Cemetery Junction

I spent some time sketching at the cemetery today. You meet some weird characters if you stay there for too long but the weather was lovely and provided just the right contrast.

 

 

 

The Beauty in Decay

 

Hello everyone. :)

We've been given a new long-term project for University. It's to do with recording our lives and the things that excite us so basically doing lots of observational drawings. We also should consider the way we display all these drawings.

Since I'm mostly interested in capturing the beauty of decay in my works it was an obvious choice to pick an old book from a charity shop to work in instead of a brandnew, perfectly bound sketchbook without character. These old books really do have a lot of character and stories to tell - just as the things I like to observe with my drawings so I guess it's a suitable display. :)

Anyway, I splattered some paint all over the pages to cover up some of the images and texts in there and to create some very interesting pattern and textures as well as different colour schemes - for every drawing I do in there now I'll be able to pick the perfect background. I did use acrylics for this in combination with coffee and salt - my all time favourites. It definitely was a lot of fun and I'm very much looking forward to filling all those pages with drawings of strange things.♥

 

 

The first thing I put in there yesterday was a bunch of flowers. Actually I wanted to paint them some weeks ago when I got them but I never got down to do it... Fortunately though, because they've only gotten prettier with time and fit the theme of my book much better now so it was pure joy for me to draw them. ♥

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's for all the lovers out there who's love might not be in full bloom today but who patiently hold on to it because they know some day it will bloom again.♥

I hope you had a lovely St. Valentine's Day.

Location Drawing No. I

 This project is called 'Drawing Approaches' and quite a big part of it is location drawing. This means we're encouraged to travel to interesting places and record them in our sketchbooks - is there anything better than being an Illustration student? ^^ If only the weather would be slightly more friendly...
I've discovered the usefulness of water brushes though, which I barely put down these days. They allow me to effortlessly take my water colours everywhere and just start sketching. Brilliant stuff.
Anyway, here are some pages I filled being out and about Bournemouth and Marwell Wildlife. Enjoy.♥

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nature Journal

So I've just finished the first Unit - we were supposed to fill a sketchbook according to a theme each of us had to pick out of a lottery wheel. I luckily picked myself 'nature' and was so pleased with it, since it's one of my main sources of inspiration and most of my work is hugely influenced by nature anyway as you might have noticed.:)  I still feel sorry for those poor souls that picked 'politics' or 'maths'...
Anyway, I had so much fun with this project and tried some new stuff like painting onto rotten leaves..:)
Here are some photographs and scans which I think are pretty self-explanatory and don't need any further comments. Hope you'll enjoy having a look through them. :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

....oh my. Instead of these endlessly long posts I make lately I should maybe consider making shorter ones more often...: /