Leaves and Honesty

The sketchbook challenge - Into the woods.

Background paper - oil pastels, wax crayons, metallic crayons, caran d'ache water soluble crayons, brusho inks.

Layered envelopes with real plants [painted] trapped under the envelope window, stitching.

I have some honesty plants in my garden and I thought this particular specimen looked more colourful than normal, the seed pods are tinged with pink.

C&G Artwork, Penguin Blanket

More C&G art work

Above - these are lino prints, inspired by the marks on a turtle. The marks are etched into the lino with a tool and then used with paint to print onto paper [or fabric]

The marks on this paper were made with cling film, acrylic paints and brusho

Rows of honesty seed pods glued to the paper

Watercolour painting

And another blanket made from knitted samples

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Altered Flower Book [p 32 -35]

painted pages, fabric print [my design] skeleton leaf, sweet paper flowers

painted pages, skeleton leaf, fabric screen print [my design] beads

painted pages, skeleton leaf, dyed honesty pods

painted pages, stencilled leaves, real leaf

Honesty Plants & Illustration Friday - Ahead

I found this honesty plant in my garden, they normally look good with seed pods but I thought this looked great without. A friend thought it looked like a work of art as it was. The photos don't do it justice I'm afraid.

This is my entry for the Illustration Friday challenge which is 'Ahead'

"Look out, there's an elephant ahead!"