Dogs, Eggs and Hare

Altered book [Altered Somerset Studio art journal calendar from 2003]

Painted and stamped backgrounds, collage, found images of dogs, eggs from a greetings card, homemade stamp of hare

Handmade Book - Pages 107-112

The final pages of sketchbook 45.

Handmade sketchbook made up of painted, stamped, and inkjet printed pages.

Decorated with drawings, reused envelopes, magazines, recycled greetings cards, cuts and waste from cutting machine, labels etc

Mona Collage

I did this with the sketchbook challenge in mind which is 'sketching with collage.'

Actually I didn't sketch any of the parts so I don't know that it will qualify for that particular challenge. I did paint the background though with aquamarkers and posca pens. I'd been having a clear out of old art magazines and I thought I would use some of the images.

Two pictures

One mixed media collage from a sketchbook above.

Brusho, found images from a vintage book, aquamarkers.

And one digital collage created on a tablet. I used the brushes in the sketchbook pro app for the backgrounds, but the patterns on the clothes were my worked my me, altered photos, you can tell his top was originally knitting.

The last pages of Sketchbook 24

Oodles of doodles

watercolour background, pen drawing [leaves], the orange urn and the blue pattern at the top and bottom were from a piece of packaging from Rhodes

pen drawing, watercolour over applied texture, the bird drawing was glued on

watercolour on textured background, collage - bird drawing, the orange part was from a piece of packaging from Rhodes

pen drawing, watercolour background, collage the orange parts were also from a piece of packaging from Rhodes

watercolour sky, pen drawing, the green part of the tree was a found image [not a tree], the large green area was made up of cut out squares - they were parts of pictures of art work in a magazine

the orange and blue parts are the packaging from Rhodes again, I've applied watercolour and drew the doodles/zentangles on with a pen

pen drawing

Seven Day/One Magazine Challenge

I did these collages for a 7 day/one magazine challenge, that is one collage a day for seven days using the same magazine. Click on the images to enlarge.

I used an old house magazine, unfortunately most of the images were beds or kitchens so I found it a real challenge to make seven collages, some have few images so I painted the backgrounds.

On the top collage I found circular items and collaged them to a painted page. The only images I used on the one below are the bird and bath [nest], also on a painted background.

I found a few more images for this collage, again on a painted background.

Book related images were used on the one below, also a painted background.

Love was the theme for this collage.

I made 'people/creatures' from the images for this one on striped background.

No paint on the one below, just images.

I'm taking part in the Art Every Day for a month challenge too so I hope the above will make up for the missing days.

Sketchbook challenge and more

This is a collage I did for the Sketchbook challenge - Cabinet of curiosities. For the background I used watercolours and all the images were found in magazines. 

I was going to add to this watercolour but I think I will use it as a background on a future digital arrangement.

The background is watercolour and wax crayon. The butterfly was drawn with a pen and coloured with promarkers, then collaged onto the background.

Crowns with umbrellas

These two are not my best efforts. 

The head was a found image of a planet and I used water soluble crayons for the quickly sketched face below.

Pages from Sketchbook 19

Pages from sketchbook 19 - mixed media

above - paint, pen, collage [found image]

above - paint, pen, collage [found image]

paint and pen

paint and pen

paint and pen

paint and found label

Last pages from Sketchbook 16

It's a funny old day today, it seems to be cold one minute and hot the next. This morning I was sat outside drinking coffee, this afternoon I was picking hail stones off the bed! They had blown in through the open window while we were having a windy deluge and thunder and lightning. It is sunny again now.

I added texture to the pages by transferring parts of a newspaper supplement page with a glue stick, by pulling it off before it is stuck properly. This leaves a trace of the page which I painted over with watercolours. I used a pen to draw on the houses and trees.

Wax crayons, watercolours, pen text and found images

textured page, watercolours, and pen drawing

textured page, watercolours, found images outlined with pen 

textured page, watercolours, pen drawing, found images

Sketchbook 16 pages 133-143

Textured background and watercolours, pen drawing and collaged found images

The one above is just texture transfer and watercolour

The chickens are pen drawings