Bits and bobs by nature

The current Year of the Spark lesson - go out and gather things (as if you were a crow) and then use what you found to (1) create something and (2) create something else to share, show appreciation, give back.

Although Spring is here and there are green leaves and a few blossoms out, most of what I gathered was one version or another of straw- colored.

This is the "created" thing:

Happy little critter.

See? Very sweet :-)

 And this is the thing to be shared:

A scroll with a message.

"Deployed" in some shrubs.

 

The message :-)

                              

Inking

I completed an imaginary landscape:

It is waiting for color...but I haven't chosen a medium.

I documented this drawing from the initial sketch and over time the changes and additions.

Sketch:

 

Interim 1:

 Interim 2:

 

Interim 3:

Interim 4:

Documenting my process helped me to limit the population of objects.  Each time I stopped to scan the drawing's progress, I could evaluate the density of images and rein-in or just stop the addition of imaginary things :-)

A bird in the hand...

which in this case is a bird critter:

Rubber stamps, yummy :-D

He's a pretty big stamp:

As a rookie stamp carver, I'm still experimenting material removal.

With Copic colors - hmmm, guess he has a crown now:

Perhaps he's an extremely tall duck???

I use my Copics more like watercolor - very little blending..