I had my first 'snow day' of the winter off work & got such a lot done! I looked out for the gritter but for a very small road down to my house on a Sunday it wasn't very likely. ;)
I've been playing with a lovely book lent to me by a friend - Stitched Textiles: Flowers by Bobby Britnell The 2 pics above were made based on her samples, not actually an 'exercise' like the drawings below - I think I just jumped right in there! I've also been involved in artchain & used these images for my first day.
BB has you draw a flower/seed head (or both, of course) observing everything you can about it - she used honesty & as it's one of my favorites I drew the dried sprig from my studio.
Here I've used my non dominant hand, must press harder! Scuse the bleed from the next page, they are very absorbent pages in the sample sketch book I'm using. I'll come back later & do an ink wash & a charcoal as suggested.
These 2 pages are changing the white ground in various ways. I've done most of them before but hadn't used my gold acrylic (top) or ink (bottom) till now, just delicious on top of wrinkled tissue paper & getting a sketch book together based on a borrowed book makes you actually do these things.
I had a great time during a power cut early this year making a lovely mess with acrylic, stamps pastels & spent dyes a la Hillary Beattie (why do I have to wait till the lights go off?) - I'm enjoying her book The Gentle Art of Gelliping on mono printing but I haven't succumbed to a 'Gelliplate' yet - my gelatin plate lives in the deep freeze!
I also got a small hearts order finished, must make some more for my Etsy shop for 2 weeks time!
Sunshine above this morning
followed by a mini blizzard a few minutes later & on & off all day.
Snow drops in the snow where they should be
