More Watercolor Transfers on fabric, this time with ballpoint pen added.
I MIGHT be getting over my fear of sketchbooks/art journals. In recent years I’ve started so many journals only to abandon them the minute I ruin a page. More recently I couldn’t work in books at all, I was so blocked. (This was sad for me because I started out 15 years ago making artist books, and so I really do love the book format!)
My solution was to draw on single sheets of 8.5″x11″ cover stock, or 5″x7″ sheets of Fabriano watercolor paper (140#, hot press). However recently I thought I’d try again, and bought a 9″x12″ spiral bound blank book with watercolor-like paper in it.
It’s working! Somehow, the fact that I can rip out a page if needed (since it’s spiral bound) has freed me up a lot. I’m actually drawing in a book again. Wow!
The above dog is a re-worked “one-liner.”
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Love the dog! He’d make a great t-shirt design. But Carla, think cats… cats, cats, cats……. =^..^=
LOVE the dots! (one of my all time favourite art unblocker books is on e that Peter H Reynolds wrote for kids, called “The Dot”.)
I am also LOVING the dawg!
Re journals – I HAVE to make a huge ugly mess on the very front page of any new journal. Then it’s “ruined” so it doesn’t matter what else I do in it. Otherwise – they sit utterly pristine and unused. *sigh*
I also have a bad habit of starting new journals and then abandoning them… just in the last month or so I have managed to use up one like this, just ignoring the older pages at the front. Again, quite freeing – it’s never going to be a “prefect” art journal do I can do whatever in it!
I love the lines on that dog – did you use a brush?
You might be interested in this:
http://www.jilliantamaki.com/sketchbook/2009/06/thoughts-on-sketchbook.html
I had no idea you’d started out in artist books. I don’t know why I would have known that, but still, good to know. Any chance you might show us some of your books? That dog is just beautiful!
Hi Carla!
Just catching up with you. Congratulations on “unblocking” yourself. I just read this great book called “The War of Art” (Pressfield) You may enjoy it.