Plant Collage and SC20

A collage from a sketchbook.

and the final prompt for the spoonchallenge - selfie [not a good likeness]

The spoonchallenge was a 30 day drawing challenge, although we only got 20 prompts...weekends free.

The Looking Plant

Herbs in Bottles

Drawn on my tablet. I got the general idea from a picture in a magazine, plants in bottles [maybe herbs in oil?]. These have my own kind of made up plants in them.

Berry Nice

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

Droopy Plant

A digital collage created on a tablet.

Pages from Sketchbook 30

I drew around some card packaging for the faces, it had holes in - just right for the eyes.

I used promarker pens for the colour on these pages of this moleskine sketchbook

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 - the next 8 pages

The background is watercolour, then a found image and on top is a print of my leaf photographs on embossing paper. [I cut around the leaves] 

textured watercolour, funny drawing and found images

watercolour, found images and drawing of flowers

watercolour and texture, the flowers were made from wrapping paper, recycled of course and pen marks

watercolour and texture with real leaves

watercolour and texture, found images

watercolour and texture, real plant

watercolour and texture, found image

Lion Collage

A digital collage made up from a stamped and painted background, a drawing of leafy plants, a photograph of a lion sculpture and a drawing of a flower.

Basil Sketch

Another pen sketch from a magazine photograph - a small basil plant in a pot

The Hungry Caterpillars

I noticed a skeleton leaf on one of my plants the other day. I picked it because it looked so pretty and I was going to 'do' something creative with it - I haven't yet. Today I found out what was causing it - these very hungry caterpillars.

Some more skeleton leaves, although not as pretty as the one I picked.

aloe vera cactus

When i first saw one of these plants I couldn't see the bottom of it & I thought it was an exotic tree. It is, I was told, a cactus plant - an aloe vera. Seen in France [Port Leucate]

Alien creature or flower?

I've never been to the Chelsea flower show - I would like to. I saw this plant in San Francisco, it looks like an alien creature.