I think it's about time for some sketchbook updates! Be prepared for lots of pictures!
First, my black sketchbook from 2011 that you've seen from the very beginning. I left off at this orange page & used a few subsequent pages while planning my thesis submission & wedding photography:
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Figures & their page numbers, upside down. A list of photos to take, with a cut page in between. The piece missing is filling the front of my aunt's wedding photo album:
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Some doodling:
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A watercolour colour wheel! My friend Angie is starting a regular blog feature with mini workshops & art tutorials & this was the first one.
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It was a lot of fun mixing paint - I haven't played with watercolour all that much & actually only had blue, red & yellow, which was just enough!
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I had lots of leftover paint after this though, so I filled in a few pages:
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This butter yellow page will get filled, I'm just not sure what I want to put in the frame:
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But that isn't all I did with the leftover paint. I wanted to paint an actual picture on real watercolour paper while I had all the colours mixed up! Here's what I came up with:
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Not too bad for my first try, right? It was based on this drawing, though I wasn't looking at it while I was painting, I just kept it in the back of my mind:
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That drawing is in a sketchbook I'm not going to show you right now. I may just have something up my sleeve for next year, but it's going to take a lot of planning & sketchbooking & hard work! It'll combine three of my passions: sketching, blogging & teaching..... but that's all I'm going to say for now! Stick around for more details, probably mid-October!
Here are a few closer looks at my painting:
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And speaking of leftover watercolour paint, that wasn't all! I also filled another sheet of watercolour paper randomly, to use in collage:
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As you can see, I already used it to draw a couple forks & spoons for my Sketchbook Project 2012.
Here's how that book is coming along:
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This is the spread with the watercolour collage, on pages 22-23. The green paper is a fancy handmade paper I found in a cool Mixed Media art shop.
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I also decided what I wanted to do with pages 2-3:
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Simple definitions cut out of a vintage dictionary. Not sure if I want to add more to these pages or not...
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And another collage on page 8:
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I was forced to rebind my book due to that pink collage above. The piece covers the page spread right in the middle of a signature, so I would be gluing over the threads holding it all together. As I mentioned before, my sketchbook needed rebinding since the first time I did it was too loose. So I did it in a different way & that it's much sturdier now:
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4 comments:
I love how you collaged the vintage definitions in, very nice!
You should play with watercolours more often! (I know this may be *slightly* biased - okay, very biased lol) but I love them - they're so easy and don't require as much set up as oil / acrylic.
So interesting to see your watercolor color wheel. I've never tried that before, and I'm thinking I definitely should. Love your new painting, she looks so very serene. ~ Alisa
Cool pics! Love your painting!
The water pourer looks lovely, great paintings :)
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