Winter Wonderland

My entry for Thursday TreeLove 142

These are not recent photos, in fact they are from 2103 but we've had some snow falling over the last few days and it was a reminder of these snowy trees at Sunniside, Newcastle upon Tyne.

 I think the snow has almost gone now in this part of the UK 

 

Bolam Lake

 My entry for Thursday TreeLove

Autumn Trees

 

We had a lovely walk around Bolam Lake today in Northumberland, UK 

This tree in the water had some interesting ridges on its bark and there was a mass of autumn leaves next to it., gorgeous colours of Autumn.

My entry for Thursday TreeLove 137

Trees, Birds, Mushrooms and Flowers

For my inspiration I've been going through the book '20 Ways to Draw a Tree and 44 Other Nifty Things from Nature' by Eloise Renouf

The sketchbook pages are 15cm square.

Rabbits at Alnwick

These lovely trees and flowers were at Alnwick Gardens.

And there were lots of cherry trees in bloom.

Rabbit drawing practice.

Gelli Prints Revisited

In December I did some Gelli prints that I was a bit disappointed with [see here] to be honest, but I've used them here as digital backgrounds. The trees, bird, hippo and shapes are all older work, I had previously created them for use with my cutting machine.  

I'm joining in with Paint Party Friday, are you?

Happy New Year

Happy New Year

I've just spent a few days in Malaga, Spain, had a great time but came back with a heavy cold.

These were some of the decorations and Christmas lights there and below that are a couple of unusual trees.

SC - Trees

The sketchbook challenge theme this month is trees.

These were all drawn on my tablet, I used Photoshop Touch [above] and Autodesk Sketchbook Pro [below] on a Samsung Galaxy Note Pro.

I drew a simple line tree... then added a bit of colour

..and a bit more

Drawn on my tablet. 

I used the mirror tool in Autodesk Sketchbook Pro, whatever you draw on one side is magically drawn on the other side, a mirror image.

Six Ways to Draw a Tree

I drew these trees on my tablet a few weeks ago. I got the shape ideas from a book I had been given called '20 ways to draw a tree' by Eloise Renouf. It shows you ways of drawing trees and also 40 other things in nature - great if you are stuck for ideas and ways to draw things.

Gray Day

Alone in the Woods

Bendy Trees

tablet art

Trees

Made up trees above and the tree below is my version of a Dragon Blood tree, the flowers are my creations.

Created on a tablet.

Into the Woods

The Sketchbook Challenge - Into the woods.

above - collaged page from book, collaged leaves - these are real leaves but painted, I used them for leaf printing with last year. The white lacy areas were made with a roll of decorative tape - I stuck it down, painted over it with brusho inks then removed the tape.

I used more of the decorative tape to act as a resist for this picture too. The tape was from the £ shop - 3 for a £1, it leaves the paper very sticky after removing it but I find that sprinkling a little talc over it eliminates the problem. The tree was made from book pages, overlapped and stuck together. I painted over the tree before sticking down to background.

This was the picture after sticking the tree to the background. I then applied various crayons - wax, metallic. I painted over the whole page with black brusho.

Trees - Mixed Media

Inspired by the challenge set by the sketchbook challenge - Into the woods.

I used recycled envelopes for the tree branches and bits of ripped up envelope and wrapping paper confined under the window of an envelope. To colour I used Brusho inks and wax crayons.

Another photo of this page and the window area looks blank.

I collaged a page from a vintage book into the sketchbook [this is a long sketchbook- 16" x 7.5"].

I drew the trees with wax crayons and then over painted with Brusho inks.

Click on the images to see a closer view of the texture

I went to Washington Old Hall [UK] last week with my friends, I liked the view of the hall behind these plants [I'm not sure what the plants are]