Friday Catch Up 18Feb22

 Doodlewash Challenge

Athlete

Sushi

Hearts

Growth

Illustration Course - Playing with Wax

I've written on the first two pages what I used, click on image to expand

I'm linking with Paint Party Friday

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.

 

Crayon Monsters

A few weeks ago there was a contest for a fabric for crayon drawn monsters and these were some of the first drawings I did. I didn't really like any of them so I decided to use a handmade knitted primitive doll as a model.

And this is the resulting fabric

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]

Sketchbook 36, the first few pages

I started this book in May [8.5"x 6"], I used stencils for the shapes, they were in a children's book I got from Wilkinson's, a book full of stencils, cheap too.

I bought some Letraset Aquamarkers a couple of months ago and I got some more for a birthday present in May. This shows all the colours I have now. One end of the marker is thick and the other not as thick.

I've still not decided whether I like them or not, they're supposed to work like watercolours but they don't for me. Perhaps I need more practice.

Mixed media- wax crayons, watercolour, found image of tiger, letraset numbers.

I used the aquamarkers for this picture, the flower on the left is a real one.

Sketchbook 30 [Pages 83-89]

More pages from my moleskine sketchbook. I used wax crayons and watercolours for the girl.

I drew around an actual pair of scissors with a pen on top of a textured page and then painted with watercolours.

There are both pen and pencil drawings here and watercolours on a textured page.

Watercolour background, found image and I stamped it with a fun foam handmade stamp.

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.

Bear Collages

No one was hurt in the making of this collage.

Watercolour and pen background, found [altered] images,

Like his new gnashers?

Watercolour and wax crayon background, found [altered] images

Watercolour and tippex background, found images

Watercolour, wax crayon, pen background, found [altered] images, pen

Rabbit Collages and Cakes

Two bunny collages - watercolour and wax crayon backgrounds, found images of rabbits. The insect on the above was a later digital addition [from the Graphics Fairy]

Some of my arty friends came around today and Helen brought me and another friend a surprise gift each of a card and a dish of cakes she had made. Helen does not like cakes with sponge in them to eat herself, but she enjoys baking them, so aren't we the lucky ones. Don't they look lovely?