Iris Doodle and Alterations

The original doodle is top left and the others were altered in Paint.net

Illustration Friday & Doodle

The Illustration Friday challenge this week is 'Beginner'

Mummy bird is watching baby bird on his first flight.

Below - another doodle from a sketchbook.

Doodles with altered versions

 More doodles that I have altered using Paint.net. The original brush pen drawing above and the 2 altered versions below.

 Another original doodle and an altered version below it.

Branches, Birds & Bag

I seem to be be just posting pictures of my doodles or sketches at the moment. But that is because that is all I seem to be doing at the moment, and some of those are from last year. I haven't done anything very creative recently such as collage, printing [getting my hands dirty], altered books, embroidery and I'm missing it. One problem is that I don't know what to do/make, my creativeness seems to be almost at a standstill. I did start an idea for an illustrated book but that seems to have come to a stop too. There have been a few changes at home so maybe this has something to do with it, perhaps when things have settled down a bit something will spark an idea off. The only slightly creative thing I have done recently was the making of this bag, but it was made from purchased upholstery fabric I have had for years.

Lesson & Doodles

A couple of doodles above and for the Illustration Friday challenge - Lesson - I did the picture below in pen & watercolours

Out and About

You may or may not have noticed but I have not posted any blogs for a while as my daughter and husband came up for a visit. We had a lovely time and went to a few different places and saw things such as the door knocker above at Durham Cathedral. We saw the strange creature below at the Hancock Museum in Newcastle. The museum had changed a lot since I last went, there is now a large model of Hadrian's Wall.

Another day we went to Tynemouth where there is a castle on the cliff top.

After visiting Tynemouth we went further up the coast to St. Mary's Island

On the day before leaving us, we went to Kielder Water & Forest Park. The park has a lot of sculptures to see, some better than others. The viewpoint below looked like a boring shiny yellow shed from a distance but was very interesting once we got to it.

We also liked 'Mirage' below. Five hundred pairs of shiny discs hang high in the trees, reflecting light and glittering.

And the weather was good, stayed sunny & dry, I'll not say it was hot as it was quite cool at times, but it was great for April. If you want to see more I will be putting some photos on Flickr.

Doodle and Alterations

 Below are experiments using Paint.NET. I started out with the doodle above drawn with felt tips

 These two remind me of a quilt

 After the last alteration above and I used another page of drawings on top as a background.

Hare & Watch out Birds there is a Snake about

Robin & Decorated Hearts

Beaver & Sea Scene

Above is a quick beaver sketch.

I did a similar doodle to the one below for the sketchbook project, but this one is the original. Click here to see the other version.

Pen Drawings

Croc n' Frog Collage

I've been doing collage for many years, in various forms, but seeing the work of Elizabeth St Hilaire Nelson inspired me to create this picture. The background is an acrylic painted canvas and the animals are created using torn pieces of paper [after being painted] - my own prints, pages from books, music etc

The canvas was painted before adding the paper [below]. I was a bit nervous about adding the paper as I like the painting without it and I did make a bit of a mess with the glue and had to repaint some of the background [I'm very messy with glue]

The original drawing in my sketchbook is below [brush pens]. I used this for one of the Illustration Challenges [warning]

Which version do you prefer?

Illustration Friday & Doodle Pattern

doodle pattern [pens, felt tips, etc]

Illustration Friday challenge

this weeks word is 'Journey'

I started one, thought of something else which I did, then went back to the first one, so I have two attempts for this challenge.

The elephant I had lying around in my stash, it was painted with acrylics and the texture was a result of using a handmade rolling stamp. The cases I did yesterday with brush pens and the background is watercolour and pen. All collaged together with the addition of ribbon around the cases & elephant.

For the picture below I used pen, brush pens and watercolours.