Day One 60 Days of Birds Mixed Media Challenge

Rodney

6x6 inches.

Pastels, graphite, and white Signo gel pen on black scrapbooking paper.

Happy Birthday to Me!

Lamy Al-Star fountain pen in dark lilac.

Not knowing any better I ordered the fine tip nib.  It is now filled with lilac ink!

Posies with Bird

Watercolor and pen on mixed media paper.

WIP - Nocturne Series

 



Nocturne Series - Now for some stitching.  

 Birds in Tree Stencil design on kona cotton fabric painted with tsukineko inks, birds outlined with copic pen, timtex batting and aurifil cotton thread.

Oooh Stencils

 

Yesterday something absolutely wonderful arrived in the mail for my approval, my sample stencil from one of my own designs "Birds in Tree"!  I've been playing with it ever since it arrived, and of course the inevitable wait time for layers of gesso to dry had to be endured, but over all I'm having a blast this afternoon!

 

More layer as these two layers should be dry and ready for the next several processes, which includes some ink/pen techniques and then more layering.  I see some numbers and text in this piece as well. 

 

Tomorrow I will have some fabric samples to show and tell. 

Experiments in Sketching

Layers of ink, water color, and pen on watercolor paper. Inspired by Lascaux.

Cottonwood Stand

A beginning sketch on cotton fabric, more pen and ink and then some stitching and then maybe I'll rust and compost it for some additional color.

My favorite Sycamore Tree.

Stand of Cottonwood Trees at Bjorkboda Marsh

Acrylic Plate

General Etching Pen with replacable tip.

Acrylic plate for etching for printmaking.

Wet Studio

It's time to get back into the wet studio, for starters I'm running out of hot pink silk organza! But I also have a strong yen to do some pen and ink drawings and a bit of watercolor, you can pretty much expect to see it make it's way into cloth or onto an art quilt somehow ;-)