Journal 52 - Week 31, 32 & 33

The last three weeks journal pages for 'Journal 52' are: 

Week 31: 10 Minute Challenge

For this I simply wet the page and then used water colours to make 'splodges' which I then turned into birds and other animals.

Week 32: Perspective

Week 33: Comfort Zone

I enjoyed this week - once thinking about it for a while this is what I came up with.

By stepping out of my comfort zone by joining in with this Journal 52 Challenge and trying things I would never have attempted before and 'showing' my work  I have learnt so much and had a lot of fun and will continue to do so.

Watercolour books

A couple of new art books arrived for me on Sunday thanks to my lovely husband who is keen to indulge my new found hobby.  We saw them in a book shop in Oxford on Saturday and he ordered them for me from Amazon to arrive the following day.

They both look like they will be really helpful/.

This book has idea, tips and techniques from four different artists and looks great - I have spent one evening looking through it and hope for some more time to spend reading it.

This one has a series of exercises in it which is great.  I am looking forward to working though this book.  I have already learnt a bit about perspective which I think will help a lot.

I tried a few this afternoon.

I then painted a small postcard size painting from one of the ideas in the book.  There is actually a template for this, but as this was much smaller I sketched it myself.

Lastly I thought I would try my hand at some painting 'plein air' on Sunday while at Wrest Park

This is the result.  

Three Post Card Watercolours.

I have been painting some postcard sized water colour paintings...

I did this one just before I went away.

The next two I did today.

This was an experiment...

Quite pleased with this one.

Journal 52 - Week 30

Funny how one thing can lead to another....I was thinking that the prompt for last week 'Positive Change' was challenging in that I really didn't know whether I could actually 'do' Postive Change...that is until I finished this weeks prompt which was 'The Road Less Travelled'  This journal entry just happened, and it all poured out and I think it was positive indeed - so perhaps one thing led to another?

You can find the prompt  here:  

This is what happened!

Journal 52 - Weeks 28 & 29

 The prompt for Week 28 was 'Mail Art' and can be found here.

This was my take on it.  My attempts at 'tea staining' were well...pretty atrocious really!

The prompt from Week 29 was 'Postive Change' and can be found here.

This is mine....

Still working on this week's prompt.

Every Day in July 1- 13

So I am continuing to challenge myself with 'Every Day in July'

#1 Caricature - I have never done anything like this before, so it was quite a challenge.   I decided to draw my friend Jane holding one of her newly born alpacas.

#2 National Icons

#3 Desert

#4 Summertime - this was supposed to be 'Henry' on the beach in NZ....not very happy with this, but have decided to record the 'warts and all'

#5 Yuck - I really detest flies, but can't help admire the amazing colours of some.

#6 Something in my pocket - seems I did two of these  - my pocket....

...and my son's pocket.

#7 Something Reflective

#8 Dreamscape

#9 Shadows

#10 Horsing around - my horse - drawn from a photo I took of him the last time I saw him alive.

#11 Puzzled - Hands are VERY HARD!

#12 Fall - I wanted to draw someone falling, but all attempts were disastrous - yup some 'warts and all' I am not sharing!   so did this instead.

#13 Stones - taken from a photo I took at Boothill Cemetery in Tombstone last year.

Painting with Water Colours.

After painting for a year now I decided it was about time I tried to also use watercolours as well as acrylics, so here are my first attempts.

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Finally one I have already shown in a mosaic, which was my first watercolour...

Every Day in June - Art: last three days.

The last three prompts and pictures for June.

#27 Vacation

My friend paddling in the estuary.

I did this one with watercolours - found it really difficult, I have a lot to learn!

#28 'Spit Shine' 

A shiny ladybird seen on a rose.

Used simple colouring pencils for this.

#29 Religious Icon

Wasn't really sure what to do here, so chose a Tiki, a Maori icon.  

Pen & watercolour.

Journal 52 - Week 24 & 26 & 27

I realised I had put the wrong prompt number on last weeks post which as actually prompt 25!  So here is Week 24, the prompt of which was 'Silly Animal Zoo'

The prompt for Week 26 was 'Elements' and below is my take on it.

Week 27 'Kindness'

Every Day in June - Art

Another online art group I have joined is 'Every Day in June'   I only started on the 19th June as I hadn't heard about it before then...but looking forward to continuing and also taking part in July.

My aim is to do all of these in a short amount of time, not spending too long over them.

The prompt for this one was 'Fashion' so I drew Stevie (one of my Sasha dolls), in her favourite outfit.

 A little bit of fun for 'Nursery Rhyme'

Animal 

Very simple for today.

My first attempt at watercolour was inspired by the prompt 'Rain'.

This one stumped me as we don't really use the terminology 'In the Can' here, we tend to use the word tin instead of can, and in terms of rubbish, the word bin instead of can.  In the process of trying to decide what to draw my eye was drawn to my 'tin' money box that I use to collect funds for Alzheimers Research - donating £1 of every item I make and sell.

Percy is sweet so attempted to draw him from a photography I took last year.

# 26 was Night Lights, so I thought I would try drawing some candles and a brass candle holder I have....  Hmmm....definitely need to work on this technique!

#27 Something I collect - well where was I going to start?  I decided to use my GA Henty book collection for this.  I took a photo, used an editing programme to turn it into a 'pencil sketch', printed it out and then painted it.

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I've had some fun experimenting with water colours.