Mixed Media Horses

In  Carla's  2014: Year of the Fairy Tale class, we are on our seventh fairy tale - and our prep work involves horses literally drawn from one's own imagination  :-)

After finishing the suggested 60 line drawings of horses, I was looking for another way to create twenty more.  I used a simple technique from another of Carla's online classes, Blobimal Artists Books, random collage pieces adhered to the paper and from there "finding" and defining the horse with line work.

These are some of my favorite horses created this way:

 

The random collage elements get my creative juices flowing :-)

"Walkies" and some happy news

Yay, "Walkies" is done.  This is the next interim picture:

If you want to see more of my process, check out my two previous blog posts.

And the completed drawing:

"Let's go 'Walkies'".

The pastels were fussy to work with compared with colored pencils, but in the end I like the result.  I think I will use them again, too :-)

This sort of landscape really pulls me in - I get lost in imaginary structures and creatures; so I have to ensure that I stop frequently to assess it over all and then decide whether to proceed or not.  I think I stopped at a good point...

And the happy news?  My painting, "Flowers In The Mist" sold a few weeks ago:

It is a great feeling {big smile}.

Progress

The landscape is progressing.  Here are a couple of pictures of the process:

Adding pastels.

Unfinished but it already has a name: "Walkies".

I thought using pastels to add color might be less time-consuming but I believe it is taking even more time.  But, I love the effect.

Drawn into imaginary landscape...

As I mentioned in an earlier post, lately I feel compelled to return to drawing; the subject has been birds but yesterday I just wanted to make a landscape - an imaginary one.  Years ago I used to make 22" x 30" pen & ink and colored pencil drawings - like this one:

I used to make a complete layout in pencil before inking.

I was curious to see how I would draw my imaginary places now.  I have a couple of views of my process:

Smaller format: 6" x 8". Sketchy layout then straight into inking.

Changes happen :-)

Inking completed.

And now the color decision.  I would like to do something different so pastels perhaps???

Bird Variation

I have been in the mood to draw, draw, draw... specifically in ink.  I made a variation of the bird in my previous post - only this time I began with little circles and an active line using a Pigma Micron .005 pen.

When the line work was finished I added color with pastel pencils.  Ta-dah, a blue green purple bird:

O my goodness, another bird...

Mixed Media Br-r-r-d

O my, the weather is changing quickly.  More drizzly, cloudy days and cooler temperatures than I remember from years past.

So yesterday I was in my studio looking out at the trees and watching wedges of geese flying off to wherever they go this time of year and this image came to me:

Am I a braven?  Am I a rudgie?

This is a sort of a budgie-like bird with raven coloring who is of course wearing vermillion ear muffs... why not :-)

Pop of color

I continue to draw birds (!) and this is the latest one in pastels and ink - a little guy with a nice red belly:

Warbling a personal tune  :-)

Remy and I are still enjoying the sunshine, mixed now and again with fast-moving rain showers.  Here's my boy smiling away because he had just finished chasing his tennis ball around the yard:

Play time...