Doodlewash and AJJ

I've used a few of the Doodlewash prompts for this, coat, berries, feather and boots.

The theme at Art Journal Journey is also birds so I'm joining that too.

Fruit

Misty

 

Busy Bird

I drew this ink drawing in a large A3 sketchbook

then I chose a part of it

and painted it digitally on the computer

then I 'messed' about with it to make it it into a repeating pattern which could be used for fabric, gift wrap or wallpaper.

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Jellyfish and Postcard

I'm filling up quite a few sketchbooks with all this drawing practice, so I'm using one that I made way back in 2012. Some of the pages are brown, possibly recycled envelopes. The covers are stamped and painted, I used handmade rolling stamps, a tutorial can be found above. The ideas for the jellyfish were from the book '20 Ways to Draw a Cat and 44 other awesome animals' by Julia Kuo.

I used some of the jellyfish on this digital collage. The background was painted many years ago.

Also this week I have a digital postcard consisting of six layers.

I'm joining in with Paint Party Friday.

Gull

I used an app on my phone to alter this photo. The original is shown below.

Pages 31-34 from Sketchbook 60

I started the page with a bit of texture, I used one of my card cut outs as a stencil and mark maker.

The puffins were from a brochure

This bird was painted

The white areas are where I applied a resist [it was an old lip salve which i didn't like]. 

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Painted Dogs, Bird and Rainbow Pencil

Digitally painted, painted dogs

The bird was created on my tablet and cut out with my digital cutter [KNK Zing Air]

I used a multi-coloured pencil for this page in my sketchbook.

Then I went over it with water, don't know why as its not a water soluble pencil.

I used a fine liner pen to add marks following the direction of the pencil.

The bird was taken from an old greetings card.

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3D Printed Items

These are some of the items we have printed with the 3D printer. None of them have been designed by me, they were all found on the internet. I've painted them though which I found quite a challenge.

This is what the castle looked like before painting.

then after many attempts at painting - I wasn't keen on the colours on the previous attempts.

You can buy the plastic in different colours so they are not always brown to start with.

We have had a lot of spiders in the garden this year as you can see from this photo. [click on the photos for a closer look]

Bird on Vintage Letter

I painted the bird on my tablet then combined it with a digital vintage letter from Graphics Fairy

Ruby Redbreast

Android tablet art

Who's a Pretty Birdie?

The background was an old piece of work which I altered digitally. If I remember correctly it was a paper bag transfer on fabric, overlaid with a sheer fabric then free machine stitched. 

The bird is a picture from the Naturalist Library, a very old book.

Watch the Birdie

I painted the parrot above but the bird below was taken from a greetings card. The vintage image was from a cookery book, I gave it a bit of colour with paint.

Bird Applique

Layered background fabrics, applique, hand embroidery

Toucan

I copied an image from a brochure onto fabric and painted it with Koh-I-Noor watercolour paints. Then I used enhanced it with freehand machine stitching.

Dress Apron and Glass Bird

This is a design I did at college many years ago and I had it printed on a linen type fabric in a dress shape for a display. I found the sample recently and thought I would make it into an apron. I sewed it to a background fabric to make the sides a bit bigger. It isn't the best thing I've ever made and it certainly needs ironing!

 My sister and mother were staying last week so I didn't do a lot of creative work. We went around a garden centre with a big Christmas display and I saw this bird which I thought would be nice for any time of year hanging against the window with the light catching the shapes.

Sketchbook 48 - The Last Pages

The bottle was from a greetings card

The flowery bits were from a greetings card

The bird [body] was from a greetings card