31 Days of Fabulous Flowers
Sketchbook Tour of Pieces from Floral March
Floral March 2025 has come to an end and I'm sharing the prompts, the paints, and all 31 sketchbook pieces. They are all rendered in watercolor, and most have either have watercolor pencil or colored pencil, and are in my sketchbook.
This past month, March 2025, I took on my most ambitious monthly challenge yet. Floral March 2025 isn’t much different than other challenges I’ve participated in, but my involvement with my work is much more immersive for me, as well as the viewer.
I’ve been documenting this month’s sketchbook journey through videos recorded as I work. I’ve been sharing these in batches. I think it’s fun to slowly peruse these videos and take them in as you can. So this is how I’m sharing these with you, the reader. I hope you feel inspired after watching them.
I began doing these monthly art challenges, dipping my toes into the water slowly. As I did a couple more, I began using the work I made for the challenges as a way to stay accountable with myself. To make time for both my work as well as my sketchbook practice on a daily basis. It makes me trudge through my artist time and my personal obligations simultaneously. It makes me vary my use of my sketchbooks, it helps me get back to studies for work more like I used to do. It may have honed some of my skills on all playing fields.
This video’s description also has all of the links to paints and pencils used for all 31 days worth of videos. Just check the description under the video.
I’ve been posting long-form videos with some talking about what I’m doing, what products I’m using, and speeding up parts to allow the viewer to just watch my work as I make it. As I’ve previously mentioned, I’ve taken on my most ambitious monthly challenge yet. My involvement with my work is much more immersive, for me and also the viewer. I’ve shared these In the long-form videos,in 30 second short-form videos of my initial sketching of the floral subject in pencil, and short-form videos of the whole creation process sped up, and making videos of about 30 seconds up to 3 minutes.
I’ve posted Substack articles along this Floral March journey, packed into a digestible six part series.
To see all of my Art Challenge videos, here is a link to the playlist on Youtube: Art Challenges
If you have any questions, comments, or tips, drop them in the comments and we can start a conversation.
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Until next time, Cheers, Elizabeth
