Doodle Contest: Flowers and Plants

This is my entry for doodling contest by @coloringiship with the theme "Flowers and Plants". I have always loved art since young but once become mother, it is no longer a practice except some colouring activities at home with children. Art, drawing and colouring is therapeutic in a sense it helps me to convey my emotions and feeling too.

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My entry

With colour

Without colour

It has been challenging week for me and my family. Firstly it was our kitchen disaster where our upstairs neigbhour's kitchen sink sort of exploded after they poured acid solution into the basin, thereafter the explosion leaked down to our kitchen. You could imagine the slime and black debris all over the kitchen. Then Jansen's hospitalisation. Now my husband's ankle's bone dislocated. Nevertheless, I had these verses in me for to hold on to my faith in God for my life. I want to be such a tree - where my roots goes down deep in love, so that my life is calm, steady and bountiful. That despite challenges, my soul and well-being still can prosper.

but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night. That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither—whatever they do prospers. Psalm 1:2-3

Once @coloringiship announced this doodle, I immediately decided to join to support her, at the same time express my emotions through doodling. Because of household matters to look into, I told myself to take one day at a time, because creating art content doesnt merely just think on it and type it out. It involves all the background work of coming out with the art 1st, snapping photos of the process and then only you type and write out the blog of the art contents. Now I salute all the art contents in the Steemit. It is not as easy as it seems to be. Dear artists Steemians, a big round of applause for you all!

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Process

1. Day 1: I diligently went through the tutorial by @coloringiship since this is my first time trying out doodling. It is indeed fun even my eldest son joined me in the tutorial.
   

   

2. Day 1: I drafted out the tree by the stream of river. I imagined the tree will be full of wonderful flowers and lively. So in my brain will have birds, butterfly and bee too. I keep all in my brain 1st. Day 2: I tried to refer so many times the tutorial given by @coloringiship again and again, keep squeeze out brain juice to come out with different type of flowers and petals and shapes etc. The fillers are useful too. Thank you for the tutorials tips. I learn ALOT!
   

   Day 1:Draft out 1st step.Day 2: Add in details of flowers and even a bush of flowers.

3. Day 3: Outline - I use whatever pen I can find at home.
   

   1mm and 0.7mm gel pen.This is how it looks after outline. At first I want to submit like this but my son asked me to colour it. I am glad amidst busyness, I did it!He wants to help with the butterfly outline.

4. Day 4: Colouring.
   

   Indeed, colours add life to the picture although I also love the black and white one.

Hope you all like this art of mine as much as my son and my husband did. They love it. And now my son wants to master doodling too. Lol. Really monkey see, monkey doo...

Thank you @coloringiship for always inspiring us with your art and always generous to share with us the skills, and always supporting us. Now I know doodling is fun, easy and relaxing! 😉

Here are the links provided by @coloringiship that I used for referance...many times. They are so useful.

1. Doodle Tutorial For Complete Beginners

2. Flower Doodle Tutorial

With 💗, @iamjadeline

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