Oak Leaves

These oak leaves were enormous.

FOTD

 

Autumn Trees

 

We had a lovely walk around Bolam Lake today in Northumberland, UK 

This tree in the water had some interesting ridges on its bark and there was a mass of autumn leaves next to it., gorgeous colours of Autumn.

My entry for Thursday TreeLove 137

Ferns, Leaves, Acorns, Pinecones, Berries, Herbs

Sometimes I cannot think what to draw so to give my creativity a boost I have been going through the book '20 Ways to Draw a Tree and 44 Other Nifty Things from Nature' by Eloise Renouf

My sketchbook pages are 15cm square.

Happy Paint Party Friday

Negative Painting

I love the negative paintings by Sue Davis and was inspired to have a go. On a negative painting the background is painted first and then one paints around the object [the white area in my picture] rather than painting the object itself. I painted the canvas with dark green and used handmade stamps and stencils in bright colours for the details. I painted two coats of white paint on top and was debating as to whether to give it another coat but decided to leave it at that.

Happy Paint Party Friday

More Leaves

More ink and watercolour drawings in my sketchbook

And some real leaves I saw the other day, they were very frosty leaves but it doesn't show up very well on the photo

Leaves

A real skeleton leaf found in the garden

40 Week Drawing Challenge - 20-25

Growing.........

Leafy Fabrics

Fall leaves - 8" swatch basic combed cotton. The print is actually more of a brown colour in the background than the swatch above shows [on my monitor anyway]

the design originates from leaf printing

below is what the repeat would look like

Autumn leaves - 8" basic combed cotton swatch and below shows what the repeat would look like.

Fabric shop

Easter Rabbits

Above- from a sketchbook, collaged painted leaves, the rabbit was drawn on fabric. Brusho, aquamarkers, posca pens.

Below - created on my tablet, a few of my drawings layered together.

Floral

All created on my tablet [Samsung Galaxy Note]

Berry Nice

Can you tell I still love using the mirror image tool in sketchbook pro?

Birds on Leaves

Created on a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 with sketchbook pro

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.