Thinking about Frida

Thinking about our upcoming trip! Getting quite excited!  God willing and the creek don’t rise! 

I totally missed on Frida’s likeness but I’m happy that I finally finished the page! 

Lunchbox art

My granddaughter asked me to make a drawing for her school lunch next week.  Hope she likes thus Sktchy inspired doggie with done super cool glasses!

Early in the morning

Rolling Stones

New coat arrives in the mail

Let’s Face It - week 5

Thanks so much Danielle Mack for this weeks class! I didn’t end up being as loose as I had hoped.  I made so many mistakes that I had to use the coloured pencils to cover them up as best I could.  I used acrylic ink in:  sepia, red earth, marine blue, transparent burnt umber, transparent raw sienna, naphthol crimson and quin magenta. 

Dreams

Dreams are dress rehearsals for the future.  Coloured pencil on a wood plank.  I should have sanded it before I applied the watered down acrylic paint. 

The Nose Knows

This doggie is Sktchy inspired.

P-l-e-a-s-e, please can I have a piece of cake??!  Pen and gouache, and alphabet stamps. In my Stillman and Birn sketchbook!

 

The Renaissance Pose

This page in my Stillman and Birn sketchbook and it is way outside of my comfort zone but I thought- why not?! It is fun to mix things up a bit.  I signed up for an online class called “Let’s Face It”,  here is my results for this week.  I am not a coloured pencil artist and I had to use what I had on hand.  Then I couldn’t help myself, I turned it into a mixed media piece with the addition of cheap matte craft paint.  Totally different for me but I had fun.  I was going to fool with it some more but then thought better of it - I decided to quit while I was ahead!!

I left the “under painting” showing at the bottom so I wouldn’t forget what I did.

Poor Henry

Yesterday we went to the Art Gallery of Ontario (the AGO).  We were looking st the paintings in a room that had British art and several chairs were situated in several locations.  I decided to sit in the one that was opposite Henry.  Not that I really wanted to draw him but he was the easiest of all the paintings in the room; the others were massive and had too many people depicted for the amount of time I had available. 

I drew it there but painted it up later until it got so dark in the pub were we had our dinner. 

Poor Henry, I wasn’t watching and I messed with the placement of his ears 

Ukulele and imperfection

We are visiting the family in the big city.  I decided to keep this page as is even though my first attempt at drawing the ukulele went awry.  I’m good  with the journaling overtop.  I’m trying to let go of “perfection”! It is not s word that normally is in my vocabulary anyway.

I added the gift wrap border afterwards and then had to figure out how to fit it in to the page. It doesn’t really but that is the way it goes for me quite often.