The Last of the Sketchbook Project

Here are the last of the pages for the Sketchbook Project.  I sent it off and received an email saying they have received it!  Hooray!!

I really enjoyed this venture into colors, textures and patterns.

Not only did images using the dots of bubble wrap and the nettings or holes of the netting continue to emerge but also I seemed to enjoy adding a curling undulating line to the pages.

The final page and inside back cover of the book……a few more feathers for good luck!

Sketchbook Project Pages

…more pages….
This is the back of the front cover and the first page of the sketchbook.

A new perspective on a cityscape?

It was very fun to go back into these pages of color, texture and pattern with the black pen and bring out the story of the page.

More Sketchbook Project

More pages from the Sketchbook Project.  I have two more pages left in the book and then it's off to Brooklyn and then back to California for the Spring Sketchbook Tour.

I've decided on a title:
"…and the black pen"

That is what fell into place when I decided to go back into each page with my black pen.

More to come…….

Sketchbook Project

I got an email from the Brooklyn Art Library about another edition of the Sketchbook Project. This time it was for California artist and a California tour before resting in New York.

Well, sounded like I qualified so I signed up…..and now I just have to finish!

I must say the paper was fairly thin and any watercolor bled through and the pages became very wrinkled.  So I switched gears and used my water based print inks and just rolled on layers of colors.
You can see the smooth left side and the wrinkled right side where I had applied watercolor to the other side of that page.

After getting a few pages layered I decide I would go into each page with black pen and make that the theme of the sketchbook.  This one went a little crazy but who doesn't need a little crazy in their life.

These are double spread pages.
Pages are 5" x 7"

Black and White

These are some more pages from the Sketchbook Project. I thought I would post all black and whites this week. Though the scans have some yellow from the sketchbook pages. A Zentangled Faberge Egg seemed like a good combo.

This one is my version of a beta fish minus the lovely colors.

He needed a little more so I added the bands of Zens.

On this page I traced two of the zentangle 3.5 squares and did the more traditional Zentangle format. These little guys are so fun and you can see I have started breaking the borders which I am so fond of doing.

Pen in Moleskine Sketchbook

Sketchbook Project Finished!

Yes, 30 pages completed! I really enjoyed this project though at times I was a little stressed about it and getting it done. Thought I would share a few more pages. This cork from a special dinner with daughter and her husband is actually stamped with "dedicated to the art" Sarah said I had to keep this one.

Don't remember how this page got started but when you draw one caterpillar you just have to keep going. They are such fascinating little things, destructive I know, but fascinating just the same. I like this page a lot.

A local artist does these Spirit Keeper dolls. I have always loved them and so decided to sketch a few of my own. Maybe someday I will actually construct one. They are always so calm and serene to me. Comforting.

Sketchbook Project

Pen and Watercolor

Sketchbook Project

Yes, I too got involved with the Sketchbook Project with the Brooklyn Art Library. It's getting down to the deadline date and I am still working on it but thought I would take time to share a few pages with you. Who doesn't like a blue mannikin?

I have also been seduced by Zentangles! Grids and Zentangles, why it seemed like a perfect match to me.

These little whimsical hangy things just came to mind. Just little pieces of colors and shapes. Wood, glass, plastic, ceramic... I don't know, I'll let you decide.

Sketchbook Project Moleskine

Pen and Watercolor