Both worked in the last 24 hours or so. Same media for both – Sakura Glaze pens, watercolours and Cosmic Shimmer iridescent/metallic watercolour paints.
Each ‘dot’ on the mandala has a metallic centre or ring around it.
Fun to do! Engaging to create and colour … very meditative.
Approx. 18cm in diameter.
Sakura Glaze pen, Derwent Coloursoft pencils, Derwent Metallics pencils, Derwent burnisher, Cosmic Shimmer iridescent watercolours and Uniball metallic pens.
12cm x 12cm. Derwent Metallic pencils, Sakura glaze pen and Cosmic Shimmer metallic/iridescent watercolour paints.
Just finished … kept me busy for a couple of hours…again, I’m not good at photography, this time the colours are washed out … sigh…one day I may crack it!
16cm x 8cm. Sakura Glaze pen in black, Derwent colorsoft pencils, Derwent metallics pencils and Cosmic Shimmer iridescent/metallic watercolour paints on black card.
I started this one before my return to work a fortnight ago. I noticed as I was completing it this weekend that it’s a little disjointed in places which may symbolise how I was feeling about the return to work. The photograph really doesn’t show the colours properly, nor the shimmer and shine of the metallics. However, you do get an idea of what it looks like.
I made it back to work for the start of the Summer Term. My voice, however, is still not right. Work have referred me to occupational health and for speech therapy. Also, there’s a microphone/speaker system on order for my room so that I won’t have to raise my voice. My doctor has referred me to ENT to have my voice checked out.
The worst thing of all, is I still can’t sing. I love to sing, have always sung with one choir or another since I started secondary school. I join in the singing at any gathering where there is some. This bout of laryngitis has affected that part of my voice, and I really, really do hope it will return properly and fully.
The handbrake broke on the car a couple of days ago. As I’m writing this, I’m waiting for my nephew, who’s a whizz with cars, to come and see what needs to be done.
This is on top of a water leak from the toilet cistern a couple of weeks ago that came through the downstairs ceiling.
The ‘earphone’ on my mobile has stopped working too.
I hope that’s the triad of breaking done with!
Approx. 8″ square. Worked in a combination of coloured pencils, metallic pencils and metallic watercolour paints along with the outlines in Sakura glaze pens.
Approx. 7″ in diameter.
Sakura ‘Glaze’ pen, Derwent Metallics and Coloursoft pencils, and Cosmic Shimmer Iridescent watercolour paints on black card.
Approx. 7.25″ or 18 cm in diameter
Sakura pen outline. Derwent Metallics and Coloursoft pencils together with metallic watercolour paints provide the colour fill.
What to do when one has lost one’s voice … do the class homework to create a mandala for another person of course! (Yes, I know I’m going to end up having to do one for each of you my class…)
Approx. 6.5″/16cm in diameter.
Sakura Glaze outlines. Colour from Derwent metallic pencils and Derwent ‘Coloursoft’ pencils blended, with metallic paint highlights.
24cm x 17cm (approx 9″ x 6.5″)
Sakura Glaze outline with various metallic pencils, pens and paints to colour on black card.
Done for a friend at work for her office – it’s been long promised!
Well, it’s another grey, damp day here; the kind of day that is best spent pottering around the home, lost in art or creativity of some kind or other methinks!
A friend gifted me a set of three books all about Romanesque, medieval and Gothic art. Browsing through them reminded me of how much I love architecture, especially Romanesque. It also reminded me of the wonderful angels to be seen at Malmesbury Abbey and Kilpeck Church, and I woke up this morning with an idea in my head to sketch and draw and create. I want to do this work in a simple, stylised form – influenced by Romanesque and by Art Nouveau, and possibly stained glass.
Here is the work so far.
Around 12″ x 8″ in size, it has been outlined using a grey Sakura Glaze pen, which gives it that ‘stained glass’ feel. I want to use jewel-bright colours to complete the work, the kinds of colours seen in medieval manuscripts.
Angela Porter 