ICAD #39 - #41 - Drawing

Books I'm Reading

Drawing Exercise from Melanie Testa's Book Dreaming From the Journal Page

Pineapple Tea Box Drawing with Gouache

ICAD #38 - Revisiting a Favorite Technique - Versamark and Pan Pastels

Pan Pastel
Hand Carved Mushroom Stamp

ICAD #37 - What I'm Reading

Gouache

I think that this will become a regular part of my sketchbook routine.  I read a lot and so if I'm documenting my life in sketchbook, I should draw my books!  This ICAD project is helping me work out my very confused thoughts on journaling. 

ICAD #35 & #36 - Color Wheels

A useful ICAD exercise - color wheels made from just three primary colors, in watercolor and gouache.

ICAD #33 & 34 - Drawing

ICAD #32 - Blind Gelato Goes Walking

I enjoyed taking a black gelato for a blind walk so much that I did it again.  I just love finger painting with my gelatos!  I love it so much that I've gessoed two more index cards ready for more.  (Gelatos move so much easier on gesso).

My sister, Dianne, thinks this is a man taking a shower.  How does she do that?  She sees so much I don't.....

I Thought I Had a Plan

It started as an experiment.  I wanted to do a bit of "composing" my alcohol inks, rather than dabbing the ink all over in a background pattern.  Then, I thought, I'd cut them into Artist Trading Cards and stamp on top of them.  That was the plan.

But now, some of these seem too nice to cut up and too nice to stamp on.  Some of them seem to stand alone somehow.  Greeting cards?  (Sorry about the camera glare, the alcohol inks need glossy paper.)

In the first, my sister, Dianne, saw birch trees:

 Here's a sky over grass:

Waves on a rocky shore:

Flowers over a field:

Waves at sunset:

Not sure about this one, maybe cut this into ATC's:

I'm not sure about this one either:

"Sittin' on the dock of the bay", well OK, under it:

What do you think?  Any ideas about what I should do with these?