Videos Archives - Peony and Parakeet

How I Organize My Colored Pencil Drawings

Päivi — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:32:28 +0000

This week, I’m sharing my storage system for colored pencil drawings, and you get to see many art ideas as well. How I Organize My Colored Pencil Drawings – Watch the Video! In this video, you’ll get a look at my work from over the years and see how I keep everything organized, safe, and […]

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Video: Artist’s Life and Inner Inspiration

Päivi — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:35:55 +0000

This week, I made a video blog post where I share what I have been working on lately. This watercolor piece is one of them. In the video, I also talk about the inner inspiration – that not everything has to come from outside, but there’s a lot within our inner world already. You get […]

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50 Art Ideas in an Art Journal

Päivi — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 13:13:56 +0000

This week I have a special treat for you: a flip-through video of my full Dylusions Creative Journal. It has 50 art ideas, not only for art journaling but for art-making in general. The pages are mostly made with colored pencils, watercolors, and acrylic paints. I also have many that have hand-drawn collage pieces. I […]

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Abstract Watercolor Flower Card

Päivi — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:49:23 +0000

This week, I invite you to paint with me. Let’s make an abstract watercolor flower card! Abstract Watercolor Flower Card – Watch the Video! In this video, you see me both creating and talking about abstract floral art. Watch the video and paint with me! I hope my love for abstract florals is contagious! Here’s […]

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Wild Garden – The Early-Bird Sale Begins Now!

Päivi — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 09:53:52 +0000

Exciting news! The early-bird registration for the new watercolor course Wild Garden is now open! Watch the video and sign up now! Wild Garden will begin on September 22, 2025. The early-bird sale will end on August 24 (at midnight PDT). Sign up here!

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Painting Seascapes – Making The Scenery Look Bigger

Päivi — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 13:18:50 +0000

This week, we dive deeper into painting seascapes and other big sceneries. In spring, I thought my painting Atlantis was already finished, but after seeing the ship paintings in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam in May, I realized that I had made my seascape painting too simple and small-scale, and went back to working on it. […]

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Develop Your Art Style Without Forcing

Päivi — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 13:14:28 +0000

When you want to develop your art style, you don’t have to force it. Stop feeling frustrated not being focused enough and s tart growing the visual vocabulary: learn how to create a variety of shapes and lines and find different ways to use color. Whether you want to paint abstract art or fill your […]

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Coloring an Intuitive Selfie

Päivi — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 15:10:31 +0000

This week, we draw an intuitive selfie, so without a camera or a mirror. Let’s pick the colored pencils and create a self-portrait freely and intuitively! We use the pencils as a camera and draw the face as it’s a photo taken from the inner world’s view. At the same time, we explore blurriness, freedom, […]

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Using Up Old Crayons

Päivi — Thu, 22 May 2025 15:12:33 +0000

This week, we use up those old crayons: oil pastels, soft pastels, Faber & Castell Gelatos, Derwent Artbars … whatever you happen to have! This piece is made of Faber & Castell Gelatos and oil pastels. I used oil pastels a little more than gelatos. The paper is thick mixed-media paper. You can see in-progress […]

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Art Journal as a Storybook

Päivi — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:28:31 +0000

This week, we are looking at an art journal as a storybook, full of fairy tales that are not borrowed but our own. With this video, I want to inspire you to create whimsical art journal pages that illustrate personal stories. In these pages, mundane things become more fantastical, and there’s no pressure to draw […]

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Flower for Your Art Journal – Step by Step Video

Päivi — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:22:07 +0000

Let’s pick watercolors and colored pencils and make a flower for your art journal! Scroll down to watch a step-by-step video! This flower can be a rose or a peony or any round and layered species. For me, it’s not so important which flower it is, but what kind of personality it expresses. Here I […]

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Happy Holidays with Video Artwork

Päivi — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 12:40:51 +0000

This week, I have a video artwork for you. Here’s how the background story goes:Far away in an unknown land there is a crazy chapel. Your imagination is this chapel. When you’re there long enough, you can see anything, and experience anything, and some of it leaves a mark on your heart and thus on […]

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