My Easter Journal spread- done in response to a Love this Journal challenge :)
Done using Pilot G2 Pens and watercolour pencils.
If you look closely, you can see the Pilot G2 hatching- lots of pretty colours in the G2 range :) Unfortunately, when you wet them they bleed and soak through the page some.
I discovered my watercolour Moleskine was not yet filled. I had left it unfilled so I had a travel book in my bag, but recently I have put my other journals in there anyway :) So I decided today was the day to work on those last few spreads. I did a couple of warm up pages- nothing to show here... then I made this page :)
I am exploring this medium some, but the limited movement my sore wrist allows is making it difficult :) I really like the one on the left though...
Dashed outside this afternoon for a little while to enjoy the sun. It's been 5 days of rain- I am out of practise with that ;)As I told Lin this morning, I love fog- I always have. That's probably a good thing because there is a lot of fog in the area in England where I come from :)
So when I got up this morning, I heard on the radio that there were fog advisories- THICK fog they said.
"That's not thick!" was my response. It gets a lot thicker in England :)
I wanted to paint the fog- so I grabbed my pastels, and a suitably grey pastel paper and drew. It's a little hard because something has strained my wrist, and it hurts to do things like funny angles of drawing or shaking the fixative >:/
So I went whimsical... the neighbour's stinkford Bradford pear in the fog...
Since the weather is supposedly going to get cold again, I took advantage of the 80 degree weather to record some of it :)
My usual yearly peach blossom sketch, a few birds and plants and the rapidly darkening sky.
I really hope it doesn't get snowy again...
It's spring (no matter what the calendar says) and the temperatures are in their up-down cycle. Today was 82 degrees and I spent a lot of time outside- taking the opportunity to draw while I did :)
Now the clocks have gone forward, it is light much later, meaning we get more outdoor time :)
Pastels (chalk) and pigma micron.
What happens when the weather hits the 80's in March? Well *I* go outside, prep my vegetable garden, plant peas and spinach and broccoli raab and get sunburned.
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I had originally planned on drawing this one while cooking my baked potatoes last night- but I forgot because I wanted to finish a book :p Instead, I did it today :) while it just sat there.
we went for years without one, and only replaced it recently after our toaster oven started scaring us by not turning off. We voted on this one because it toasts too- therefore I can now use this to defrost things, and cook cup-eggs and baked potatoes (and reheat) which seems to be all I do with it!
Chalk pastels on Canson mi-teintes in a homemade notebook.
Another ATC- I was experimenting with a technique in this one- and I am not happy with it :/
Always something outside the window when it snows...
But when it gets dark, there is not a lot of light! The mirror image really captured my attention...
a trip in the car made me memorise the colours of sun and shade on the snow- which I later painted in pastel :)
