Sketchbook No 9 - p1, 3, 5, 7

More pages from sketchbook 9

brush pen drawings

Sketchbook No 8, p18, 19 and digital alterations

original doodle above, digitally coloured below

Below - doodle digitally altered

Sketchbook No 8, p12 & 17, IF - Remedy

below - Illustration Friday - Remedy

When you are a mermaid and feeling {and looking} blue the only remedy to make you feel better is a nice bouquet of seaweed

Hero and Leaf Pattern

King Frog and Chameleon

These are mostly brush pen sketches with a little collage of found images ie the frog head & hands [above]

and the chameleons head [below]

Hare & Watch out Birds there is a Snake about

Fiber Arts/Mixed Media & Sketchbook Challenge challenges

I did this picture for the Fiber Arts/Mixed Media challenge - 'Goin Global'. All the papers were hand painted, then I've enhanced with machine stitching.

The picture below is another one for the Sketchbook Challenge - 'Branching Out - On a Limb'

I've done some digital variations of this which can be seen on Flickr

Brush pens

Illustration Friday & Toys T-party

The theme for Illustration Friday this week is 'Toy'

above - pen, brush pens, background digital colouring

doodles below would also fit the theme - toys at a t-party

A couple of strange doodles

Basil Sketch

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

Sandstone & Stalagmites

Colorado Sandstone -  my interpretation of a photograph done when I was working on the 'layers' project [brush pens, felt tips]

I used a photograph of stalagmites & stalacites for this one too

Leafy Sea Dragon Sketch etc & Illustration Friday - Artificial

Pen sketches above of jellyfish, mantid, leafysea dragon etc and below is my picture for the Illustration Friday challenge - Artificial

The petals are from an artificial flower, they also have a sequin & bead in the centre. The background paper has a bit of collaged newspaper and it's been painted and stamped [hand made stamps of course]. I had dipped the flowers in dye some time ago but I ended up with pink fingers as the colour had not been 'set'. I cropped the work but I think I prefer it before cropping, see the bottom picture.

Another slithering snake

Mushrooms

one from my doodle book, very bright aren't they?

Happy Face

It was sunny today & I spent some time in the garden

Snowmen Sketches

My initial snowman sketch [above] which I altered [below] before doing the embroidery shown in my last post [Winter Wonderland]

Sewing Sketch

did a bit of 'normal' sewing yesterday, made a cushion cover - didn't go too well though, one of those days!

Panda

Panda - one from a sketchbook

Fairy's and Butterflies

Another doodle from a sketch book - various kinds of pens

Seahorse

pens & watercolours