explorations in creativity
What a wonderful month of mark making it has been in The Painted Diaries. I didn't use my sumi ink quite as much as I had planned due to being out and about much of the time. But I found I really enjoyed my Pentel brush pen, too. So lovely to rediscover art supplies that …
Lots of traveling around and seeing friends this week! Drawing comic panels containing several people can be tricky but is also lots of fun. Even more challenging for me is drawing animals. Rosie the dog ended up looking like a black furry blob in my solstice night comic. I did slightly better in my beach …
This week I discovered how beautiful the shades of watered-down sumi ink can be. It is so deeply dark when undiluted. Watered down, it transforms into shades of tea, coffee, pebbles and stone... Scribbles Running a water-soaked brush along the edge of freshly painted ink Downward facing dashes become bamboos Blobs Stones and pebbles Tree-ish …
These diary comics are so deeply satisfying and seem to capture the feeling of the moments I most cherish from my day. I think it's no coincidence that I have hardly taken any photos since I began this project! Here are some cherished moments from the last week.
This week I've been noticing how marks can have quite a powerful effect. I found myself feeling uncomfortable with marks that looked like stitches and then uplifted a day or two later by the triumphant curve of arches. Perhaps it is due to their simplicity, that marks are an undiluted communication of gesture and energy. …
I've really enjoyed the past week in my diary comics. Here are the last seven days of diary entries. I hope you enjoy them too!
A new month has begun in The Painted Diaries and the theme is mark making. Time to get out my sumi ink and special brush that I have hardly touched since I bought them for a cartooning class three years ago. After so much exuberant colour last month, I’m looking forward to the simplicity of …
May saw me playing around with different styles in my micro-season journal which kept things lively and interesting. Much of this influence came from other projects I am working on: cartoon me crossed over from my 100 days of diary comics; Hundertwasser's bright colours made an appearance from The Painted Diaries; and later on in …
Nearly two thirds of the way through the 100 day project. My how time flies!
In recent weeks, I have been working away in the broom closet of Art Witch Academy, creating a shadow album under the tutelage of the Mistress of Shadows herself, Vanessa Oliver-Lloyd. I chose to work with a beautiful poem by Linda Hogan called ‘The Lost Girls’ from her collection Dark. Sweet. My theme was about loving and …
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