Small Animal Paintings

I've done nothing new this week as I've been away in Rhodes so I'm posting these paintings from my little 4 inch square sketchbook

I've just got back in time for Paint Party Friday

Imaginary Animals Revisited [SC]

gone a bit crazy with the imaginary animals for the Sketchbook Challenge

Croc n' Frog Collage

I've been doing collage for many years, in various forms, but seeing the work of Elizabeth St Hilaire Nelson inspired me to create this picture. The background is an acrylic painted canvas and the animals are created using torn pieces of paper [after being painted] - my own prints, pages from books, music etc

The canvas was painted before adding the paper [below]. I was a bit nervous about adding the paper as I like the painting without it and I did make a bit of a mess with the glue and had to repaint some of the background [I'm very messy with glue]

The original drawing in my sketchbook is below [brush pens]. I used this for one of the Illustration Challenges [warning]

Which version do you prefer?

Illustration Friday & Watered Print

Above is my Illustration Friday entry for 'Warning'

 From time to time I have printer problems and when I am trying to get it to work properly I print off a page with bright squares and things, below is one of these kind of prints on glossy photo paper. Afterwards I decided to put water on it, left it a while to see what would happen, I like the effect.