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

Circles

More pictures with circles for the sketchbook challenge

Oh and the rabbit from yesterday - his face is part of an old slipper, washed of course. So he's nearly all made from footwear.

Sketchbook 16 pages 133-143

Textured background and watercolours, pen drawing and collaged found images

The one above is just texture transfer and watercolour

The chickens are pen drawings

Feathers in the Sky and more pages from my sketchbook

There were some interesting things in the sky yesterday. I could hear a lot of planes - the Sunderland Air Show was on - but I also saw these feathers in the sky, well clouds but they look like feathers. Click on the images to enlarge.

More pages from sketchbook 16

There were also a lot of bees and wasps flying around yesterday too, but I only saw one like this.

Collage - sketchbook and tags

watercolour, pen drawings, found images

watercolour, image transfer

watercolour, pen drawing, found images

watercolour, pen drawings, found images

watercolour

watercolour, image/newsprint texture transfer

collaged tags using art work

Collage - Sketchbook 16 pages79-89

texture, watercolour, pen, found images

texture, watercolour, found image, plastic wrap

texture, watercolour, pen

texture, watercolour, found images

texture, watercolour, found images

texture, watercolour, found images, real jewellery

Sketchbook 16 - Weird Collages

All are textured and coloured with watercolour paints, and collaged with found images

[click on images to enlarge]

the flowers are made from cut out paper coloured with wax crayons

pen drawn flowers at the bottom

Sketchbook 16 - 6 more pages

watercolour, found and altered images, real flower

crumpled paper texture, watercolour, found images

punched paper used in a mechanical music organ, watercolour, found image

texture, watercolour, pens

texture form magazine, watercolour, found image

texture, watercolour, pen drawing

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