A teeny-tiny fussy little drawing at just 15cm x 15cm. It’s worked in black fine line pen, Zig Art and Graphic Twins with water wash provide the colours and iridescent gold water colour paint provides the highlights.
Just the thing to keep my slightly busy now I’m feeling on the mend.
I took a couple of plunges concerning my art in the last few days. One was to set up an account with ARTFLAKES where some of my art will be available as printed canvasses, art prints and greetings cards. The other was to open an Etsy shop. I’ve just uploaded my first items to my Etsy shop, and they are three recently created ACEO cards, each of which is just 3½” by 2½” in size. I do have others lurking around the house somewhere, and they’ll be added, along with other arty and crafty stuff I create.
A big step for me, a plunge even, as I need to find outlets for my creations, for others to acquire and share in the enjoyment I experience when I create and the love that goes into my creations.
Here’s the three ACEO cards – very simple, but that’s me at this moment in time as I rebalance my emotions from the revelations and emotional turmoil of the last few days…
12″ x 8″. Sakura Glaze pen for outline (grey used), Inktense pencils and water wash for colours, Cosmic Shimmer gold and silver watercolour paints for various bits and bobs.
Just finished this experiment. The photo isn’t really all that good (I’ve said before, often, photography isn’t one of my skills, and the painting/drawing is too big to fit in my scanner). The outlines are glossy and so have reflected the flash too much, and there are places where the metallic highlights haven’t shown up well, but you’ll get the idea.
I’m actually fairly pleased with this, especially when it is shrunk in size as all the imperfections I perceive disappear.
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!
4″x8″ in size. Black Rotring pens, Derwent Inktense pencils with water wash and metallic gold watercolour paint on cold pressed watercolour paper.
This was completed while taking a break from reading/researching/note-taking/getting my head around the 2000 word essay I need to write for my hypnotherapist training course by next Saturday. I also need to transcribe my progressive muscle relaxation scripts too… as well as organise the people who’ve volunteered to be my guinea pigs during my training so that I can get some hours of practice logged.
The break was needed; as fascinating as the reading material is, as engrossed in it as I was, my brain was full, I’m still finding myself very tired after the tonsillitis this week and the upset tummy that I’ve had the last couple of days too. I will be retiring to bed as soon as I’ve finished wittering here!
Approx. 26cm x 19cm.
Black technical drawing pens, Inktense pencils with water wash, metallic gold watercolour paint and gold Uniball pen.
This has kept me busy the last four days while I’ve been off work with tonsillitis.
Lots of gold on this one, not that the scan shows it up well, but it works out nicely, I think, if a tad fussy and ornately.
Approx. 15cm in diameter. Rotring Rapidograph pens, Zig Art and Graphic pens with water wash, white Sakura Gelly Roll pen and Gold Uniball gel pen on cold pressed watercolour paper.
I was a happy bunny on arriving home after a long day at work, including a meeting at the end of the teaching day.
I found two of my hypnotherapy books had arrived, and also my sketchbook for The Sketchbook Project 2012! My chosen theme is ‘Prehistoric’ (no surprises there, eh?).
I have one piece of art to finish off, and then I will make a start on this project … it should be fun!
…mandala or just circular piece of art.
15.5cm diameter. 0.3mm technical drawing pen, Zig Art and Graphic pens with water wash, and a white Sakura Gelly-Roll pen on cold-pressed watercolour paper.
15cm x 15cm
Zig Art and Graphic pens with water wash, 0.3mm technical drawing pen, Derwent Inktense pencils with water wash, Uniball gold metallic gel pen and Cosmic Shimmer metallic gold watercolour paint on cold pressed watercolour paper.
Art is the Adventure 