Faces and Potato Heads

watercolours

On my last birthday I received a potato head card which included sticky backed features that you could choose and place on the card where you liked. There was a surplus of  bits which I have used on my own potato head shapes for these pictures. I like the wild woman the most.

The picture and creatures below were created from the shapes left after the stickers were removed.

This weeks Illustration Friday challenge is 'scattered'. I used an older drawing but have altered it digitally and scattered shapes from the trees onto the ground, like leaves. Topical too as this is what is happening outside at the moment, that is leaves falling from the trees not shapes.

I said a few weeks ago that I had a sort out in the loft and some of the things I found were from my City & Guilds embroidery course. I've enjoyed looking through the stuff, quite funny some of it like this plate of cakes. We were given the bronze coloured metallic scourer to do something creative with and I came up with cakes.

Another strange item was this, can you guess what it is before I tell you?

there are lots of fabric strands..... and beads, sequins and some paper beads too

not forgetting embroidery

Below is a photograph, its not a very good picture as it is a photo of an old photo. But it is a seaweed covered rock, and that was my inspiration for the above piece. Did you guess?

Pen Comparisons and Shape Doodle

 Earlier this year I bought an assortment of fine liners and did a similar drawing with each to compare them [above].

I repeated the exercise again recently [below]. 

Some of the pens don't work at all well although I have used some more than others. Having said that the two that don't work went like that very quickly although I wonder if the paper has spoilt the nibs, rather than the ink being all gone as they feel very scratchy. One of the Edding {1800 drawliner 0.05} has gone like that but the other Edding {1800 profipen 0.01} I like very much and is still working fine. I've not used the Pental Ultra Fine as much as the others as it produces a thicker line but it is smooth.

I doodle using a number stencil - a personal shape challenge