Art Journal Fun

Having fun in my journal! Still trying out new toys and techniques, but also getting rid of some ideas. I hope to turn some of these spreads into canvas art at some point.

Mixed media, too many to name, but I will tell you that the coffee was done with soft pastels. In case you were wondering :)

Imagination is more important than Knowledge
Mixed media on journal spread

Morning Coffee
Mixed media on journal spread

Plein inside

Tried doing some en plein air painting, but it was way too windy (stupid coastal area...), so I went about it slightly differently ;)

Upper sketch: soft pastels
Lower sketch: Artbars & white acrylics
Painting right: Cobra oil paints

Hawaii Men

More portrait practice!

Danny 'Danno' Williams, Steve McGarrett, Chin Ho Kelly
Hawaii Five-0
Soft pastels

Some more art

Did a few more things. School year's almost over and then I hope to have more time to do more art (while staying in the US over summer, among other things).

Egypt
Art bars, acrylics

Backyard Sketch
Watercolors, Moleskin

Steve Mcgarrett / Alex O'Loughlin, Hawaii 5-0
Art bars, acrylics

Steve Mcgarrett / Alex O'Loughlin - Hawaii 5-0
Soft pastels

My Little Brother in the Sky continued

Hello!

Though I'm super busy at the moment, I haven't been completely inactive. Been working on my storybook idea. Redid the earlier illustration and played around with it in Indesign. I like how it came out.

I know the clouds on the left page look off. They've been cut out and copy/pasted from the right page. I still need to make individual clouds for the left page.

Little Brother in the Sky Cover

The cover. Sort of. Not entirely suited to be the cover, since I didn't take the backside and lettering into account, but whatever.

Mixed media: acrylics, collage, charcoal, soft pastels

Little Brother in the Sky

Yay! Finished the final illustration! It's from the first chapter of a story I'm working on.

Mixed media: collage, acrylics, soft pastels, charcoal

Op de Hemelweg / On Heaven's Road

A second illustration for my story - de Hemelweg or Heaven's Road. This one, and Sarah, both are elaborate sketches for a bigger illustration for chapter one of my story. One more of these sketches and then I'll work on the bigger one.

Mixed media: collage, acrylics, charcoal, soft pastel

Edit: Finished the last one as well! Meet Uk (Little One). He keeps teasing his sister, even from Heaven. Not with crayons and paint on new dresses, but through the weather.

So now I'm ready (I hope) to work on the big illustration for this story. Yay!

Again, mixed media: acrylics, collage, soft pastel, charcoal

Trees and Nudes

Some trees for a tree swap and figure drawing for a figure art swap.

All kinds of media: markers, watercolor sticks and pencils, ink, acrylics, gel pen




Acrylic backgrounds (blue, silver, gold, bronze), soft pastels and white acrylics for figures

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays and art time! Yay!

Some ATCs I came up with for the Christmas/New Year's art-a-thons at both ATC sites.
Ink, watercolors, gel pens, acrylics


Ballet series with a design I made and liked
Oil pastels, ink, scratching tool (bent paperclip)


The Four Stories (on how certain animals came into being in this particular world in these particular regions):

The Fire Caves: a Picturer tells us how horses were created from the salt oceans
The Ice Caves: an Imager tells us how ice bears were formed from snow and ice
The Forest Caves: a Shaman of the forest elves tells us how squirrels were made by the trees themselves
The Desert Caves: a Sand Painter tells us how the desert sands created camels

Acrylics, ink, soft pastels