…mostly scribbles

I’m watching a little Woodpecker outside my window…life is good.

I was looking at Dispatch from LA (Mary Ann Moss) and she featured Missy Dunaway’s work. I love her sketchbooks, she uses mostly inks…rich color,  and beautiful.  Click on the link above to take a peek.  Mary Ann also put a link to Missy’s website.

And now, for my meager efforts.  Last week, I seemed to be in a scribbling mode.  This page involves some patterned paper along with my doodles:

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The last photo is from my altered book…Have a good week!

*click on the photo to read the poem*

altered book revisited…

We have been purging our house of unwanted and unneeded items.  We have taken one big load to Good Will and plan to take another one really soon.  I have become an art supply junkie…buying lots of art supplies because I thought I needed them to become a better artist and also because “art instructor” in my latest online class said I needed a certain product to get a specific result. Not that I’m blaming anyone…I didn’t have to do that, did I?

Anyway, while going through my art “stuff,” I found an altered book that started in 2009.  I decided to work on some more pages in it.  I took an altered book class offered then by Patty at Tuscan Rose(River Bend Ranch).  She has changed her art direction and is now making some beautiful art quilts. I found the post that shows a page from my altered book.  Here are some pages I did last week:
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…I planned to draw this book cover from an old Jack and Jill magazine but gave up part way:

J-J…two other sketches last week:

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…trying some things

I wanted to get a quick post in tonight as I’ll be busy tomorrow.  I didn’t do as much sketching this week…I think the paints are calling me.  I want to get back to pushing some paint around…maybe soon.

Here’s a couple of sketches I did using a blue ball point pen…I noticed some bleed through from the other side:

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I was playing with watercolor collage pieces here:

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…playing with FW magenta ink, drawing with the ink dropper:

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d-7_0001 in the one above and the next one, I was experimenting with water soluble crayons and regular wax crayons:

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 That’s all for now…I hope everyone is having a great weekend!!!