Artist Inspiration & Growth

I have been trying to work on practicing with new mediums. I've never been the best at shading digitally but, I really enjoy Ann Marcellino, Brittany Lee, and Meg Park's mediums that they use. It really excites me! They have  fantastic mediums. I have like a week until school is out and then I'll be able to start working more on personal projects. I am hoping to work on doing practice sketches in similar mediums that they use as well as practice other types of oil painting skills as well. 

Here is some of Ann Marcellino's work: (I DO NOT OWN OR DID NOT CREATE THIS ARTWORK BY: Ann Marcellino 

ARTWORK BY: Brittany Lee

ARTWORK BY: MEG PARK

Books Come Alive

A library in a nearby town is looking for artists to participate in a contest. The contest is called- "Books Come Alive".  The library is wanting to paint a mural in their library or would like it to be a canvas work that is framed and put into the library.  So, they've asked artists and the such to come and submit designs based on their title "Books come alive". I did some brainstorming of what kind of design I would like. The deadline is by like the middle of next week or something for the sketches. Here's my rough thumbnails.