Something About Nothing

And here are all the pages. Time to go make more.  

This will be the last post with sketchbook photos.  I will do one more post with a video of the entire sketchbook.  These are a few fun random pages I think this would be a really fun wall paper. Love this color combination. Trying to come up with 15 different patterns can be surprisingly difficult. Thank goodness for Pinterest. This page started out completely in the shades of brown and it reminded me of a calico cat, so I blacked out everything that wasn't the cat, and put them on a pink and black quilt. This page is an example of times when you need to walk away. After I finished the pages, I really hated the left side, and loved the right side. I was very tempted to paint over the left side, and make it more like the right. I decided to step away and now I have decided it is all well and good together. An attempt at giving the circles some shape with pattern. Some are more rounded than others. It's fun to draw designs along a line and then fade out the background. Lots of ...

 There were many mirrored inkblots in the sketchbook which challenged my imagination. This craziness started with a set of inkblots that looked like the one below. Starship Enterprise again? Horseshoe? Stingray? What do you see? The original inkblot can be seen on the left with it's reimagined mirror image on the right. I immediately saw these people who were bundled up in a parka, walking on a puddle. Maybe I should have extended the water across the entire page??? No original photo of this one, but I did immediately see elephant ears and trunk. Decided they were Elephant-ducks on ice skates. More inkblots were at the sides and were made in to the city with their reflections on the ice. I played with collaging a face out of this inkblot. Looking back I think I should have continued this idea. Oh well. This complex inkblot took on a whole different life. Two "people" (Maybe bears?) chatting chummily in the center, and then two odd chaps in large billed ball caps, each wit...

 I like drawing simple buildings and creating imaginary cities. This blob, that honestly looks more like the Starship Enterprise or a sideways creature, than a city, challenged me to become a city on a mountain side.  I took the challenge by watering down the dye and dragging it about to create the mountain, and then drew the city over the top. My friend, Sonja, said it reminded her of the Pussy Hats woman made and wore to the 2017 Women's March. The left hand page started with a flipped replica of the Starship, and became a city on a red hill. This page had a few beginnings. I didn't photograph each variation. Whatever was on there first, I really didn't like it so I painted it over with gesso, and then again with paint. I think that is how it went. Anyway, I loved the color combination, and painted a few pages in these colors. Once I started drawing the city, I wasn't sure if it would fill up the entire page. When I got to this point, I thought it might be nice to pai...

 I like throwing in pages from some atlas' I have laying around.  They don't have any special meaning. I just like maps. Was trying to see what I could do with some washi tape, a polka dot piece of paper, and a black marker. The black out poem and heart illustration belong with the next page of the book. The map is actually the opposite side of the page below.  Went a bit more in depth here. Right side is the atlas with a few of my additions. Left side is my imaginary map. A continuation of the atlas. A bit more color added to add more depth to the land masses, as well as a big ol' splash of water in the upper right hand corner. I like drawing sea creatures coming out of the water. I like this page. And speaking of sea creatures. . . . . .these two sperm whales made their way to the inside cover. They are enjoying a meal of something delicious. Like the inside cover whales, many of my drawings come about from the drips that duplicated themselves within the pages. After dr...

 A number of pages in my sketchbook were filled with flowers.  These drawings are always a way for me to unwind. Not my favorite. Was experimenting with the swirl and didn't like how it came out, but it's just a sketchbook piece. Sketchbooks are for experiments. Laura Kemshall suggested stitching on some pages, and putting oil pastel down as a resist. I wasn't sure where to go next so, flowers behind circles it became. To fill or not to fill, that was the question. Obviously, I didn't go all in. Black and white was good, but . . . . . .sometimes it is fun to experiment with color too. These flowers were inspired by the last of the flowers in my backyard. It was a lovely day in the fall and I took the cat out so he could roam while it was nice. I used an old stool as my table.