More face fun

more digital doodling

More digital fun

Still playing away, decided to add some architecture for a quickie observational challenge. I'm enjoying using a reductive method in digital, kind of a virtual scratchboard!

Is it just me or is The Red Balloon one of those things that bores the snot out of you as a child and then as an adult you totally love it?

Ask/Ask - Art Journal Page

No matter how old you get, you and your mother will probably have this dialogue.

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technical sidestep of further navel-gazing time!
There's some of that tasty hand stamping, you can see where I started.

Gelatos again. I think they're a definite candidate for my next BRUTALLY HONEST PRODUCT REVIEW segment - will they pass the test? As always, it depends what you are testing!

Also used - 99 cent alpha stamp, posca, charcoal, pencil, gesso.

Getting messy again....gelatos and inktense journal pages

Peace of mind? Really? How journal schmournally. It's a well-trod sentiment. But peeps, my dear peeps, how I really really could use some in my life this week.

This page started with a hand stamp I carved. I call the pattern "cairn" - you can't really see a lot of evidence of it here, but I'll be showing it off a lot.  I'm LOVING carving my own stamps as a starting point - it's a great way to lay down a bunch of information onto that intimidating white page, and it's a nice way to keep the image vocabulary your own.

The flowers are collaged deco paper, though. I thought they went so nicely with the background I worked up with plenty of gelatos dripping. They do tend to migrate down the page in a different way from watercolors, it's hard to explain but you'll notice the difference if you try both.

Used inktense, gesso, posca, acrylic pen and ink, and lots of prismacolor here. It's nice to get messy again and get lot of deep saturated color.

More Cat Faces.

I used a pencil sketch as the basis for this again, this time much more digital layering and coloring. I was laboring under the delusion that digital is faster. Digital is not faster - the digital advantage is simply having the world's most awesome eraser at your disposal.

Time Spent with a Cat

Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
-Colette.

 

Pencil, digtally inked and cleaned up.

I'm really enjoying this little visual journey.  Yeah it looks different from my other work, but I think it's a logical place to go based on everything else. I'm not done making lots of messes, though.  Wonder if I can make it all make sense together.

Field of Dreams

More playing with ink, pencil and I even dragged out the intuos 3. Seems it's been waiting for the right moment.

Doing the opposite....

I set up a challenge for myself - I don't usually doodle in a way I find visually rewarding, I don't usually use line or fail to use layers, and I don't tend to work in a very graphic way.

So: HB pencil only in my sketchbook.

Scanned, digitally colored - I was going for the look of a poorly registered print, somewhat.

Valentine faces!  Thinking of you (plural) - me plural making art, all my various visual personae duking it out to see whose style will actually win.

29 faces day 1 - 4x6 with crumpling

For 29 faces - a face as the focal of a small painting. This is 4x6 and about as small as I can get comfortably, more power to the people who rock original ACEOS!

Experimenting with trashing my cardstock before painting on it.  Honestly I only halfway like it here, but it's worth playing with. Used distress inks, a Tim Holz lettering stamp, my own painting in acrylic, inktense pencils victorian butterfly collage cutouts (courtesy of justsomethingimade)

The butterflies were made into an acrylic skin - everyone familiar with that technique? I might do more with it in future posts.

After I was done I wasn't loving the surface, so it's nothing my quilting iron and wax couldn't enhance. It's a little crazy to put wax onto paper rather than a hard surface, but I think it worked.