Tegan Coutts

It was a weird day in the city. Around every corner there was….something.

#hotday #summer #strange #comic #graphic #sketchbook #art #illustrator #illustration #nuremberg #nuernberg #nürnberg #art #strange #ink

Sketchbook showcase. One is my recipe for my afternoon pick-me-up on workout days, and the other is a reminder I wrote to myself to write down my ideas. POSTHASTE!

#sketchbook #ink #posthaste #workoutmotivation #recipe #graphicrecipe #graphicrecording #illustration #illustrator #icedcoffee

The view of the magic color-changing house will soon be blocked. I am taking in the magic for as long as I can.

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#urbansketching #sketchbook #light #color #watercolor #art

Magenta Flowers in a sketchbook with black background.

Magenta salvia on a black background with some yellow for contrast.

Magenta poppies on a black background. Some yellow thrown in there for contrast

Some more from my floral sketchbook. I really like how these came out. It started with the black background. #flowers #salvia #poppy #sketchbook #art #ink #floral

A work with five faces. Done with contour lines and not looking at the paper. Hence the name “blind contour”. Background is floral.

Nothing like doing some blind contour drawings and coloring them in. #blindcontour #contour #line #creativity #play #art #alwaysart #faces #flowerbackground #daisies

Great colors!

Strawberry plant on ink with ink and white oil pit pastel. #floral #floralsketchbook #flowers #art #sketchbook

Mount Kidd with forest and shoreline in foreground.

Spring days: Mount Kidd, if I remember right, in the Kananaskis area. Drawn with pigment pen and watercolour.
#mountainart

Great line work!

Trombone player in turquoise and ink

Trombone player drawn while at my daughter’s band concert. Can you hear the music? 🎶 #sketchbook #illustration #trombone #music #art #limitedpalette #musician #ink #crayon #enpleinair

More flowers for me flower book. I mostly wanted to use orange and green and this is what happened. #sketchbook #florals #orange #green #art #floraldesign #watercolor #crayon

Text reads: MINIMALISM IS DEAD!!! Long live tacky extravagance, performative excess, artless luxury, and all forms of OPULENCE for its own sake!!! LONG LIVE BAD TASTE!!!

Yes to all of this

Worked in my floral sketchbook again. This is number 6. I love how flowers give off a retro vibe. #sketchbook #art #retro #floralpattern #pattern #flowers #peace

Sketch of an ice cream stand at a festival.

Ice cream stand from a festival. #urbansketching #drawingfromlife #enpleinair #icecream #festival

Doc looks a little sinister. I love his tilted hips. This was fun to do.

Playmobil Marty McFly with guitar in ink. This was a warmup drawing.

Playmobil Doc Brown. This was a warmup drawing done in ink.

Back to the Future is my favorite movie. I love the whole trilogy. This was a warm up of drawing my #playmobil Doc and Marty McFly. #ink #warmup #drawingfromlife #sketchbook #art #freehand #martymcfly #docbrown

One of my favorite quotes from my mom “don’t go there!!! You’ll get….stabbed” 😂😂😂😂

Haha. You know it. I was very quickly trying to catch the essence of “downtown”. That means hair salons, coffee shops, dollar general, and bars. 😂 it made me want to elaborate though. Next one I can add an evangelist church.

The world needs more of this and less of most other things

Art supplies. Swatches of supplies and two drawings made with supplies.

Still life of the corner of my living room. Lamp, photos, basket filled with blankets

A downtown scene. Coffee. Bar. Dollar store

Swatches of new art supplies.

New art supplies! 3 neocolor II, 2 luminance pencils, 2 highlighters, and yellow ink. #carandanche #stabilo #sennelier I’m enjoying how they mix with eachother. #artsupplies #art #artstore #play #create

I’ve become more and more interested in drawing flowers. I’ve always loved looking at botanical drawings. I found out that working with highlighters is magical. Used a brown #stabilo #highlighter and a purple #carandache luminance pencil. #sketchbook #limitedpalette #art

Had a little time today here is the view down the St. Elisabeth past Weißer Turm. I used two materials #ink #urbansketching #sketchbook #art #germany #nuremberg #nuernberg

Yellow and blue sketch featuring a weird lion man and an androgynous figure with an earring and a cap.

Today has been a day of play and thinking about color. I’ve been having a hard time getting inspiration and creating. Today has been about play. So behold! #sketchbook #color #play #art #weird #androgynous

Love love love!!!!!!!

This is my #sketchbook for today. We went to the Walberlafest. It was hot. There was enough to eat and drink though. #walberla #franconia #fraenkischeschweiz #mayday #enpleinaire #art

In the making. #art #draw #paint #18thcentury

My interpretation of Diana and Bacchus (Fall) Anton Kern, 1747.

Diana and Bacchus (Fall) Anton Kern 1747. The Spring allegory with Flora and Venus is depicted in light pastel-like colors. Its pendant - also hung as such - takes up the theme of Fall with the figure of Bacchus crowned with vine leaves. The paintings probably come from a set of the Four Seasons. Their intended use is unclear: They may have served as wall decoration or as decoration for the coach used for the Saxon-Bavarian wedding in 1747. Kern's various commissions for this celebration as well as the format and material employed support this thesis.

Diana and Bacchus (Fall) Anton Kern 1747. The Spring allegory with Flora and Venus is depicted in light pastel-like colors. Its pendant - also hung as such - takes up the theme of Fall with the figure of Bacchus crowned with vine leaves. The paintings probably come from a set of the Four Seasons. Their intended use is unclear: They may have served as wall decoration or as decoration for the coach used for the Saxon-Bavarian wedding in 1747. Kern's various commissions for this celebration as well as the format and material employed support this thesis.

Diana and Bacchus (Fall) Anton Kern 1747. The Spring allegory with Flora and Venus is depicted in light pastel-like colors. Its pendant - also hung as such - takes up the theme of Fall with the figure of Bacchus crowned with vine leaves. The paintings probably come from a set of the Four Seasons. Their intended use is unclear: They may have served as wall decoration or as decoration for the coach used for the Saxon-Bavarian wedding in 1747. Kern's various commissions for this celebration as well as the format and material employed support this thesis.

I went to Drink and Draw at the Germanische Nationales Museum. I was intent on focusing on the area of this dress that upon inspection looked like a blob or the borders of a country. Diana and Bacchus (Fall)
Anton Kern 1747 #art #abstract #painting #GNM #nuremberg

Subway drawing. #urbansketching #peoplesketching #subwaysketching #sketchbook

My husband decided we will do this every other year. So I will fly you over as a migrant worker while I drink cocktails and watch. 😂

I look like my mother. Dorky hat and all. 😂 #powerwashing #clean #cleanig #patio #garden