I’ve had a couple of days busy with other matters and not much time to spend on drawing. Today, however, I’ve taken the time to relax with pen and paper. I’m feeling a bit out of sorts today. I think that’s reflected in the drawing.
line art
A little colouring break
I’ve been busy with black and white line art over the past few days. Seeing so many people colouring artwork in with gay abandon had me hankering for my Polychromos coloured pencils, paper stumps and blending fluid for a while this evening. I drew some designs just for my own personal fun over the weekend and decided to add colour to one of them. Below is the result, the work in progress.
It could take a while to get finished as I have so much line art to do, which is great for me. It is therapeutic, soothing, healing for me and that is just what I need at this point in life.
One thing I could do with an answer to is why do scanners always wash out the colours I have used? I have a Brother A3 printer/scanner, which is great as I’m tending towards using larger paper these days, but try as I might I can’t seem to stop the color washout.
If anyone can give me any advice, help or instructions then that would be grand!
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Busy, busy, busy!
Pens, pencils, rulers, protractors and compasses all busy, busy, busy here! Over half way through Color Me Stress-free’s black and white lineart (artwork for four out of the seven chapters done!). I’m keeping the coloring of the colored samples until all the black and white is done as my big treat – I don’t often get to color in my own artwork these days!
Dragonflies and the New Year
It’s the first day of a new calendar.
Happy 1st of January 2015 to you all and may this day and all that follow be filled with all the love, joy, creativity and good things that each of you deserves so much.
This isn’t quite my first piece of art for this new year; I spent time today completing two pieces of Scandinavian art for Michael O’Mara Books. I got the 1960s work for them done on Tuesday. Yesterday was a day where I did some mandalas for the third ‘Color Me’ book to follow on from the huge success of Color Me Calm and Colour Me Happy.
I’m certainly being kept busy with art!
The winter break is nearly over, and all too soon. It took me over week to calm down enough that the palpitations from work related stress calmed down and for me to sleep properly once again.
No doubt the manic-ness that is teaching will have me stressed out again, especially as it’ll be crazy with an Estyn inspection in three weeks time.
Taking time to meditate, to create, to write will be so important for me, as it always is, but more so with this added pressure and the fact that I didn’t realise how stressed out I was with work, and how exhausted I was too.
I hope I can stave the exhaustion off for a longer time this coming school term …
Winter Solstice 2014
Happy Solstice to you all!
A time to let go of what limits you in your life’s progress, of what is now done with of what you no longer need, all in order to make space for the new.
I finally had time today to spend on art for pure pleasure for myself. Much of my art of late has been for publishers as wll s in my art journal. Doing this work is really enjoyable, but it has to fit a brief, whereas the work above just flowed from my pen without any thought or form to begin with.
The letter P
Approx. 16cm x 16 cm. Rotring pen on white paper.
Just playing around here…thought I’d try this idea out. Not happy with the overspills into the white space of the P.
As always, I own the copyright to this work. It may not be used or altered in any way without written permission from myself.
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