Return to Art Journalling

After months of cardmaking and photography projects (plus the Sketchbook Project), I have finally got back into art journalling.  It was great to crank up the music (African Guitar Legends - great background music) and get the paints out again after so long.

The compass is a Tim Holtz mask (which I failed to stick on straight!) and I used a lovely huge skeleton leaf on the other page, which adds a nice bit of texture.

Last Sketchbook Project Pages

A couple more pages from my Sketchbook Project, which I managed to finish and which is now winging its way over to Brooklyn NY.  I was trying out my new Rotring ink cartridge pen here, plus watersoluble crayons.

3D Wedding Cards

I'm really enjoying my cardmaking at the moment and have been having fun making boxed wedding and anniversary cards. I've been giving the Cuttlebug a workout, using embossing folders and Spellbinders dies.

A bit of Nature Photography for a Change

I've had enough of pylons and carparks and man-made stuff for a while, so I took my camera to West Dean Gardens near Chichester...

I loved the shapes of the flowers and the leaves of this blue Echinops flower.

(I held a sheet of white paper behind the flower to take the photo, and I have altered the brightness using Photoshop, but the flower really was very blue.)

Willow Sculpture 

More Sketchbook Project Pages

Koi Carp - Watercolour on Yupo Paper

Construction site with Crane - Ink/acrylic on Watercolour Wash (Yupo Paper)

Trees - Coloured pencil/ Ink on Watercolour Wash (Yupo Paper)

Sketchbook Project Pages

Pylons - Indian Ink on Watercolour wash background.

 

Cranes - Indian Ink on Watercolour wash background 

 

Floral fabric design -  Stencil/stamps/ink on Watercolour background

 

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Pink House Watercolour/Collage