Author: cochranmarie97
Prompts to improve your drawing skills
Improving your drawing skills takes practice and patience, but there are several tips that can help you progress more effectively. Here are six key tips to enhance your drawing skills: 1. Draw from Life and Observation 2. Master Basic Shapes and Forms 3. Use Reference Images 4. Focus on Light and Shadow 5. Practice Gesture…
Last post for 2024!
Let’s talk about our goals and setting them up. How do you make achievable goals? The first step for me is to look at the previous year’s goals. Did I complete the goal that year? Second, I then come up with a new goal for the new year. For example, my reading goal was 50…
Bendon Art kit Review
Welcome to the art blog. Today I want to share a review for a art kit I got from my aunt as my Christmas gift early. The Bendon art kit is from Sam’s club: https://www.samsclub.com/p/deluxe-wooden-art-kit/P990350408 Here the front of the kit: This is the inside of the case. I took out the paint to put…
Goals for my business, December 2024 and into Dec. 2025
i found this quote and i liked it. So, I wanted to share it. I am going to be raising my prices on my artwork being a little higher. Pricing list: Digital color pages: $1 per design Drawings: $5 Paintings: $7 My social media goals are: YouTube followers: 110 X (twitter) followers: 2,500 Facebook group…
Pumpkin Drawing Process
I was planning on my bullet journal and realized I didn’t have a drawing done but I left space for one. Step one: 🎃🎃🎃🎃 Step two: 🎃🎃🎃🎃 Step Three: 🎃🎃🎃🎃 Step four: Find me on these social medias: Website:Find me on these social medias: Website: https://mariesartest2017.wordpress.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maries_art_est YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MariesArtEST Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/561242115082060 My memoir:…
Does a Blank Sketchbook cause you Anxiety?
I am currently drawing something that I will be taking about through this post. But first all artist and even writers experience that blank page anxiety. More so when deadlines are looming in your mind and on your calendar. As a artist first then a blogger/author second. My mission is to use my voice with…
Mental health journal prompts
This week I wanted to share some journal prompts with yall. I can list 5 things that made you smile today:1.2. 3.4.5. Identify one thing that can help make my mental health better in the next 24 hours. What is one thing I can do on a daily basis to help me track how my…
Big changes are coming!
This week on the blog I want to go over a little short list of the changes that will be happening within this week and implemented next week. I guess the best way to start this interesting post is to list everything out and go through it one by one. 1.) I will no longer…
Halloween shop update
Happy October 3, 2024. I have paint my Halloween artwork up for sale on Facebook and tiktok. Old pumpkin artwork started to pass along to new home. There are $3 each. Facebook market place link: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/499046293099624/?mibextid=dXMIcH Tiktok shop : https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTFU6RcPm/ Find me on these social medias: Website: https://mariesartest2017.wordpress.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maries_art_est2017/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarieArtEST2017 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MariesArtEST Facebook…
Life Update #2
What a crazy last two weeks it has been. After I was the admitted of the hospital last week. I was discharged on Thursday. I went home and joy time with my family on the weekend. Monday afternoon, I had a Doctor’s appointment for my high-risk OBGYN. Turns out.I was having complications due to medical…