Sketchbook

Do you remember this guy?

The painting I am doing for Annie on clay board? I thought I should just give up on this one right away.

Well this is what ol’ Dr. Redgy looks like so far.

I’m still working on this one, but I really like it now. It’s looking better than I ever thought it would after that start. I also really like clay board now that I have learned a few ways to manipulate the paint on it.  I went back to this after I already redrew and started painting it again on paper.  I think I will be using clay board for some experimenting in the future.

I have gotten a few books that were suggested by the very creative Myrna Wacknov.  She is always experimenting and playing around with many different ideas.  One of the books I already love is Drawing Labs for Mixed Media Artists. So with out further ado here are the results from my first lab.

My first set of Cats.

These cats are from my imagination. I am not comfortable drawing from an image in my head. I am impressed with all of them. They all turned out better than I thought. Although there are a few that clearly are much better than others.

Cats With Color

This is me taking it further. I wanted to experiment and go to the next step so I went out and bought a set of markers. I have no idea how to use them, but I am sure I will have fun learning.

I had a lot of fun and it really helped motivate me for the rest of the week. So much fun.

This is Redgy. He is my clay board experiment.  I must say it’s a bit frustrating to go from the last painting to one that is in the ugly stage right from the beginning.

I have done about 3 steps to this. First is the brown one, second is the black (except eyes and nose) and third is the red and blue. I just put in the eyes and nose after the red and blue. I’m hoping that a few more layers on the rest, to darken some areas up it will look much better.

I think there’s a 50/50 shot that this will come out okay.

Everyone that I have seen use clay board makes it look so easy. LOL. I guess I’m just a paper girl.

Tux sleeping and Tux’s eye  

Tux watching my roommate eat 

Another of Tux sleeping