Welcome to my newly updated blog, "The Crafting Duo - An Artist's View of the World & Bee Notable"

I am going to start using this blog to share my mom's and my art, crafts, cards, projects, and ideas.

A little about my art journey. I have always loved to color, create, and draw at a young age. What you don't know, is that I actually got started in watercolor painting in 2019. My father and mother gave me a watercolor kit that included paper, brushes, a book, and paint for Christmas. Then a friend told me about Let's Make Art, and the rest is, as they say, history.

This Succulent painting is about 1 year later in 2020. I have loved learning how to watercolor paint. I took to it so fast. It has been an anchor in my life.

Here is a dragon, my most recent painting, painted last week:

I used watercolor pencils. I also turned it into a card. Here is a link to the card: Dragon Card

This is actually my second time painting this dragon and first time as a smaller version. I like the color choices I made much better.

The tutorial and outline is from Lets Make Art

here is a direct link to the tutorial/paint along on YouTube: Dragon Paint Along

I used:
> Tim holtz distress watercolor pencils
> Faber Castell watercolor pencils
> size 2, 4, 6, and 8 Princeton Heritage, and Let's Make art brushes
> graphite paper and dragon outline from Let's Make Art
> 4 x 6 Watercolor Paper 140 lb
> Tombow fine liner pen

Here are a few other paintings I have done throughout the years:

Painting flowers and landscapes are by far my favorite, but I do paint lots of other things too. I will feature many of these things in this updated blog.

I have been painting for 5 years now! I got into art journaling and card making and
I am now what they call a "mixed media" artist. I use pretty much anything and everything. I have painted acrylic, watercolor, gouache, gel printing, cardstock, sprays, inks, stamps, stickers, pastes, etc.

I have truly enjoyed my journey from drawing to painting to mixed media. I am so grateful for all the support and love from family and friends who have helped me along the way.

It is so scary putting your art out there for everyone to see, but I guess it is time!

I hope you all enjoy my art as much as I have had making it.

You can see many of my paintings, creations, cards, art journal pages etc. on my Instagram page: Sabra Gerdes's Instagram

“Creative expression can also represent the celebration of our gratitude to God for our gifts and talents.” - Elder Neal A. Maxwell