Free Tutorials on Art/Design? | Inktober | Barevested

I've been working on #Inktober over here [and on Instagram] and hoping to start giving free tutorials of all the art and fashion skills I know. Keep the crafts alive! Reach out in the comments with any recommendations or thoughts, please and thank you!

{'Swift,' from Day 1 of Inktober 2017.}

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I finally...and I mean FINALLY - launched my vest website:

www.barevested.com

So you can sign-up to find out when I release my Kickstarter!!!

And then I pulled-out my back putting Owie into his car seat! 😳 Things will be a little slower than I imagined for a bit. Then hopefully back to normal and I will finish the Kickstarter videos when I can stand-up straight again! 😂🤣 Thankfully, I'm reading "Finding Your Way in a Wild New World" by Martha Beck (and thanks to the recommendation from my Soul Sister Tiffany) and believe that this pain will eventually reveal its true purpose/meaning. For now, it's at least caused me to pause, breathe, and then blog. So, I'll take it!

Sleep well, team. 

xx

Alex

Treefrog Process

Tree frog from Mystic Aquarium, Alex Whatton, 2017

Pencil sketch.

Ink Outline.

First watercolor going in.

Underlay of blue tones.

Greens in, finishing touches are last!

Last touches of black ink and white gel ink.

The finished tree frog!

xx
Alex

National Parks near Colorado?

We need to plan a trip soon. I am ready to take these crazy boys somewhere new! 

I've been thinking about an RV trip to Yellowstone, but maybe we can camp or stay locally?

I really don't know yet. 

Or maybe we will just go visit my brother and his family in Colorado - any recommendations for national parks to visit near Colorado Springs (and up to five hours from there?)? Let me know in the comments! Thank you!

Family hike, summer 2015.

Dali Museum in Florida, summer 2015

Lake Hayward, CT, summer 2015.

Ha! For some reason, I can only access photos that are a year and a half old. My boys look so much older now!!

xx

Alex