Sweetbearies Art Tips

[...] late November up here in the San Bernardino Mountains. Come back in the next few days [...] [...]

[...] video I created of the view of Hesperia and Mount Baldy as seen from the backside of the San Bernardino Mountains. The photo gallery above contains more amazing shots from the San Bernardino Mountains [...]

[...] A subdued sunset up in the San Bernardino Mountains. [...]

[...] The name of this painting is two palm trees and the San Bernardino Mountains because of the backdrop behind the monocots that are swaying in the wind.  I love [...]

[...] After a couple of months of working on my cross stitched palm tree on aida cloth, I am finally finished with this project. Here are the last few steps that [...]

[...] Rather than drawing a palm tree, for this Valentine’s Day card I decided to draw a picture of a heart tree. This Valentine’s Day [...]

[...]   Today I created the outline sketch for the palm tree painting. [...]

[...] of palm trees before I settled on one that I wanted to print out and frame. Now I have a nice palm tree print to hang on my wall. [...]

[...] Here I explain how I used fabric markers to draw palm trees on a shirt. [...]

[...] Here are some of the beautiful pictures I took of the view looking up towards Big Bear and the palm trees here in the Inland Valley. [...]

[...] The photos of mountain views and palm trees were taken on my walk here in Southern California last week. [...]

[...]  Hawaii also inspires a lot of my artwork.  Perhaps Hawaii is my muse, and I can definitely say palm trees are a muse of sorts.                 [...]

[...] Today I am continuing to work on my painting of Mount Baldy, as seen from the San Bernardino Mountains. The video below will illustrate how I painted in [...]

[...] I am continuing to work on painting the view of Mount Baldy, as seen from the San Bernardino Mountains. [...]

[...] Here is the completed painting, which features the view of Mount Baldy from the San Bernardino Mountains. This video illustrates what the finished oil painting looks [...]

[...] Above is a video I created of the view of Hesperia and Mount Baldy as seen from the backside of the San Bernardino Mountains. The photo gallery above contains [...]

[...] backyard back in the summer of 2002.  My old photographs of Buster have inspired many of my art projects. Below is a shirt that I designed with one of my Buster drawing. Buster On The Deck T-Shirt by [...]

[...] that will showcase the art and photography I create for this site, and my other articles about art projects and crafting.   [...]

[...] This is the second installment of my video photo galleries, which show various art projects and photographs I created in 2011. [...]

[...]   My blog is all about sharing how I create art projects and crafts on a budget, so today for the letter C I decided to talk about crafting.  I make [...]

[...] used a photograph I took of a palm tree as inspiration for the outline sketch I created on the aida cloth.  I could have graphed out the sketch, but I thought it would be more spontaneous to just [...]

[...] to cross on the dark green portions of the palm branches. Draw a picture directly on the aida cloth was more interesting to me because I did not want to sit there and plot out a design on graph [...]

[...] still working on the cross stitched palm tree that I designed by drawing an outline directly on aida cloth. This is not a counted cross stitch design, but a following the drawing design. In the photos [...]

[...] After a couple of months of working on my cross stitched palm tree on aida cloth, I am finally finished with this project. Here are the last few steps that resulted in the the [...]

[...] consumptive craft that can be tailored to people of all ages, especially if you use yarn and plastic canvas mesh. Here are some of the simple and fun plastic canvas cross stitch projects I made over [...]

[...] crafter probably has in their supplies. I made this cross stitched heart with red yarn and plastic canvas mesh. [...]

[...] I created a cross stitch gingerbread man ornament out of plastic canvas mesh and yarn. The video below illustrates how I created the gingerbread man from start to [...]

[...] I have finally completed the heart cross stitch design on plastic canvas mesh using yarn. The video below will illustrate how I created this heart piece from start to [...]

[...] I designed a Valentine heart card with my colored pencil drawing. These vibrant colors are happy and fun, and that is the kind of art that inspires me. [...]

[...] I finally completed the colored pencil drawing of the view of Hesperia as seen from the San Bernardino Mountains. This drawing has a quite a [...]

[...] A few weeks ago I finally completed the colored pencil drawing of a cat with the moon and stars as a backdrop. [...]

[...]   Today I created the outline sketch for the palm tree painting. [...]

[...] I used a photograph I took of a palm tree as inspiration for the outline sketch I created on the aida cloth.  I could have graphed out the sketch, but I thought it [...]

[...] seen from the San Bernardino Mountains. The video below will illustrate how I painted in the outline sketch of Mount Baldy. I still have more work to do, but I almost like how there is a green hill in [...]