How Procreate Works for me Part 1

A snip of my iPad when starting a canvas.

 

Procreate is like having a blank white canvas. With a digital pen or my finger, I can draw, I can color with crayons, water paints, oil paints, whatever I choose. the slides you see up on left, make the brushes thicker, thinner, light darker. You can draw your own flower and make a stamp to use or do all that I did with these stamps someone else made.

I have been drawing and coloring and in the past week, found brushes to download that are what you would call stamps if you were making greeting cards. You stamp and then your do what you want with it to make it better or sometimes worse ha ha, and simply tap the screen with two fingers and it erases and you start again... If you are familiar with Photoshop, this canvas uses layers and each time you do something you do it on another layer.

I downloaded a brush set that is Flowers. Above I chose a black canvas, and this is what the flower looks when I Stamp it... I can make them any color, large, small, duplicate. 

My style is Neon on Black on this blog. Above is how I started and below are

how they ended up. Its like customizing an old piece of furniture or a car. Make it your own.

 

I did this one on white canvas, and liked it but wanted a black background, for use on a new header.

I changed to a black background and played with the setting curves, to make it neon.

I chose this one for my new header because I love the color.

Jacqueline Kane

 I started Valentines Day, with my usual morning walk with my heart dog Beau. Most days we see a homeless man riding a bike to get his breakfast. He is a senior Hispanic man and always smiles a huge toothless grin and sings Hello Poochie at Beau as he slowly rides by. On this day he coasted to a stop, leaned over and patted his leg. Beau walked to him, and he stood, one leg up and the other down, bending down, standing with his head down almost to the ground, hugging and petting and making smoochie sounds. He stood back up and as he rode away, he said THANK YOU!!!! I sang Thank YOU!

60 seconds after he left, I heard the sound of a huge truck stopping beside me and turning to see who it was, there sat a HUGE Purple Pickup, 4 Wheel Drive truck with a handsome young millennial male, dark curls, huge smile, was hanging out waving at me and Yelling Happy Valentines Day. He was the picture of joy and happiness. Talking about a blessed heart, I had one.. So unexpected.

Two acts of random kindness prepared my heart to receive the news as I started the walk home, I received a text from Jackie's husband, Richard, my best friend Jackie had passed away at home at 6 AM, Feb 14, 2025. 

In the past 4 years, one by one, my friends, Ann, Catherine, Carol, Madeline and Loretta from my hometown of Savannah, GA, passed away, leaving me with my BFF Jackie, living only a 4 minutes' drive away. She and her husband Richard were the Go-to If needed for us, able to enter our home and rescue Beau if needed, my text/talk/email daily, Local friend. My call or visit and vent to friend, my loved me and cared about me friend. She loved Beau and he loved her.

Goodbye my friend, I will miss you forever! 

Jacqueline Kane, February 14th, 2025

I believe that God sent the two men that Beau and I saw on our walk, to give us Random Acts of Kindness to pave the way for the news that Jackie was gone from this earth. She and her husband have done many random acts of kindness to us. The day after Hurricane Milton, Richard appeared with burgers and fry's and coffee and chicken nuggets from McDonalds and another day with a bag of ice. 

I knew that if I had any need at all, they would come running. 

1 hour after receiving the news, I read a post, on The Frog and the Penguinn blog that this week is Random Acts of Kindness Week, the perfect tribute to Jackie.

❤️ In 1982, magazine writer and editor Anne Herbert coined the phrase "practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty." Random Acts of Kindness Week, started Feb 9 found on The Frog and Penguinn later in the morning.