Coincidence!

Just started reading chapter 6 and see it is printing with foam sheets.  Here is some I did a couple of weeks ago.  A pair of temporary curtains for the downstairs loo to make it more toddler friendly. I cut the individual petals, centres, leaves and grass from funky foam and used mostly fabric paint but a bit of acrylic.  I thoroughly enjoyed myself too.

Module 6 - chapter 5

Repeats

6.5.1 Cog
Section of cog from old water wheel on the farm This is coloured using Neo oil pastel in brown and cream for the cog which acts as a resist and then a wash of green gouache for background

I used the card template of the cog to feather Markel oil stick over the edge.  Very enjoyable in a Zen sort of way. My husband thought this should be called 'alien audience'.

6.5.2.Weathervane

I got off to a rather slow start with this exercise, but got into it after a while. I found putting the paper on top of a sheet of transparency paper stopped it slipping around. I didn't end up gluing all of them, some were just placed and scanned.  This meant that I felt much freer to keep trying new ways.

a)

b)

c)

d)

This next one is my favourite, the pale tissue at the bottom is taken over by the bright pink background
e)

6.5.3. Fern

Using a grid. The original was a small fern growing out of the wall
a)

b)

6.5.4. Barn

I took an outline of the barn, then used a section of it in a larger scale to use with it.

I thought using a purple marker pen might be more sympathetic than black.

I liked my first arrangement the best, so coloured it as below. Again I have used Inktense. One disadvantage is that sometimes there is more coloured pencil in one part of the drawing than another, which is more noticeable when it is gone over with water.  It doesn't matter really, but what sometimes starts out as fairly gentle colours gets brighter and brighter.   

This variation is the one above, copied and then cut diagonally with the middle reversed.

What a nice way to achieve an abstract composition.  Again a very enjoyable chapter.

Module 6 - chapter 4

6.4.1.   Taking a closer look

There are so many things on the farm that I like to draw, so I had to select something in particular and I decided on foxgloves.

A simple line drawing

a)

b)  pattern, closer up, using my grid.

c )  Using the view finder, closer up still, with  tone

d) Not very interesting leaf. I should have turned it round.

e) & f)

  

I thought it would be interesting to do more than one of each in different media, so the first is done with the flowers in oil pastel and the background Inktense. I found it quite liberating in a way to use oil pastels for this part as they are chunky and it isn't possible to be too 'fussy' with them.  White was used and blended to make the paler parts. The second is just Inktense pencils and blocks.

g) & h)

g)  White oil pastel for a resist inside flowers. Pen and gouache for purple, Promarker for the green parts. Inktense blocks for background.

h) Oil pastel for flowers and stem, watercolour for background.

i) & j)

Once again i) is oil pastel and white is used as a resist. Background is gouache  

j) is a bit scary isn't it?  But just to experiment it is done in felt tip.  Not really my style at all.

K) a leaf in Inktense.

This was a really interesting chapter because it has made me appreciate the advantages and pleasures of mixing different media.  Also I shall be using oil pastel in the future now I have come to love it more.