World Book Night postcard project

Earlier this year I sent off my postcard entry for the World Book Night postcard project organised by the Book Arts Centre at the University of the West of England.

 

All the entries can be viewed here.

My entry was a copy of a drawing done on a sketch outing

Last week I received this package of goodies together with one of the postcards sent in by another participant.

Transferring lino images to fabric

Needing some more designs for my small embroidery samples, I tried out rubbings of lino cuts using Inktense pencils on my tea stained calico.

On the left, I "set" the Inktense using a brush and water.

In the middle, I wrapped some of the fabric behind the lino to minimise movement as I did the rubbing.  It was then sprayed lightly with water to set the colour.

The one on the right I have left dry.

I did attempt to keep the pencil rubbing as close to the edge of the images as possible, but there has been some staining of the surrounding fabric.

August issue of Drawing Attention

The Urban Sketchers monthly zine 

Sketch for a concertina book

Computer problems have left me attempting to add this post on my iPad mini - not ideal! 

My daughter and I were given the opportunity to spend a few days in Devon a couple of weeks ago. We took all our food supplies with us - we didn’t want to break our routine of isolating as much as possible. The weather was good, excellent walking, no tv or internet so our evenings were spent reading or playing Scrabble or card games. I decided to do a panoramic sketch of the long, narrow garden and since returning home have redrawn this on a 30” x 7”  length of watercolour paper which should result in a finished concertina book of approximately 4” x 7”.

This is an enlarged scan of my original sketches which I have taped together. Because my drawing was done in different stages as I moved along the garden there are some odd perspectives - some I have adjusted slightly, others I have not. Coloured pencil has been added as a guide for the final painted version.