Mermaid

I re-cut the mermaid smaller, painted and inked the pieces.

I glued some of the basic pieces together

a close up

more close ups

I'm going to collage her onto hand-painted paste paper.

Mermaid experiment

I was playing with a drawing I did a while back and decided to see what it would look like as a mermaid.

Then I turned the drawing into simple shapes adding an arm and a rock, and picking out some flowers.

I cut the shapes out of watercolor paper and did some doodles and sloppy washes. The shapes were pretty odd, so I wasn't sure what would happen.

I did a trial put together:

She still needs some work.

I'm going to re-cut it smaller to fit into my journal.

Faces and flourishes

More inking and cut files. This time faces.

I cut .svg files from my fancy faces collection. They are actually silhouettes from this paper doll set. The set includes the hair, faces and necks so that they can be cut in different colors or layered for a printing plate. 

 I printed this with Versatex inks using a Gelli pad. I doodled embellishment when it was dry. I will be exploring this technique again.

The parts were layered and glues to produce a plate which was placed on the pad. While I plan to do more experimenting with this,I really love the way the paint dried on the plates. I embellished them with markers.

Antique cabinet again

This is one of my favorite cutting files. After I finish testing it I hope to make it available as a down load.

I painted the cabinet pieces after I cut them out.

I started auditions for  cut outs and pieces I had
been doodling on.

I glued and taped everything down while trying to
decide what to put inside.

This was so much fun to make.

More cabinet art here:

Birds

Antique cabinet 

Dollhouse

The cutting files and printables will be available in my Etsy shop.

Paper -doll dress doodles

More doodling on paper-doll dresses.

I cut the images with my scan n cut. Then I water colored them. I used my favorite pen, Sakura graphic pen in sepia.

 The edges are "aged" with an old brown stamp pad.

 

inktober

My first project is doodling white gel pen over painted 

watercolor doodles. Taking a few scrap ends of 145lb 

watercolor paper I created some watercolor shapes.

 Then I took a gel pen and made some marks

Before long I had a few of these

I also did some with a brush and paint

I am going to revisit this

Inktober

These are the supplies I am using for inktober.

brushes, some glue watercolor ink markers,black ink marker white gel pen

tube watercolor, most water color, palettes

more watercolor mixtures

I will be adding more pens and paper substrates.
My goal is to play with contrast and pattern.

Inktober Links to all posts here

What is Inktober? A 31 day inking art challenge. My goal is to improve/play with patterns and doodles I create.

I want to get used to doing 30 day or other time limited challenges.

I will be placing the links here.

Supplies

Gel-pen Lines

Witch dress 

Paper-doll dress doodle

Witch dress printable 

Witch color Page  

Antique Cabinet again

Faces and Flourishes