Sketchy 141/142

…saw a ceramic tree of life in Julie’s apartment whilst watching old episodes of Mod Squad….

….thought….”I wonder if I could make one of those”…

….”but with tentacles”….

…(no surprises there)…..

…yes…yes, I think I could make one of those….

…if I had some air dry clay at hand…..

…(stay tuned!)….

Paintbook Twoo/3

…holy crap…

…I haven’t posted a paintbook page since before I had covid….

…that’s like September last year!….

….and this is what covid did to my painter brain….

…was going to try and emulate the background-circle effect as seen in the last post….

…with something in the fore ground…

…covid brain neglected to process that in sketchbook I was doing the foreground first and the circles were generating from points on said foreground, not appearing as a fixed/regimented background….

…like the one I’d just finished producing….

…over two pages…

…mmm… thank you covid brain….

…(at least I know I can paint circles, right?)…

Sketchy 140

…another return to the previous sketch book….

…this one is is bit tentacly….

…(note the circley background…it’s relevant to the next post)…

Sketchy 139

…for the first few pages of a new sketch book I’m always at a loss as to what to draw….(exacerbated by post covid bullstuff in this case)…

…so I tend to go back to what I was doing in the previous book and give that another go….

….just to get the ball rolling as it were

Sketchy 138

…hot on the heels of “last page”, we have….

…it’s “first page”…

…it’s a double spread….

…and the beginning of the next volume of sketchbook….

Sketchy 137

…last page….

…in this sketchbook….

…(twenty pages in on the next)….

…mmm….sketchbook….

Sketchy 136

…ooo…first couple of pages in the sketchbook post covid…..

…waaay back in October….

…felt like a real chore at the time and brain fog made me think that I wasn’t hitting the mark at all compared to pre covid scrawlings….

…but upon reflection…

Sketchy 135

…just in time to miss xmas….

…something in seasonal colours…..

…jingle bells….

Sketchy 134

…the concept was all going swimmingly….

..till it started to identify as a swastika (bottom left)…

…then the whole shebang had to be relegated to “seemed like a good idea at the time”…

….thankfully it’s not an idea I desperately needed to fill a an idea-void…

…it shan’t be missed….

Sketchy 133

….number something or other in a series of quite a few…

….fliiiiiiies…..

…(oh…and “living the doom”…)….