Friday, 1 April 2022

Doodlewash and Sketchbook Revival

 Doodlewash Challenge

Hare


Tadpoles

Sketchbook Revival 2022 with Karen Abend

Text below copied from emails [my hands are hurting too much to write about it]

DAY 1 SESSION 1 - COURTNEY CERRUTI
Sketchbook Play: Exercises to Ignite your Creative Practice 
Warm up with color mixing and discover what can happen when you simply let the natural beauty and playfulness of color be the starting point for your sketchbook practice.
Get out your dip pen and ink (or any other drawing tool) for a series of quick and freeing exercises that make linework practice the perfect compliment to your color play. 



DAY 1 SESSION 2 - CARLA SONHEIM
Zoom Stylized Portraits 
Prep your page with a painted background, then draw the face you are observing as a reference to get down the lines, shapes and interesting details you see, simplifying as you go.
Fill up your page with additional portraits (at least 6!), and then try out some interesting techniques for enhancing, harmonizing and finishing your drawings with coloured pencils and a white paint pen. 



DAY 1 SESSION 2 - MIRIAM SCHULMAN
Artpreneur Affirmations
Sketch out your hand lettered affirmation and basic design in pencil, then ink your final lines with a waterproof black pen.
Experiment with a limited color palette (just 2 colors of paint) and see how you can develop a harmonious balance of mixes ranging from lovely lights, to rich darks, plus new shades from combining the two.



DAY 2 SESSION 2 - LUCIA LEYFIELD
Be Free and Have Fun: How to Loosen Up Your Sketchbook Drawings!
Start with a sketchbook tour to see examples of how both life and memory drawing has a place in any sketchbook or visual journal.
Be guided through a series of quick and freeing timed drawing exercises that alternate drawing from life and memory to experience the power of this practice.






This is what I was trying to draw. The drawings with memory written on them is when I wasn't looking at the cup, it was covered over so I couldn't cheat. The drawings were timed too.



DAY 3 SESSION 1 - JOY TING
Mixed Media Floral Studies 
Get started with some quick and easy thumbnail studies of your bouquet to try out different compositions and warm up with loose sketching, painting, color swatching and note taking.
Take what you learned to a full page in your sketchbook combining expressive drawing and painting with adding definition and interest to the flower and leaf elements using different shades of paint and fun marks.







Tuesday, 29 March 2022

Pangolins

 Two pages from my Illustration Book about the endangered pangolin.

Click on the image to read about the pangolin

Pen, watercolour

Pen, metallic pastels, watercolour pencils

Black ink applied with bamboo pen, coloured inks [Dr Ph Martin's Bombay India Inks]

Top - Sharpie, Bottom - Biro pen


Doodlewash Challenge

Glassy

Grass and Insect





Saturday, 26 March 2022

Saturday Catch Up 26Mar22

 
I was having computer problems yesterday so couldn't do my usual Friday Catch Up.

Doodlewash

Pizza

Catkins

Bird table

Cactus
Clouds, Pond life, Dandelion, Hatchling




Tulip
Sowing

Dolphins

Snack




Saturday, 19 March 2022

Friday [Saturday 19Mar22] Catch Up

 More pages from my illustration course, this is the final book for the course, although I am still doing more pages. I am using a handmade watercolour book.








It's the last Paint Party Friday




Tuesday, 15 March 2022

Tuesday 15March22 Post

 Doodlewash Challenge

Vacuum cleaner

Platypus - 2 attempts


Cartoon

Brown bear

Rainbow

Painted Skirt
I don't know if anyone remembers but a couple of years ago I painted flowers on a skirt, they were really bright. When I washed it however the flowers faded considerably. I wore it again but when it was ready for washing I thought all that paining might disappear. So I have hand stitched around everything using running stitch and backstitch mainly. I washed it afterwards, I don't think the painting faded this time after all.