the other side of the folds
The other side of day / page 40 had folds already in place from which to make structure. These created rectangles in which to hold doodles. It was another page that spilled into its neighbour,...
View Articleink dribbles
Remember the watermarked dyed paper ? This week I’ve been playing with ink (quite a lot!) So it followed that where water does one thing, ink should do similar but with more colorful results! I used...
View Articleink runs
Two pages in one post, Playing with ink never tires, never gets samey, never ceases to amuse me. Alternating between transparent, opaque, and water in drips and runs, watching the pigments flow and...
View ArticleMixed Mish Mash
Click to view slideshow. This weekend I spent playing with ink on gesso and acrylic medium. Dripping, spraying, dribbling and seeing where the runs take it. On wet and dry gesso, ink on wet inks, ink...
View ArticleMonochrome Monday
I’ve thought about a black and white page for a while. I’ve even tried. But resisting any color at all was harder than I cared to admit! Anyway, prompted by John Clinock of Art Rat Cafe I determined to...
View ArticleThe Spirit of Fizzing Zing
I don’t think any of us are surprised to find, that after a monochrome day there was a pent up explosion of color just ready to burst out of my head onto the page! Dripped ink puddles on the page But...
View Articlesubtlety
The range of colors, the colors themselves, all add up to a mood or visual sensation. By changing the hues, we change much more. Restricting colors (I find this a BIG challenge!) is a technique I am...
View Articleday last-but-one
While I was playing with my new inks last week, I developed some of these experiments on Thursday’s and Friday’s pages the milky opacity of white ink dripped in transparent colored ink details the runs...
View Articlebeginning of a new adventure
I started the page a day project on 16 March this year. 3 books and 6 months later, what began as a whim rapidly snowballed into an all-out obsession, and I have loved ever minute of it! This is...
View Articlelast page (just for now)
doodles on inks on tissue paper on the last page… …a book with another happy ending!
View Article100 drawings: almost full circle.
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.." ~ Carl Sagan. 100 doodles from 100 photos in my phone. This is the last but one week of my extended summer...
View Article100 drawings: the closing pages.
“I try to create fantastic things, magical things, things like in a dream. The world needs more fantasy." ~ Salvador Dali.
View Article100 lessons from 100 drawings
In no particular order, these are the realisations that accompanied this project. These were observations I heard over and over again in my thoughts, page after page...
View Article100 days in 2019
It's that time of year again , Instagram is full to bursting of 100 day projects. I love the variety of ideas that populate this challenge. This is my third year of participating.
View Article100 days of doodles: 1-9
"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning." — Louis L'Amour. This year's #100dayproject is all about the doodle for me. It's my meditation, my therapy,...
View Article100 days of doodles: 10-18
" The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown." — Rene Magritte . This year's #100dayproject is all about the doodle for me....
View Article100 days of doodles: 19-27
This year's #100dayproject is all about the doodle for me. It's my meditation, my therapy, my escape from the noise of my thoughts.
View Article100 days of doodles: 28-36
This year's #100dayproject is all about the doodle for me. It's my meditation, my therapy, my escape from the noise of my thoughts.
View Article100 days of doodles: 37-45
This year's #100dayproject is all about the doodle for me. It's my meditation, my therapy, my escape from the noise of my thoughts.
View Article100 days of doodles: 46-54
This year's #100dayproject is all about the doodle for me. It's my meditation, my therapy, my escape from the noise of my thoughts.
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