A Free Coloring Page for You!

 A couple of years ago, I participated in a collaborative art  project called "Doodles for Donation", where artists were invited to create doodles which were later published as coloring books to be distributed for senior retirement homes as a way to relieve their stress. 

I am glad to say that this  doodle below  was accepted as a part of their jury process. 

I am sharing this coloring page here for you to print it out and color it any which way you like so that it can relieve your stress as well. 

Title: Gossip Time!

I am  someone who loves birds and also being an active birder , I decided to create this doodle. I imagined that the birds are meeting other birds on a hot summer day and are enjoying   and  gossiping on  the events of their day and that's the inspiration for this doodle.   

You have my permission to color this page. But please don't sell the coloring page that I have created. 

I would love to see your creations and please share your art with me on Instagram using the hashtag #coloringcreativejayu

Have a fun time coloring!

Feliz Cumpleanos !!

Feliz Cumpleanos to Creative Jayu's Blog as we are celebrating its 7th birthday today.  I created this animated gif for this occasion. This is done using an iPad only.

Title: Feliz Cumpleanos
Medium: iPad Art

After that I got hooked and created more animated GIFs. So here are some more done using the iPad.

Title: Minions !

Below animated GIFs are my very first animated GIFs

Title: Its a Beautiful Day!

Title: Hello there!

This painting below is for the Feb 2017 Facebook group Art Challenge. This is at Lisa's FB group at Lachri Fine Art. The theme for this month's challenge is " Things in Trees." I used my own reference picture for this challenge.

Here is my entry for this month's art challenge

Title: Two is Company
Medium: iPad Art

Update: I thank Lisa for featuring my iPad art seen  above  ( Two is Company) for the Feb 2017 art challenge. Here is the video link Feb 2017 Art Challenge 


 The painting below is for Colored Pencil Magazine's monthly challenge. This challenge is for Nov 2016. Photo reference credit -- Sally Robertson ( Copyright released). Thank you for the picture.

Title: House Guests!
Medium: Colored Pencils on Canson's Acid Free Sketch paper

The painting below is for Colored Pencil Magazine's monthly challenge. This challenge is for Sept 2016. Photo reference credit -- Sally Robertson ( Copyright released). Thank you for the picture.

Title: Needle and Thread
Medium: Colored pencils on Canson's Acid Free Sketch paper, Ball point pen for numbers

The painting below is for Colored Pencil Magazine's monthly challenge. This challenge is for Oct 2016. Photo reference credit -- Sally Robertson ( Copyright released). Thank you for the picture.

Title: Indian Corn
Medium: Colored Pencils on Canson's Acid Free Sketch paper

I created this  quick doodle ( see below) for the BBC ( Blue Blotch  Challenge ) challenge that takes place at the " The Mobile Artist Collective"  Facebook group. This is done using an iPad.

Title: Fishing Anyone?
Medium: iPad Art
Apps used: Procreate

I took part in Kathryn Costa's Mandalafest 2016. Here are some of my mandalas I created during the class.

Title: For Mandalafest 2016
Medium: Colored pencils

Title: Mandalafest 2016
Medium: Colored digitally using the iPad

The painting below is inspired from the book  -- Enchanted Fairies.

Title: Enchanted Fairies
Medium: Colored Pencils only

For Lisa's FB group challenge for March 2017 the theme is Water or something to do with it. Here is my entry

Title: Waterlily
Medium: iPad Art
Apps used: Paper by 53 and Procreate

Update: I would like to thank Lisa from Lachri Fine Art for featuring my Waterlily painting. Here is the video link for you to watch--  March 2017 Art Challenge


Painting below is entry for Color Pencil Magazine monthly challenge for Feb 2017. Thanks to Sally Robertson for reference picture ( Copyright Released)

Title: Feathers and Butterflies
Medium: Kohinoor Woodless Color Pencils and Butterfly Stickers on an acid free drawing paper.

I thank you all for hopping onto my blog. See you soon with another blog post.

" Keep your face to the Sunshine and you cannot see the Shadows." 

A celebration of Animals !

For the months of October 2016 and November 2016 my paintings will be up at " For Other Living Things"  located at 1261 S Mary Avenue,Sunnyvale,CA. I share this space with two other local artists. Please feel free to visit the store if you are an animal lover like yours truly.

Being fond of animals  especially the "wild" kind,  I dedicate this post to all types of animals.

Pictures below are the paintings that will be up for Oct and Nov, 2016 at the store

Medium: Pen and Ink with Colored Pencils on Watercolor Paper

 Also linking this to Jake Parker's Inktober Challenge -- #inktober  and #inktober2016

Title: Adopt Me!
Medium: iPad Art
Apps used: Only the Pencil feature in the App Procreate

Title: Best Friends
Medium: Colored Pencils on Watercolor Paper

Title: Finding Nemo
Medium: Acrylics on 9 by 12" canvas

Pictures below are my entries to Colored Pencil Magazine's  Aug 2016 monthly challenge -- Beginner Category.
Photo Reference Credit: Sally Robertson

Title: American Bull Dog
Medium: Kohinoor Wood-less Colored Pencils and Watercolor Pencils  on Canson's Acid Free Sketch Paper 

The picture below is my entry to the Colored Pencil magazine's Annual Art Competition

Title: The Madhubani Peacock
Medium: Colored Pencils on Canson's Acid Free sketch paper

 Picture below is  One more entry to Jake Parker's Inktober Challenge. The Mule Deer is  created using Pen and Ink on watercolor paper--  #inktober2016 and  #inktober

With this I will conclude this post with a picture of one my most favorite animal from the animal kingdom. Picture taken from Jane Goodall Institute. 

Weekly challenge at Digital whisper and Illustration Friday

This week at Digital whisper the theme for this week's challenge is "Prince". Here is my entry for this week's challenge

Title: Purple Rain
Medium: iPad Art
Apps used: Procreate and Fracture

Note: For the above painting, picture of Prince taken from Google. The rest of it is my painting created using the iPad.

Like it, you can buy art prints from my Society6 store here : https://society6.com/jayashree242

Do head over to Digital whisper if you want to participate for this week's challenge : http://digitalwhisper.blogspot.com.au/  and check out artworks of all talented artists over there.

This week's challenge at " Illustration Friday" is Tattoo. Here is my entry for this week's challenge.

Title: Tattoo Bird
Medium: Pen and Ink on Watercolor paper

If you want to participate for this week's challenge at Illustration Friday then please visit this link : http://illustrationfriday.com/ 

I thank you all for your time and your comments in advance. Your lovely comments make my day!

"A strong spirit transcends rules."-- Prince

Zendala Dare and Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces Challenge

This week at I am the Diva ( Laura Harms's blog) is guest blogger Erin Olson from Zendala Dare Challenge. This week's challenge at the Diva is we have to use Erin Olson's template provided to create a Zendala.

For this week's challenge I  created a Zendala on my iPad. I haven't been tangling for a couple of weeks and my hands were itching to tangle ! I generally tangle with some soft New Age Music. 

Here is my entry for this week's challenge: 

Apps used: Sketchclub
Medium: iPad Art

And here is my entry for last week's challenge-- Guest Blogger Sandy Hunter challenged us to create a tile leaving some negative space ( white space). I found this challenge  very difficult as I am one of those artists who  has to fill the entire tile with tangles ( no white space) , so I had to really remind myself to not fill in the negative space with tangles. I decided to keep it simple for this challenge.

Title: Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces
Medium: Sakura Micron Pens  

Please check out Laura's Blog : http://iamthedivaczt.blogspot.com/   if you want to participate or be inspired by other artists. 


Looking forward to your comments. Thank you in advance for your time and response.

" To The Mind That Is Still, The Whole Universe Surrenders."-- Lao Tzu.

Marie Antoinette, Diva and L Challenge this week's challenge

This week's theme at Digital Whisper is my favorite theme -- Marie Antoinette

I created this using the iPad using Procreate app. Photo of Marie Antoinette from Google search. Rest of it is my creation.  I decided to go with a black and white  scheme for my challenge this week

Here is my entry for  this week's challenge

Title: Marie Antoinette
Medium: iPad Art
Apps used: Procreate

 If you want some creative inspiration or want to participate  then do head over to this blog   http://digitalwhisper.blogspot.com.au/

This week's at the Diva we must use tangles that are organic or natural. This is my entry for this week's challenge

Title: I love my heart !
Medium: Sharpies and Sakura Micron Pens

If you would like to participate for this week's challenge then visit

 http://iamthedivaczt.blogspot.com/2015/07/weekly-challenge-228-guest-blogger-cari.html 

My entry for TNTM weekly challenge is we have to use tangles starting from the letter "L" and also use tangles from the artist in focus -- J. J. LaBarbera

This is my entry for this week's challenge 

Tangles used for the TNTM challenge are Ticking, Arc Flower, Lichen, Lokomotive and I don't know the name of the heart like tangle. If you know then please  do let me know in the comments.

If you want to participate for this week's challenge, head over to this link

http://suzymoshcreations.blogspot.com/p/thats-new-to-me-weekly-challenge.html 

Thank you all for your time and lovely comments ! 

" A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." 

Two challenges in One Tile

This week at That's New To Me Challenge the random letter is "H". We have to use tangles starting from the letter H that you have never used before.  We also have to use any tangle the artist in focus has created on our tile.  The artist in focus for this week is Michele Beauchamp

I used Henna Drum and Heart vine. I used Michele's "Brayd" tangle and "Wist" tangle for this week's challenge. I also used Carole Ohl's " Featherfall" tangle.  I  also used " Poke root" tangle because it is my most favorite tangle and I tend to use it as often as I can. 
For this piece I used Henna Drum as a string to the tile. 

This week at the Diva challenge blog we have to limit our color palette  to 2 to 3 colors. I used Orange and Green Colors.  I used a Sharpie for this week's challenge. I decided I will combine both the challenges in  a single tile. 

Title: Henna Drum, Heart vine, Brayd, Wist, Featherfall and Poke root
Medium: Sakura Micron Pens and  Sharpies

I totally enjoyed this week's TNTM and Diva's challenge. It was fun.  Thank you !

" Every Child Begins the World Again." -- Henry David Thoreau

#zentangle #sharpie    #sakuraofamerica

N tangle, Tipple and Umble Challenge

Here is my entry for this weeks challenge  at SuzyMosh's  blog. For this weeks challenge we have to use any tangle that starts with the letter "N" and we must also use the artist in focus - Neil Burley's tangles on the tile. He is a mixed media artist, designer,tutor based in UK.

I used all new tangles for this week's challenge. I used Susan McNeill's  " Nine Patch" tangle, Beth Snoderly’s  " Neuron" tangle and two of Neil Burley's   tangles  " Leggo" and " Mile Straight" for my tile for this week's challenge. 

Title: Nine Patch,Neuron,Leggo,Mile Straight
Medium: Sakura MIcron Pens and a Pencil

The artist in focus will be raffling one of his books to one lucky winner. So if you want to participate in this week's challenge do visit  her blog at http://suzymoshcreations.blogspot.com/p/thats-new-to-me-weekly-challenge.html


This week's challenge for I am the Diva is to use Tipple as a Monotangle. Here is my entry for this week's challenge

Title: Tipple
Medium:  Sakura Micron Pens and a Sharpie

Do check out her blog http://iamthedivaczt.blogspot.com/ if you want to participate and for some creative inspiration from other artist's. 

This is my entry for last week's  diva challenge. We had to use Umble tangle in our art piece. 

Title: Origami Zen Swan
Medium: Micron Pens by Sakura

Note: I used an expired coupon paper and created an origami swan. After that I tangled on it with my Sakura Micron Pens. 

Title: Zen Birdies

The Zen Birds (see picture above) is inspired from Susan Mcneill's you tube channel and blog. 

I used an wood bird which I found at Michael's. Used watercolor paper and color pencils, sakura micron pens and drew tangles. Then cut it to fit the shape and used Mod Podge to glue them on. I used 2 coats of Mod Podge.

 I am yet to take a picture of the other side of the bird. Will post once  I am done.


 Thank you all for your time and response in advance. Wishing you all a Creative week ahead.

Happy Tangling !

" In the middle of every difficulty lies an opportunity." 

That's new to me weekly challenge-- Week #25

 This is my entry to this week's challenge. We have to use any tangle that starts with the letter F. Must use a tangle that we have never used before on our tile. I am glad that I decided to take part in this week's challenge as I got to learn a new tangle. I taught myself how to draw  the Flux tangle from this  website http://tanglepatterns.com/

Totally enjoyed learning a new tangle this week and creating  this tile.

Title: Flux
Medium: Micron Pens and Color Pencils

If you want to participate in this challenge, head over to her blog at http://suzymoshcreations.blogspot.com/

Thank you all wonderful people for your time and comments in advance.

" Anything is possible,one stroke at a time."-- Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas

Watercolors for Digital Whisper blog challenge

I was teaching my students on how to use the watercolor brush in the app Paper by 53 to mix colors. These paintings were created to inspire my students so that they could use their creative side of their brain to create wonderful works of art.

Here are some quick doodles by me  using the watercolor brush in  the app Paper by 53.

Title:Two little chicks !
Apps used: Paper by 53
Medium: iPad Art

  Note: The chicks were painted using the watercolor brush in the app Paper by 53.

Title: A cute little Monster
Apps used: Paper by 53
Medium: iPad Art

 Note: The Monster was colored using the watercolor brush in the app Paper by 53.

All art prints are available at my store http://society6.com/jayashree242

With that I will leave you with a quote to ponder on  that I came across from a group on Facebook. Do let me know if this is true for you.

" Artists are People Driven by the Tension between the Desire to Communicate and the Desire to Hide"- D.W. Winnicott


Thank you all for your time and comments in advance.  See you soon with another creative post.

#ipadart , #MobileArt,  #digitalart , #paperby53, #paperapp, #society6

Colors of the Rainbow Challenge

Here are my entries for this week's colors of the Rainbow challenge.

Title: It's a Jigsaw Puzzle
Medium: Colored pencils on Plywood

For the above painting I used an L- Shaped block of plywood.  Tangles were drawn on these   zentangle tiles. Colored using color pencils. I used ModPoge to stick these tiles on to the plywood. I no longer own this artwork as I sold it for a good cause.

 Here is  a Mandala that I did last week. This was created using an iPad digitally.

Title: Self- Realization
Medium: iPad Art
Apps used: iOrnament

All art prints are available at my store http://society6.com/jayashree242

Thank you all for hopping by. See you soon with another post.



" Everyday is a little life, live it to its fullest."

#zentangle, #ipadart , #iOrnament, #mobileart , #Society6

Diva Challenge #221 and a couple of other things

I am glad to let you know that my zentangle art  will be up at the Sunnyvale Mayor's office, CA for August and September, 2015. Here is a picture: 

Title: The Mighty Bull
Size: 11" x 14"
Medium: Pen and Ink

Here is my entry for Diva's -- Beads of Courage challenge. I had an  old unused envelope  which kept begging me to tangle on it. Hence I decided to tangle a beaded border for this challenge. I wanted to keep it simple.

Title: Beads of Courage Challenge
Medium: Pen 

 Supplies used: 

1) An old unused envelope

2) Sakura Pigma Micron 01 Pen

3) A Creative Spirit !

Thank you all for your time and response in advance.

" A tangle a day, keeps stress away." 

I am the Diva-- All Boxed up Challenge

For this week's challenge we have to use  Alice Hendon's -- All Boxed up tangle in our art piece. I decided to make a bookmark which I plan to gift it to my friends who I will be meeting later this week. I had fun learning a new tangle this week. Now I can add this tangle in my repertoire !

Thank you all for your time and comments in advance.

Supplies Used:

--Canson   Watercolor Pad
 --Sakura Micron Pigma 01
--Zig Memory System Writers- Red Color
--Pilot Hi-tecpoint V7 Grip Pen

Happy Tangling !

News Update: Campbell City Utility box Mural

 News Update: My art for the Campbell City Utility box Art Program  has been selected. Quite happy about it. 

Here is a picture in case you have missed it

I thank the city of Campbell for selecting my painting. With that I will leave you with a quote

" Make your heart happy and let it reflect on everything you do."

City of Campbell Utility Box Art Project

Here is my entry for the City of  Campbell Utility Box Art Project Artist call. 

The painting here is an abstract interpretation of nature like plants/shrubs, leaves, flowers and rocks which we otherwise fail to  appreciate in our everyday lives. This painting also represents a thriving community flourishing with life, love and growth.

Title: A Flourishing Life

With that I will leave you with a lovely quote for you to ponder on from liveaflourishinglife.com

" Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have" -- Unknown 

#zentangle  #sakuraofamerica

  

Buff - Lo and Behold !

Here is a new Zentangle  of a Buffalo that I created. Totally enjoyed tangling this one.

Title: Buff-- Lo and Behold !
Medium: Pen and Ink on watercolor paper

Thank you for hopping by and see you soon with another post.

#zentangle #sakuraofamerica

"Big goals require the accomplishment of many little goals." 

My entry for Jigsaw canvas show -- 2015

This is my entry for my upcoming show Jigsaw Canvas Art Show. Check up the details here http://www.jigsawcanvas.com/

This event is happening at the Sunnyvale Art Gallery located at 251 W. El. Camino Real, Sunnyvale, CA 94087. The Exhibition takes place from Jan 12- Mar 31, 2015. With the opening reception set on Sat, Jan 24,2015 3-5 pm and closing reception on Sat March 28, 7-9 pm.

This is a Fundraising event and the proceeds go to the Sunnyvale Community Services and Second Harvest Food Bank.

If you happen to be in and around this area then don't forget to stop by the gallery and enjoy some local art.

For those of you who cannot make it to the show, here is a picture of my entry to this show.

Title: It's a Jigsaw Puzzle !
Medium: Mixed media (Pen and Ink, Colored Pencil)

#sakuraofamerica  #coloredpencil  #zentangle

A feather in my cap !

My painting " Airavata-- The Elephant in Heaven" won 3rd place at the Sunnyvale Art Club's  Juried  show held on June 7 and June 8th, 2014 at the Sunnyvale Public Library. Totally feeling accomplished !

Here is a picture with the ribbon 

Title: Airavata- The Elephant in Heaven
Medium: Pen and Ink
Size: 16" x 14"

 This show was held at the Sunnyvale Public Library on June 7 and June 8,2014 and the judge for this show was Cathy Zander who is an Art Instructor at Pacific Art League,  Community School of Music and arts etc.

Here is the postcard created for the show

 I thank the judge for her time, critiques and kind words.

 With that I will leave you all  with another quote to think of and see you all in a new blog post

" The highest wisdom is kindness."

 #zentangle  #sakuraofamerica    #award

Birthday Greeting Cards

Here are my recently created Birthday Greeting cards.  These are going away as gifts!

Title: A parliament of little owls!
Medium: Pen and Ink on Watercolor paper

Title: A Parliament of little Owls !
Medium: Pen and Ink on Watercolor paper

Today I will leave you all with one of my favorite quotes from Create Mixed Media.com by Henry Rollins

See you all with another  creative idea soon.

Thanks for hopping by.

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