WORK IN PROGRESS...the sequel

For those of you who follow me on Instagram  you will be aware that at the beginning of August I ran a 3 day Sketch Book Master Class at the yard:ARTspace

As part of the workshop I develop a demonstration sketch book along side everyone. I completed 6 pages of the 20 pages in the book. Excited by the workshop I then announced to the world (well those following me on Facebook and Instagram) that I would complete the book doing a page a day.

Each day I spent no more that an hour. 

working on this document.

Keeping it small helps and adding eco dyed pages that speak for themselves takes the pressure off.

An hour a day means that the images begin to have their own confidence. A time limit means that less is more is a built in factor.

So where do I go now that I have formed this habit?

Into my A2 sketch book and work at a bigger scale. Here you can see the comparison.

How do I start a mixed media page? Especially a big one?

I randomly cover the page with gum arabic transfer prints, then Quink, then ink.

That will be the closest I get to abstract...as I will then start to draw my theme with white acrylic paint.

It is now difficult to explain how I work into this, but adding, covering and adding again using

paint, stencils and collage

until the image is doing what I want...

another difficult concept to explain.

Now where? Onto fabric I think...???