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Tegan Coutts @tegancoutts.bsky.social · Jun 29

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

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Tegan Coutts @tegancoutts.bsky.social · Jun 27

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

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Tegan Coutts @tegancoutts.bsky.social · Jun 13

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

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Tegan Coutts @tegancoutts.bsky.social · May 29

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

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

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Tegan Coutts @tegancoutts.bsky.social · May 28

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

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

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Tegan Coutts @tegancoutts.bsky.social · May 26

Great colors!

Tegan Coutts @tegancoutts.bsky.social · May 26

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

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Draw More! 🇨🇦🏔🎨😎 @doryr.bsky.social · May 21

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

Mount Kidd with forest and shoreline in foreground.

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Tegan Coutts @tegancoutts.bsky.social · May 21

Great line work!

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Tegan Coutts @tegancoutts.bsky.social · May 21

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

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Tegan Coutts @tegancoutts.bsky.social · May 19

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

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Matt Lyon @mattlyon.bsky.social · May 17

Yes to all of this

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!!!

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Tegan Coutts @tegancoutts.bsky.social · May 17

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

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Tegan Coutts @tegancoutts.bsky.social · May 16

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

Sketch of an ice cream stand at a festival.

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Tegan Coutts @tegancoutts.bsky.social · May 15

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

Tegan Coutts @tegancoutts.bsky.social · May 15

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

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

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

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Tegan Coutts @tegancoutts.bsky.social · May 14

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

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Tegan Coutts @tegancoutts.bsky.social · May 13

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.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · May 12

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

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Tegan Coutts @tegancoutts.bsky.social · May 13

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

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

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Tegan Coutts @tegancoutts.bsky.social · May 12

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

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Tegan Coutts @tegancoutts.bsky.social · May 11

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

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Tegan Coutts @tegancoutts.bsky.social · May 9

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

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

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Tegan Coutts @tegancoutts.bsky.social · May 6

Love love love!!!!!!!

Tegan Coutts @tegancoutts.bsky.social · May 1

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

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