More pages from Sketchbook 26

Painted background, flower stamp, wax crayon, collaged stag and butterfly

practice at drawing faces [copied from a TV paper]

collaged, painted, drawing with pens and promarkers . I like the look of the bleed thru from the promarkers on the next page

Drawings from Sketchbook 19

For the picture above I used brush pens and the three below I used watercolours and liner pens. I textured the pages first with newsprint.

Black Bag with Fringe

I've been using some of the fabrics from my stash again. The fringe came back from a student trip to a factory so I've had it a while. It was not a fringe really just a piece of frayed fabric and it has purple metallic threads running through it. The purple band is ribbon which I hand stitched on with running stitch. I gave the bag to my sister and she is using it to keep her knitting in.

I like eating these......

TAST 21 and SC

Take a Stitch Tuesday- this weeks stitch is butterfly chain stitch.

This is a new one for me and it is quite easy, having said that I kept doing it wrong, putting the thread around  the needle the wrong way. I've used screen printed fabric for the base and it does look a bit puckered in places but I think that is OK for this particular project, it is part of a fabric journal. Each chain is worked over three straight stitches but for one row I used wooden beads instead of the middle straight stitch.

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The Sketchbook Challenge

I thought I had better post my pictures before the month ends

The challenge this month is fruits and veggies

the cherries are painted with watercolours and white pen for the highlights

the apple was done with brush pens

and the banana is pen and watercolour

The Other Side

Today I've chosen two pages from sketchbook 14 and the other sides of these pages to show the bleed thru. I think the backsides are probably more interesting than the 'proper' side. I used promarkers.