The Hawksbill Turtle

I used different mediums in my handmade sketchbook.

 

Watercolour Sketches

 For the January Doodlewash Challenge.

These are done in a small 4x4 inch pinkpig sketchbook

H is for Hat [ I accidentally smudged her lips before they were dry]

G is for Globe

F is for Farm

E is for Elm

Dog in Acrylics and Sketchbook Revival

Acrylic Painting - Dog

I did this by watching an Angela Anderson video on UTube. I didn't like it when I had first done it but it's grown on me.

Sketchbook Revival

Day 4, session 2: Concertina Fun: Make a fun mini concertina book with Karen Stamper

Day 6, session 2 with Helen Wells. Expressive Sketchbooks: Seeking inspiration outside.

I used small sticks and the end of a feather to draw these with  ink. I used photographs of interesting trees for inspiration. I think this has been my favourite session so far.

I used two of the stick drawings to make a pocket in an altered book.

The pocket holds an altered postcard.

Day 5, session 1. Robyn McClendon - Altered Book as a sketchbook.

Day 7, session 1 with David Drazil

Drawing Perspective Made Easy

This one is 5 point perspective

Day 7, session 2 with Trupti Karjinni

Watercolour Summer Landscape

Day 8, session 1 - Shelley Klammer

The History and Practice of Automatic Drawing

I think you can still join in with these sessions if anyone is interested.

Happy Paint Party Friday!

 

Snowmen

The models for these were a little sat and pepper set I have. I drew them on my android tablet.

Handmade Sketchbook - Pages 77-82

Button Book -part 4

Artwork on paper, hand embroidery, art button

Paper packaging background, inkjet prints of vintage envelopes, hand embroidery, art buttons

Ripped and layered wrapping, decorative machine embroidery, art buttons [these were transferred laser prints, some not very successfully]

Artwork background [leaf printing], hand embroidery, these faux buttons are artwork wrapped around card discs.

Button Book - part 3

I used a mix of papers for this, one inkjet [my design], one artwork and the spotty was a found paper. I confess that the buttons aren't really buttons, they are faux buttons made from some recycled round foam [packaging?] and covered with my art work. I did a row of embroidery near the middle and used embroidery to hold two pages together.

On the other side is also a mix of papers, my art work to the left and some found papers to the right. The butterflies and flower paper was from a magazine and the spotty was wrapping paper. I painted a heart doily to go on top. The buttons were created from art work and clear buttons.

On this page is my artwork [stamped paper, I used a handmade rolling stamp], recycled gold Christmas hat, gold textured card, dyed lace and recycled buttons.

Once again stitched around the edges.

I'll start by saying that the colours do not look quite as they do in real life. I have used some painted and textured paper for the background. The lump in the middle is made from plastic and layered then painted [browns and various metallics on top], machine stitched and hand stitched. The buttons are bog standard recycled shirt buttons sewn on with metallic thread. I've couched some braid to the edges of the plastic.

More Art Buttons

I've been making more art buttons, probably for a new book I'm making.

For the blue buttons above I used clear buttons and art work.

I used some big buttons for these two, unfortunately I didn't read the words on the bit of book page before I used it, it'll have to be on a sad page.

These were some of the patterns I used for a fabric design. Clear buttons and inkjet print.

More clear buttons and art work.

Do you want to make some? See the tutorial on how to make them.