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Collages and Painting

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I have been gradually adding more to my sketchbook pages. Some of them I worked into with more paint, ink pens and colored pencils and others I added more paper elements.

The photo on the left shows the original stamped version. Then, on the right I added some dark elements with white highlights and some red highlights.

 

Again, the photo on the left was the original after stamping. Here it is after I added Inktense pencils, sprayed with water and then added darker elements with ink markers. Not sure if this one is finished yet. I thought it might benefit from a bit of black pen.

sketchbook green cracked wall

I’m not sure if I showed this one before. The green is screen printed with inks. I colored in the background and outlined with orange marker. The scanner has trouble picking up the subtleties of the screen printing process.

sketchbook blue starfish

This is a star that I had stenciled on to another color of paper. I cut it out and glued it in place. I’m sure I could do more with this but I kind of like the simplicity.

sketchbook blue circles

This last one is circles printed on to the paper with thickened dye and then rinsed out. The darker ones on top were cut from another page that didn’t get rinsed. This might benefit from some orange highlights.

 

I hope you have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by!

Sketch While You Wait

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I was waiting this morning while my husband underwent a procedure. So I took a long my sketchbook, Inktense pencils and a water pen.

Mountain Orchid

This is a sketch of a Mountain Orchid from a photo my sister took while she was here. It’s also known as a lady slipper. I worked on this sketch for several days and had painted the center portion with white acrylic paint so that it would cover the background green. These are really cool flowers and I like how the sketch came out. I think it would be cool to try to felt one of these flowers in gigantic size compared to the real flowers.

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Here’s the photo of the flower. I now see some details that I didn’t get into the sketch and the scanner didn’t catch all the shading I did on the white part of the flower.

Purple Flower

Here’s the second sketch I worked on today. This was quite a complicated flower but once I got started it wasn’t that hard to recreate. I can never remember what these are called but I have them in my front flower beds. They spread like crazy and take over but the deer don’t eat them so that works for me. In case you’re wondering, my husband is doing well. Have a great weekend!

Sketch Book Pages

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I’ve been working in my sketchbook when I get a few minutes. I have been trying to do some “layering” of different techniques.

Sketchbook Red Flowers

This one has been painted, printed and then I used colored pencils to better define the flower shapes.

Sketchbook Blue Flowers

The photo on this one is one my sister Margaret took by our house while she was here. I stenciled on the little blue flowers and then used Inktense pencils and permanent marker to draw the larger blue flower.

Sketchbook Orange Flowers

This one is another photo by Margaret and then the rest is paint.

Sketchbook Marbles

I painted the background first on this page and then silk screened purple ink through a screen that was made from a photo of marbles in a vase. I then added colored pencil. I think I will add more to this but haven’t decided what yet.

Sketchbook Layers

This last page has several different layers including paint on the first layer, then silk screened dark green ink followed by a layer of light gesso. I then put more color back into the background with colored pencils. Again, I think I will add more to this one but not sure what yet.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a good weekend.

More Sketch Book Work

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I worked on more sketch book pages and backgrounds today. I also did a bit of felting but I’ll show you that on the Felting and Fiber Studio site soon. I printed out some of the photos that my sister Margaret and I took while she was here. There are of wildflowers and I want to work on sketching the flowers and developing further designs.

I also played around with some acrylic inks, acrylic flow release and rubbing alcohol.

Sketch Book Page

I’m not sure I can tell what the flow release does. I will have to play around with it some more. Has anyone else used it?

Sketchbook Page

These last two photos are using the rubbing alcohol. I painted first and then while the paint was still wet, I dropped alcohol onto the paint. It causes a kind of resist effect.

Sketch Book Page

I really like this effect. It’s the rubbing alcohol again but instead of drops, I squeezed it in a stream across the page. It’s always fun playing with different color combinations and paint techniques. Have a good weekend!