall is definitely here with lots of rain and (burrrr!) colder weather. I finally put my long quilted coat on the other day with my warm fuzzy boots. I am so looking forward to sharing time with my family and friends during the holidays. Pumpkin pie and heavy cream is the best!!

I have been on a new learning curve with a new medium. I ordered a set of 20 pan pastels from Amazon along with the “sofft” tools (yes, that’s how they spell it). They are plastic handled spatulas with different shaped heads with little soft sponge-like pieces that fit onto the head of each tool.  There are also different sizes of small and medium sponges that can be used independently for larger areas of your drawing.  The pastels come in beautiful brilliant colors along with a special plastic carrier for each pan pastel color. I am so excited to try these pan pastels mixed with my colored pencils. In addition, I am learning how to create reels that I can post on my Facebook to show you how I create my drawings.

Here is a new drawing of a lion’s head that I recently finished. I found and fell in love with the photo and just had to draw this magnificent creature.  The original drawing is 15″ X 11″.  This Image Gallery shows some of the steps taken in the drawing process. I used Artistico Watercolor extra white 100% cotton hot press satine paper for my drawing.

My next drawing will be on a reel on Facebook. Please come and join me.

Happy Thanksgiving,

Terrie D

Final Jaguar Drawing and Hawaii Trip

Hello All!

Jaguar final imageHere is the final Jaguar drawing. He was a real challenge but I kept working on him even when I thought I was done at one point. One of the skill improvements in drawing is pushing yourself past your comfort zone and then realizing how much better your drawing can actually turn out.

I am still working with our publisher on my children’s coloring and activity book. Since it is 120 pages (!!) big, about double my other two coloring books, it is taking a little more time to finalize everything before publication. Looking at a couple of weeks before going public.

My husband and business partner, Mark, and I just spent 10 days in Kona, Hawaii. It was our first time visiting Hawaii. We stayed with a couple who are High School friends who moved there three years ago. What a stunning Island! They took us all over the island and I took lots of pictures adding them to my resources for future drawings. Going in August was facing 85 degrees heat and 85+ humidity. I do love the Pacific Northwest’s weather!!  Aloha.

Terrie D

Jaguar Drawing in Progress

Welcome all of you Big Cat Lovers.

Leopard drawing progressI am now working on to my second large cat drawing, a beautiful Jaguar. When it is completed I will add him to our Redbubble store. This is a fascinating challenge drawing six large cats in order to improve my skills as an artist.  As each drawing progresses I experience a feeling as if we are facing each other in real life. It can be a little bit unsettling looking into the eyes of these beauties as they stare back at you!

This is the reason I love drawing, when you can “get inside” of your drawing and create something that moves you in some way. I hope those who see my artwork can experience something that moves in them.

Must get back to drawing  . . . !

Blessings, Terrie D

Lion Drawing in Progress

Hello Wonderful Followers!

Lion Drawing progressionWell, I am finally off to publication with my new children’s coloring book Wild Things for Kids. This book will be over 100 pages and full of fun drawings and activities for kids of all ages. It will be available on Amazon over the next couple of weeks.

I am taking a sabbatical from creating coloring books for a couple of months and am focusing on an aggressive project of drawing large cats of the world. This will include drawings of tigers, lions, leopards and panthers.

I am posting the beginning of a lion drawing currently in progression. My husband said I always seem to start my drawings with the subject’s eyes. I explained to him the reason for this is if I can bring my subject to life through their eyes then it helps me bring life to the drawing. If there is no life in the eyes there is no life in the artwork and I cannot complete the drawing.

I would love for you to follow me in this challenging project and see how it turns out. The drawings will be available in prints at our Redbubble store soon. 

Happy summer days!

Terrie D.