Ink Drawing with Chimp and Other Animals

Sketchbook 12, the last pages

The last pages from sketchbook 12.

All the backgrounds are watercolour, the top two have a wax resist too, probably made with a candle. I have used found images to collage.

this one has woven newspaper on the background

doodles drawn with black and white pens

wax crayon tree

the cat[s] tail hangs over the page edge. This one looks very crumpled, not glued very well at all.

Nail Buffer Stamp and Collages

Have you ever used nail buffers like the one above with the red background - don't throw them away when they are worn out - they can be used for mark making stamps. And four usable sides means four different patterns.  I used a 'dead' pen to score a pattern with, a craft knife to cut a pattern and make lines, and an awl for the dotty one.

More pages from sketchbook 12 - watercolour and wax backgrounds, found images

Swans, Cygnets, Sketchbook Pages, Button Gift

Before my daughter and husband got the train back to London we went to Herrington Park and we saw lots of swans, a pair of them had baby cygnets. But it was really cold.......

When I got back home I opened a lovely packet of buttons which had come from a blogging friend - Sherry. Check out her blog, she is always creating lovely things.

More pages from my big sketchbook - number 12

watercolour background and found images

 and all the rest are watercolour and wax candle background and found images

Bear Collages

No one was hurt in the making of this collage.

Watercolour and pen background, found [altered] images,

Like his new gnashers?

Watercolour and wax crayon background, found [altered] images

Watercolour and tippex background, found images

Watercolour, wax crayon, pen background, found [altered] images, pen

Yield [IF], Polar Birds and Tap Collages

Illustration Friday challenge this week is 'yield'.

Yield – to give up, as to superior power or authority - The pig has given up his sty to the giant frog

Below - Polar Birds - Collage/altered photographs, watercolour and white pen background, found images of polar bears and birds, white pen decoration on birds heads

Collage of found images/altered photographs

Forward [IF] and more Boat Pages

Illustration Friday challenge - Forward

I was in quilt mode when I did the above, just the painting though, I didn't get around to doing a quilt.  I did a series of polar bears and other wild animals.

Watercolours

Watercolours and collage

Pen, watercolours, collage

Pen background. The boats are made from painted papers and stitched

TAST and 3M

The stitch for Take a Stitch Tuesday is Feather Stitch. I've used a patchwork of vintage fabrics and transfer printed lace [not sure the green works]. This will be a page in a fabric journal eventually.

The Three Muses challenge is Animal Kingdom. This is a painting from one of my sketchbooks, I had quilting in mind when I did the background. I call him Snooty Bear.

Imaginary Animals Revisited [SC]

gone a bit crazy with the imaginary animals for the Sketchbook Challenge

Album and Hibernate

For the Take a Word challenge - Album

I thought  would create a stamp album. The stamps I already had and were hand created using a variety of paint techniques, collage etc [apart from the digital one the angel is holding], the album is made from a vintage postcard and the background was created from a photograph of some stonework.

For the Illustration Friday - Hibernate

I've recently painted a series of polar bear studies so I thought I would use one of those.

Watercolour Paint & fine liner

Polar Bears & Doormouse

Happy New Year

I may not get a chance to use the computer tomorrow so I thought I would wish everyone a very happy, creative and wonderful new year. Thanks for visiting and for all of your comments. Hope to see you next year!