Watercolor Wednesday

A pause within a move…spontaneous figure sketches:

Sketchbook Potential

This sketch originated from another scrap of a ripped up monotype that turned on its side, happens to resemble a face and hat of a fairy tale character.  The rest is improvised. I think it just might turn up again as a fully realized children’s book illustration.

Fancy New Sketchbook

I’ve been gifted a charming new sketchbook, and I’m beginning to fill it up. First pages..watercolor pencil

Gone Fishing

Sketchbook Project 2013                    Graphite  Fishing for…information, gossip, compliments, sustenance, trouble…             Ideas?

Past

The Sketchbook Project 2013             Graphite From family photos, a collage of images brought together through sketch.  The past rearranged.

Dreamswim

                                                                                     Sketchbook Project 2013       White charcoal on Canson Mi Teintes paper …

The Lake

Sketchbook Project  2013               Graphite  I’ve entitled this sketch,  ” At the lake” because…   I’ve  always enjoyed trips to a lake.  But..there’s something exciting and a little bit creepy about the surroundings;murky water, snakes, mystery lurking.  This sketch captures how I felt as a kid, near the lake.

Sketchbook 3-4

These pages are created on stipple paper and the drawing pencils are augmented with liquid graphite or liquid pencil. I’ve never played with liquid pencil before.  Mixed with a little water, the result is a silvery paint-like substance.  Fun!

Sketch Distortions

Quick sketches with a twist of Photoshop distortion to push them just a little further. .

More Sketchbook

I found some old little plastic bottles with a fine nozzle tip, filled with acrylic paint soooo I played with them in my sketchbook.  I added a little graphite and  in a couple of minutes this figure danced into existence.

Sketchbook Page

Tissue, Sharpie and white acrylic.

Sketchy Sketchbook

Sketchy guy.. This one is very sketchy too. Meaning, just a scratchy pen on the unaltered sketchbook page.

A Page From My Sketchbook

*Update: A fellow artist mentioned that she would like to see the original sketchbook entry without the influence of Photoshop.  Great idea, so..here it is.  Oh, I should probably say that the deep blue is acrylic paint smudged onto a blue watercolor wash with an old (worn out 😉 credit card).  The “drawing” is simply …

Digital Character Sketches

I’m working on a couple of new projects, but in the spare moments in between, I’m doing a little digital sketching.  They’re all about preteeniness.

Seasonal Sanity Sketch

A little draw meditation therapy to regulate the stress and joy of the season.