"What is Inktober?" you may ask... For the longest time, I wasn't too sure myself. I did know it had to do with drawing one picture in ink (hence the name) every day for the entire month of October. Inktober is a fun challenge for all types of artists, so this month I got inspired …
The good thing about butterflies is that, like peacocks, they lend themselves nicely to being whimsical. So it follows naturally that I would have at one time gone through a "butterfly period". When you look at these remember, none of them will look "real", but they will look "real whimsical"! This might be my very first …
Okay, how many grandmas do YOU know who would let you paint their bathroom door? Or perhaps the better question is, "How many would let you paint a whimsical scene on their bathroom door?" Now we're getting somewhere... For the longest time I had been thinking how fun it would be to paint a whimsical scene …
As you know, I'm still working on my whimsical garden. (My Whimsical Garden Part 1) So now it's time for Part 2... One of my goals is for my back yard to be drought-friendly as well as whimsical. There already isn't much grass, so I feel like I'm saving water there. But I can't just leave …
If you have read the post "My Whimsical Garden Part 1" you may have been wondering how that is going. Well I got the key windchimes done...(used all of 4 keys) and now I've been working on birdhouses. But first let's look at the wind chimes. It took a few tries to get it right, …
OK, now that I have introduced you to my whimsical gardens on paper, and to my friend's real life whimsical garden, it's time to have a look at my own "garden". It's safe to say it is a "real life garden" but I'm not sure the word "whimsical" can be applied, yet... (that's why this …
A friend of mine has what I consider a real life whimsical garden. She has a very small area to work with but has done an incredible job making this tiny space into a whimsical wonderland. Here are some pictures of her garden, followed by some more "whimsical garden" drawings. Do you see the similarities? …
This post will give you an idea of how artwork can help you get through an uncomfortable time in your life. These are my first notebooks from 2011, the year when everything changed for us. I have notebooks like this from as far back as 2005 but what I noticed in looking through them is that until …
This is the excerpt for your very first post.
Nana's Whimsical World 