Sketchbook Product Pages and Scribble Faces

I have also been doing sketchbook pages!  See, I’m really not a slacker.  All the time.  In every way.  So yeah, anyway, Jerry’s Artarama sent me some free acrylic guoache paints to try out with my last very big order, so I did!  They are Turner Acryl Gouache, and they gave me a red, a yellow, and a blue.  They are FUN!  For one thing, they dry almost instantly after you lay them down, which makes for some interesting experiments for someone who likes spontaneous abstracts.  (Me me me!)  For another, their pigments are very vivid.  I will have to look into some other colors to try.  And no, they didn’t ask me to review these (please please please, art stores, send me free stuff to review!) and I am not getting compensated.  I just got free stuff cuz I have ordered so much stuff lately.  Here are the spreads done with them:

The page on the left above is mixed media, acrylic watered down with glaze added, water soluble graphite, yellow neon poster paint marker from Sharpie, and fuschia India ink.  The page on the right is more Turner Acryl Gouache.

I also played around with my new Prismacolor Premiere colored pencils on the right of this one, and did some more scribble sketches on the left:

I also did a mixed media page with the India ink and white acrylic paint:

And two pages of abstract watercolor experimentation:

Those are actually what made me want to try the larger watercolor paintings.

And hey, I’m totally going to count my scribble sketches as my ‘catch-up’ faces.  Heehee…now I believe I’m only 2 behind.

10 Second Scribble Sketches

This is so fun!  It’s an exercise from Carla Sonheim’s book, “Drawing Lab:  52 Creative Exercises to Make Drawing Fun!”  And they do!  In this one, you take a pen and make a quick, 1-second scribble.  Then you look at it to see what you see in it, then you add as few lines and marks as necessary to bring out your picture, then you add color!  For this one, I had Shan do the scribbles and I did the drawing.

Here is the before:

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And here is the after:

And here is our favorite of all of them:

“Snake in an apron with coffee”

And here is our second favorite, which is upside down in the image above:

“Fox”

I’m low energy, low motivation today after doing my morning face, so this was a great way to keep my pen moving on the paper.  I’ll definitely do some of these in my Sketchbook, and I thought it might be fun for you to see them, too.