Pages from Sketchbook 26

I've textured all the pages first with newspaper/magazine transfer, then applied watercolour over. I used liner pen, brush pens and promarker pens for the drawings on top.

Pages from sketchbook 26

I've had my mum staying this week so I've not got much to show you. These are pages from sketchbook 26,

most will be used as backgrounds. I added faces and buttons to the picture above digitally, I used a biscuit cutter for the body shape to draw around.

Background Textures

More pages from sketchbook 26 - I will use these for backgrounds.

New Sketchbook

The start of a new sketchbook - number 26

These pages are mainly textures for backgrounds. I have them on the computer now for digital art but I may add more to the actual sketchbook pages in the future.

I've textured the pages with newspaper supplements and magazines and a glue stick, some are more successful than others depending on the type of paper [very glossy does not work]. Glue a snippet to the page for a few seconds then whip it off, when it works some of the text or image is transferred to the sketch page. I've used watercolours on the top and pen on a couple of them.

Seven Day/One Magazine Challenge

I did these collages for a 7 day/one magazine challenge, that is one collage a day for seven days using the same magazine. Click on the images to enlarge.

I used an old house magazine, unfortunately most of the images were beds or kitchens so I found it a real challenge to make seven collages, some have few images so I painted the backgrounds.

On the top collage I found circular items and collaged them to a painted page. The only images I used on the one below are the bird and bath [nest], also on a painted background.

I found a few more images for this collage, again on a painted background.

Book related images were used on the one below, also a painted background.

Love was the theme for this collage.

I made 'people/creatures' from the images for this one on striped background.

No paint on the one below, just images.

I'm taking part in the Art Every Day for a month challenge too so I hope the above will make up for the missing days.

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 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.

More animal collages from Sketchbook 12

watercolour backgrounds, found images, some altered