I have been busy doing backgrounds for my art journal but it seems that's about as far as I get. The backgrounds easy but then I get stuck with what to do next. Some backgrounds I hate to cover up so they just sit there. I have been drawing here and there as well. I started coloring in my pencil drawings and my husband was quite impressed with me. He has always said our kids got their artistic ability from him. I had to remind him that my father was quite artistic himself.
I had some ideas that I wanted to illistrate about "making a splash" but my printer wasn't working so I decided to draw (kinda) what I was thinking. That sat for some time just like it is in the photo. I was thinking of coloring it with my water color pencils, but I don't have a wide variety of colors, so I went through my kids stock pile of colored pencils from their old school supplies. I think I have about 5 pounds of pencils. I have three kids, and each year they had to have colored pencils. Every time I said use the ones from the past year they supprisingly couldn't find them. Well I found ALL of them. That's three kids times four years each of new pencils, that is a lot of pencils. Any way I went back through one bag and came up with a wide range of colors and colored the above picture. Now my son wants to take the pencils I so carefully selected and re-sharpened, and color some of his drawings. I think I need to hide them.
Here is the end result.
The next few photos are random drawings and backgrounds I worked on.
The lower right hand corner is where I first drew my "make a splash" drawing on a small scale.
I know the drawings need color and I will eventually get to it but I wanted to post them incase I mess them up before I get to coloring them.
These backgrounds were done using spray inks, stencils, stamps, black and white gesso. I outlined some of the images with a white and black pen.
This last image isn't mine. My son was doodling in church. He is quite talented, just look at that Christmas tree, lol.
I LOVE your "make a splash" picture. Your artwork is getting better and better. You did a wonderful job with the shading and highlighting. I do the same thing....draw something before I actually draw it. So funny. Great Job!
ReplyDeleteBTW, what color did you use to stamp the water droplets. Love that too.
ReplyDeleteI used StazOn Azure (blue). I thought about using black but since most everything else was done in a shade of blue I thought I'd stamp them in blue. I thought it might look more like water on the page. I accidentally stamped some upside down. I didn't highlight them with the white pen cause I thought I may end up covering them up with something.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like you did highlight some of them. They look really good. I love that stamp. I also love the blue jean girl you drew. She's got some hips on her. Very curvy woman.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing your pages.
ReplyDeleteI have done an art journal...but not a traditional art journal, in my opinion.
I am planning on working on one in the new year...I need all the help I can get :)