Fish and Galaxy

Two more Doodlewash Challenges

Fish

Galaxy

I was experimenting with watercolours on watercolour paper and a few posca pens before I read the challenge - galaxy,  but I thought it would fit the bill.

Lapwing Collage

Collage on canvas 60 cm x 60 cm

Painted canvas, painted papers such as book pages, hand decorated papers, inkjet prints, found papers such as maps, sharpie pen, white pen, markers and a layer of acrylic wax.

I'm linking with Paint Party Friday

Ink Drawing with Chimp and Other Animals

Fishy

A painting in my large A3 sketchbook.

The ink drawing before painting it.

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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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Fish Drawings

I wanted to refresh my drawing skills so thought I would copy all the drawings in the book '20 Ways to Draw a Cat and 44 other awesome animals' by Julia Kuo. I have used this book in the past but have usually copied the easy looking drawings or the ones that appealed to me most. As a challenge I am aiming to draw all the animals in the book even if they look complicated.

Spoonflower Swatches

I've got some new swatches from Spoonflower, here are the first three.

the animals of the ocean - these are 8" swatches so only show part of the design but you can see the full pattern below. See it in yards at Spoonflower.

explosion

tendrils [I'm never sure what to call these patterns]

Pages from Sketchbook 60

Cuts, Drawing and Fabric Design

I've not posted much recently as I've had visitors staying so I'm catching up with a few things. First two cut patterns which I created [on a tablet] then cut on my digital cutting machine.

Below - I thought the pattern left on the board after 'weeding' the fish was interesting ie, the pieces taken out.

A try out of some pencils a friend gave me, aren't they big?

This is the fabric pattern I have entered in the Spoonflower 1920's design challenge this week.

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Fish, Pattern and Cut Work Birds

The vintage fish picture is from the Naturalist Library, the lady from a vintage book of women apart from her head which I drew.

The pattern was created on my tablet.

I created the birds for my cutting machine, [KNK Zing Air] the bird on the left needs altering slightly as the eye was not joined to anything so fell out. I also ripped it a little when removing form the mat.