Love of Layers

 

Gouache, Posca Paint Pens

Check out The Doodle Book class with Joanne Sharpe here.

The Scribble Doodle

 

Gouache, Posca Paint Pens

Watercolour, Ink, Posca Paint Pens

You can find out more about Joanne Sharpe's class here.

Still More Art Sparks 3!: Pockets full of Posies

 

Spring Being a Tough Act to Follow.....

 

I've still got lots of "art bits" left over, so I'll be collaging them into some of my other journals.  Of course there is also the possibility of ArtSparks3!

Summer Breeze

 

Heat Wave

 

These are two more pages from my ArtSparks2 book, Summer.

Flower Power

 

The big purple flower flips up to reveal an orange one.  Now that's flower power!

This is another page from my ArtSparks2 book, Summer.

Little Pockets

 

My book, Summer, includes some pockets.  This makes the book interactive - you can pull the flowers out.

The little black pot is a pocket too.

Blue Skies

These are the first two pages of my ArtSparks2 book, Summer. 

Inside front cover

Summer

 

I have finished the book project from Joanne Sharp's "Art Sparks2" class.  This is the cover.  

The book form is a concertina or accordian book, and here is one side of the book opened completely.

This is the other side of the book.

I'll post some more pictures of each page separately - you can also turn the pages like a regular book.  It is a fun form, not one that I use a lot.  I'm really enjoying this one though!

Art Sparks 2 Continues

 

This is a progress shot of one side of my Art Sparks 2 concertina book.  I painted the pages with gouache and I'm now decorating them with all kinds of collage bits.  I haven't played with my gouache for awhile, and I thoroughly enjoyed painting with the creamy yumminess.

Sunflower

Fruit-Crate Label, Direct to Gouache

Retail Therapy

Watercolour, Parallel Pen

Watercolour, Gouache

The Title Page

I'm getting a little tired of sketching my watercolor palette on the first page of every new journal I start.  Sketching my palette was an idea that I got from Liz Steel, but I don't change colors in my palette very often, so I thought I might use the first page as a place to do a lettering exemplar.  Then, I can use it for reference throughout the journal.  (Whether this new idea will continue remains to be seen.)

I copied this from two pieces done by Ben Shahn using gouache with a paint brush.

I Am the Real Vine

On the last Sunday of International Fake Journal Month I painted a vine and wrote out part of today's Gospel reading.  It doesn't matter where you are in the world, the scripture passages are the same, so I can be in England (working in my fake journal) or here at home and still hear the same thing.  I love that; the lectionary knits us together around the world!

What Kind of Bird is This?

Gouache bird sketch.

Neither the fake me nor the real me have ever seen one before.  

Sketching at the Bird & Deer Park

I sketched these chickens in gouache.  The one on the recto page didn't stand out against the red background that was there so I added some green.

Lots of Bird Action Returning to Our Area...

IFJM - Cakes or Books?

You choose, I can't.

Gouache, Acrylic

The drawing of the bookstore looks like this:

Working with Thick Gouache

One of my objectives for International Fake Journal Month is to work in thick gouache.  When used directly from the tube, gouache behaves somewhat like acrylic, without the clean-up issues.  (Gouache is water-soluble even when dry).  When you use it thick, without diluting it with water, paper thickness/quality isn't an issue either.  This painting of a kite at the Minchinhampton Kite Festival was done on drawing paper and collaged on the page later.  (I also used gouache directly on my background print on the Peter Rabbit page here.)