Blind Drawing!

Most of these are for a swap on ATCs for All hosted bt AnnD, but they are very addictive so I made a few extras.

The idea is to draw a face with your eyes closed and then to make it into a character.

I've added a bit about each character at the side as well.

The images are drawn using Promarkers and black artist pen, with a bit of white gel pen.

The backgrounds were created using collage, inks, acrylic paints and pens.

Mushrooms!

These are for a hand drawn and painted mushroom swap.  The blue one is acrylic paint.  The red and yellow ones are done with Promarkers, black fineliner and white gel pen, and the purple one is coloured pencils on black paper.

Mermaids

These are for a swap on ATCs for All.  I've drawn the mermaids using Promarkers, PITT Artist Pen, white gel pen and Sakura Stardust pens (although the shimmer unfortunately doesn't show up on the photos.

For the background, I've used tissue paper, Cosmic Shimmer Sprays and acrylic paint.

Funky Hair

These are for another swap on ATCs for All.  The backgrounds are created using inks, water spray, rubber stramping and acrylic paints.  I've used vintage images and given them funky hairstyles which I've drawn using coloured pencils, altered their makeup a bit also using coloured pencils, added some pen outlines and printed words.  These were great fun to do.

I think this one looks like Boy George!  (It's the makeup, I think).

A Bit of Doodling

These are a couple of zentangle style doodles I did a couple of weeks ago.  I love doing these as I can do them anywhere.  I added a bit of colour using Promarkers.

Feeling Blue

In complete contrast to my previous post, here are some pretty flowers!
Done using alcohol inks and gel pens.

Inspired by Clive Barker

These are some ATCs I made inspired by the artwork of Clive Barker, for a swap on ATCs for All.

I did them using oil pastels, which I have to say is easier said than done when working on an ATC scale!

I can't seem to get over the obsession with all things grim and gory. Still, it's better than that bout of prettyitis I had a while back!