Saturday, 11 December 2010

recent art

In wetcanvas.com I did the November challenge of a page a day in the Art Journal forum. In December it is the 12 days of Chritsmas - I'm 1/3 of the way through that.

Here are some of the November pages.


Coloured pencil leaves


graphite sketch from my photo of someone's happy dog on the beach



Horses - Backgroud in acrylic then I pick out shape swith ink and acrylic. I like doing these 'found horses'. A bit like the scribble patterns we used do as kids.


coloured pencil - kiwi ornaments


Totara tree in coloured pencil from memory


graphite - HB and 4B


nanny goat pen and graphite


vase in Coloured pencil


more found horses acrylic and pen


my car




Form a shot I got of a wax eye in our garden - coloured pencil


coloured pencil. Although the moleskine notebook is good I did not push this to take the maximum layers but left sketchy


ink Macrocarpa trunk. I love these trees so full of character. The lines of them bordering farmers' field are thining. The silhouettes of their stately shapes are still eye-catching


Acrylic from my own photo