White Rhino

 I managed to do some new artwork, yeah. 

I thought I would continue in my book of endangered species.

White Rhino of Africa. There are two genetically different sub species - Northern and Southern.

As of March 2018 there are only two rhinos of the Northern [Kenya] species left and both are female.

I used pen, watercolours and oil pastels on watercolour paper.

I'm linking with Friday Face off

 

Friday Catch Up 11Mar22

 

I've started my final project for the illustration course that I am doing. For this I have chosen ten animals that are threatened and endangered and used in traditional medicine.

Alligator -Bamboo pen, ink, Neocolor, watercolour

Banteng - geometric shapes, aquamarkers

Tiger - coloured pencils, watercolour pencils, inktense pencils

Turtle- pen, watercolour

Pangolin -pen, watercolour

Zebrs - printed paper cut out on Zing [my design]

Elephant - oil pastels, neocolor

Sun bear -coloured pencils, watercolour pencils, inktense pensils

Deer - pen, watercolours

Rhino - pen, clay crayons, watercolours

Doodlewash

Beach

Cuckoo

It's Paint Party Friday which is finishing in a couple of weeks so visit while you can.

Sketchbook Revival Days 9 - 13

Day 9, session 1 with Susan Chiang

A Pear of Pears : Loose Watercolour Sketching

Day 9, session 2 with Este McLeod

Exploring Shapes by Printing and Stamping in Watercolour

Day 10, session 1 with Sarah Simon

Watercolour Techniques and a Leafy Wreath

Day 10, session 2 with Helen Hallows

Day and Night : Using the Rhythms of Nature to Inspire Flow in Your Mixed Media Sketchbook

Day 11, session 1 with Traci Bautista -

Creative Play: The Evolution of Ideas Through mark Making and Exploring Color

Day 13, session 1 with Koosje Koene - Lat's Play!

Wax crayons and watercolours.

As you can see, some of the sessions are missing. I did miss 3 out and the other results were not good enough to post.

 

Hummingbird and Seahorse

Day 1 & 2 February, a new month of challenges with Doodlewash

A Flowery Sketchbook Page

Drawn with pen in an A3 cartridge paper sketchbook then painted with watercolours. Some of the watercolours were Twinkling H20's which are iridescent watercolours although the sheen doesn't really show up on these photographs.

Pangolin

I've sent this postcard to the TAE19 call for artists to help raise funds for art in healthcare.

[Funds raised by TAE19 will enable Art in Healthcare to develop and extend their workshop programme to benefit more people within the healthcare system. All Art In Healthcare’s workshops bring the power of creativity to people in times of need whether in a hospital, care home, community health centre, hospice or any other health care setting. http://twitterartexhibit.org/call-for-artists/] Submission deadlines are not until the 29th April so you could send a postcard too if you liked.

I chose to draw a pangolin because they are the most traffiked mammals in the world. I'd recently seen a TV program about them which I found fascinating.

My first attempt to draw one was on the computer, which I then digitally painted.

 I wanted something a little different so did an ink drawing of it and painted it with bright watercolours. I liked this version but I thought the painting was very messy. I'd used bristol board which is good for drawing on but not so good for painting. So I drew another one and made patterns in ink as shown at the top of the page.

I'm linking with Paint Party Friday

SF Design A Day 13 -15

Day 15 - Designer's Choice - the prompt Sf has picked for the final is watercolor.

This design includes pen drawing, stamping and watercolor. Below you can see it as a repeating design and I'll enter this one into the competition.

I had another go at day 12, typographical. I used the canvas I posted about recently.

Day 13 - Kawaii [cute]

Day 14 - Found Object - I used some green chicken type wire. I created the background on my tablet.

Sketchbook challenge and more

This is a collage I did for the Sketchbook challenge - Cabinet of curiosities. For the background I used watercolours and all the images were found in magazines. 

I was going to add to this watercolour but I think I will use it as a background on a future digital arrangement.

The background is watercolour and wax crayon. The butterfly was drawn with a pen and coloured with promarkers, then collaged onto the background.

Crowns with umbrellas

These two are not my best efforts. 

The head was a found image of a planet and I used water soluble crayons for the quickly sketched face below.

Pages from Sketchbook 19

Pages from sketchbook 19 - mixed media

above - paint, pen, collage [found image]

above - paint, pen, collage [found image]

paint and pen

paint and pen

paint and pen

paint and found label

Faces, Lollypop Lady, Pendant and Brooch

Painted faces - their hats are found images, a crown, a plant pot, a vase and a kitchen pot.

This lollypop lady is made from an image of a real ice lollypop

I can't remember who these are 'supposed' to be! Does anybody recognize anyone?

More items in my misi shop

Art you can wear - A pendant and on either side there is a miniature collage of miniature papers

And an embroidered brooch