Uniball eye pens on heavyweight cartridge paper (acid free). Coloured using Chameleon Color Tones marker pens.
Today is #wipwednesday over on #angelaporterscoloringbookfans facebook group.
Eerie Entangled Art, Entangled Butterflies and A Dangle A Day are new books from me that are available to pre-order now.
This drawing is all but finished. I just have to decide whether I’m going to add any metallic or iridescent highlights to it, along with any extra shading.
The background was created by using a stencil brush to apply Distress Oxide inks onto Daler-Rowney Mixed media paper (A4 in size) until I was happy with the colours.
Next, I sprayed the sheet with water and let it dry. This lets the Distress Oxide inks ‘bloom’ and become ‘soft’ as well as creates some texture in the form of patterns where the water droplets landed.
Pitt artist pens from Faber-Castell were used to draw in the main design, to which I then intensified the colour in many areas to add depth and interest; I used Derwent’s Inktense pencils to do this, along with a Kuretake water brush.
Finally, I added the fine details and patterns with a really fine Pitt artist pen.
It has been a while since I last made a post to my blog.
I have been struggling with vagueness and lack of focus with the medication I’m taking, and this one I’m on now doesn’t suit either. As well as the vagueness, I’m constantly on edge and fidgety, and the medication is supposed to treat that not cause it. Have to give it a couple more weeks before it’ll be changed though. I’m still away from work as a result.
In spite of all of this I’ve still been busy with art, though the focus for the projects I’m involved in has been lacking at times, but just ‘doodling’ with no constraints or requirements does help me settle a little and also is something I can do that doesn’t need that focus.
In the summer I signed contracts to do the artwork for two books linked to art therapy. In the last week I was approached by another company to do one book for them in the first instance, and if it goes well then there could be a whole series of them. My hope is that I’ll have enough contracts and work lined up that I can go kind of part time at work. That won’t be for a while and I need to get myself better first, but the part time may be a way of helping me remain ‘better’ in the future. Time will tell.
Approx. 15cm x 20cm (6″ x 8″). Rotring Rapidograph pen on white cartridge paper.
Approx. 8.25″ x 5.25″ (13cm x 21cm). Drawn using Rotring Rapidograph pens with black ink on white cartridge paper.
Approx 5″ x8″ (12.5cm x 20.5cm). Drawn using Rotring Rapidograph pens with black ink on white cartridge paper.
13cm x 13cm. Rotring pen, Inktense pencils with water wash, gold metallic watercolour paint.
A small section of the previous Abstract Rock 1 reworked.
11cm x 11cm. Sakura ‘Glaze’ pen, Derwent Coloursoft pencils, Derwent Metallics pencils and Cosmic Shimmer metallic and iridescent watercolour paints on dark blue drawing paper.
A little birthday gift for my pal Debs.
Approx. 11″ x9″
Acrylic inks, technical drawing pens and a few dots of metallic gold ink…but not too many.
As I’ve been working on this today, I realised that it represents how years and years of anger and frustration have been trapped within me, thanks to my childhood upbringing and later life. I’m learning about emotions at my more mature age, having suppressed them for so long in order to, basically, survive.
Even though the structure seems very ordered and controlled, that is how it always has been for me. May the gods forbid that I should show a coarse or ugly display of temper or emotion!
There are cracks there though … and gradually (or not so if the emotional outbursts of the last couple of days are anything to go by) they will be released and healing can properly begin.
It’ll be worth it as I gradually become the person I’m supposed to be, rather than the one that was forced into the wrong sized, shaped and textured hole as a child, young adult, and beyond …
It’s really raining heavily here at the moment. I love the sound of the rain, and the wind, while I’m cwtched up warmly at home. I went out around 8am to do my food shopping and was pleasantly surprised. I expected people to be at the local Tesco’s in their droves, but it was really quite quiet. Hurrah to that is all I can say! For a change, the process of shopping close to the bank holidays was relatively painless.
I finished the small piece of artwork above not long ago. It is just the thing to brighten up the gloomy day. It’s 17cm x 11cm and is worked in various media on white cartridge paper. There’s metallic gold on various parts, but it hasn’t shown up in the scanning.
I’m now officially way past bone tired and I suspect that after having another mug of tea and a bite to eat I may go and join the cat in bed.
Oh the joys of being on the winter break!
Art is the Adventure 