Mixed media on canvas, collage, painted, printed and found papers, paint, ink, white pen.
The starting point for this collage was a drawing in an A3 sketchbook.
Which was painted with watercolours and highlighted with a white pen.
Inspired by a lapwing
A friend thought I could do something with an old Somerset Studio art journal calendar dated 2003 so I have decided to alter it. I’m leaving one side of each page as it is, art works and am altering the calendar part of the book. On this collage I have used music, stamped textured wallpaper, punched paper from old music machine, vintage negative film with stitching in knitting ribbon and real flowers under plastic held on with tape.
Inspired by the inside of an envelope, which the collaged numbers were cut from. I also used inktense pencils and a white posca pen.
The butterflies image is from the Naturalist Library book collaged onto a vintage postcard. The background is a texture from one of my paintings.
The Sketchbook Challenge this month is ‘sketching with collage’ and the Illustration Friday challenge is ‘time’ so I have combined both for this one.
I used gesso on the page first, and used an old calendar and diary page for the collaged bits. I drew on watch hands and numbers and finished off with smudged time related quotes in pen.
I also did a digital collage for time
It’s been a while since I did anything in an actual sketchbook but today I have a collage. The dinosaur is actually a piece of wrapping paper and the brown thing I drew is supposed to be a sack [! – looks like a dog bowl]. Unlike digital I can’t easily erase pen. Also another snowman drawn on the tablet [Galaxy note]. I seem to be drawing lots of snowmen recently and we haven’t even got snow at the moment, we do have lots of rain, wind and dark days – miserable.
Mixed media – white pen, brusho inks, collage [vintage book extracts], posca pens, aquamarkers, pens.
This was the collage before I drew on it.
Lins Doodles 