Green Sketchbook Pages

Must have been in a green mood when I did these.

Stamped, Brusho, pen and ticket

Brusho, pen and posca pen

Stamped, Brusho, pen, white pen and collage [book page]

Digital Ladies

Digital creations done on a tablet. The dress was art created in a regular sketchbook and the face and background created from scratch on the tablet.

In sketchbook pro I used a pen and the mirror tool for the face above, both sides of the face are the same whereas I used a pen without the mirror tool for the face below and the features are uneven [probably more realistic though rather wonky in this case]

The background was from a sketchbook, the dress [looks like a curtain!] started as artwork and was altered on the tablet. The face created from scratch on the tablet.

Faces

I think I have improved a lot since I first started face painting ....but still a long way to go.

Pen, watercolour and a bit of collage on a couple of them.

The pages were curling when I was trying to photograph them

Six pages from Sketchbook 26 [Brusho]

Quick doodles and paintings from my sketchbook. I used Brusho colours for these - if you have not used Brusho's they come in powder form and are mixed with water. A little goes a long way but they do stain and being the messy person that I am, I usually have dirty fingers for a few hours. I make up little bottles ready to use, I find I don't make quite as much mess that way. 

 also pen and a collaged ticket

also an orange biro - cheers!

a biscuit cutter for the shape and wax crayon

I painted the flowers separately and collaged them on the background.  also used a pen, wax crayon and textured on the background and promarkers on the flowers.

More from my sketchbooks

I did the above after looking in an English Heritage magazine.

Below - more fantasy creatures I made up

and doodles of the heart

People Book [58,59]

Altered book, collage, found images and my drawings of people for practice. My husband couldn't tell who the drawing of the guy is supposed to be,{top, left} but my friend could, can you? [clue - he's been on the telly a lot recently]

People Book [54, 55, 56]

Altered book for people art,  found images & altered images

People Book [51,52]

Altered book for figure drawing practice, plus found images

People Book [50]

Altered book for figure drawing, collage, found image.

People Book [49]

Altered book, with drawings and found images

People Book [47] and Illustration Friday

People Book - altered book , drawings, found images

below - Illustration Friday challenge - surrender

People Book [46]

Altered book, drawings, collage

People Book [45]

Altered Book. All the people collaged to these pages are made from tags, tickets & other recycled bits.

People Book [43,44]

Altered book, drawings, collages, found images

People Book [42]

Altered book, drawing, collage, found images

People Book [40]

An altered book with drawings, collage etc

People Book [39]

Left - several figures cut in one go by folding the paper.

Right - people & a dress made from recycled photos

People Book [38]

It's a long since I posted something from my people book but I am still working on it now & then. I sometimes do a bit on one page then dart off to another page, so I don't always finish a page at once.

Do you notice the woman with the brown 'dress'? Well it's not a dress, it is actually a metal chastity belt and was used in medieval times. Women were locked into them so husbands insured that their wives remained faithful! Can you imagine wearing one? And I thought ST's were bad.

People Book [36,37]

Altered Book, drawings, collage

People Book [35] & Snow

Yesterday I saw the first snow of the season, & I was expecting another small flurry overnight but the snow was quite deep this morning. My hubby informs me that the last time we had snow this early in the year was 17 years ago. It doesn't seem 2 minutes since the long heavy snows of last winter. The snow looked very pretty on the branches of the trees [see bottom picture]