The last time I posted a blog was during the start of Daisy Yellow Art’s Index Card A Day (ICAD) Challenge in early June. I am happy to say that I completed all 61 days of prompts and, along with that, now have the beginning illustrations and snippets of my book, “Farley’s Fairies and the Mystery of the Little Cottage.” It was a lot of fun and I will post here to let you all know when I’ve published the picture story book and make it available on Amazon online.
It’s now October, time for the 31-day InkTober Drawing Challenge and for another Barbee picture story mystery! This one features 3 sisters, Inky, Pinky and Dinky and several of their closest friends, ha ha! I’m posting my illustrations in the InkTober 2019 Public Facebook Page which you can join by searching for Inktober 2019 in Facebook. My art is also on Instagram (@BarbaraHauenstein).
I’ve had several requests for the free use of my illustrations and so will post occasional coloring pages here that you may print and color yourself, but I cannot make them all freely available since I spend many hours creating them and am publishing books for sale. Those posted publicly are watermarked and reduced in size so won’t print out the same as those in my books. With that said, my intention is to provide coloring pages here that are clear and free for personal use, although they still carry my copyright. I encourage you to alter the pages you print here (and from other art, as well) with rubber stamps, ephemera and more! I like to print mine on 110 lb. card stock and play with them by coloring and altering them. I intend to create videos on my process soon. Please let me know how yours turn out in the comments below!
My books are online on Amazon. Just open Amazon and enter my name (Barbara Sanders Hauenstein) in the search box to see current available books. If you have additional questions about purchasing my art, please email me.
I hope you all enjoy every minute of this wonderful autumn season!
Enjoy the Journey!
Buzzy Barbee
Barbara Hauenstein
BuzzyBarbee@gmail.com
Here’s the story behind this blog’s illustration, from my October 2019 story:
Episode 11 from my October 2019 story.
Prompt: SNOW.
Episode 11 from my October 2019 story.
Prompt: SNOW.
One of Inky’s friends w as named Mary. Mary had several little lambs with fleece as white as SNOW. She loved snow! She was super good with crafts and so created some little mountains and trees and garnished her hair with them to match the “snow” theme.
