Another Gift from Our Neighbor

Yesterday hubby was out working in the yard when approached by our Neighbor.  He had two vases he wanted me to have...both made of marble.

Our neighbor who's family is from Taiwan used to own several stores that carried crafted Taiwan merchandise.  The vases are two such items he used to sell.  Both were in their original boxes he had stored after closing down the stores.  They are from 40 years ago.

One is a large, very heavy, two-in-one vase by flipping it...something I've never seen before.  The other is a small one with a very intricate design.  I love both but my favorite is the smaller one because of the size and design.

Worked in Procreate by first working a line drawing, completely filling in the black areas and then working over the black with white for the design.  Various brush tools were used for this one, to include:

Inking / Studio Pen, Sketching / HB Pencil, Airbrushing / Soft Airbrush, Charcoal / Carbon stick, Elements / Water (for marbling effect).

The berries are from last year Terry cut from a palm tree.  What's neat about the berries is the fact they dried hard rather than shriveling up or getting mushy.

This one didn't take as many different brush tools due to the simplicity of design.  They included the Inking / Studio Pen, Sketching / HB Pencil, and Airbrushing / Soft Airbrush.

When using Smudge or Erase as a technique, I match the brush tool to that I used to put down lines and color.