Celtic Princess

The prompt at  Art - Journal  - Journey, this month is crown.  I have been working on this page for a while and when I saw the prompt I just knew I had to add a crown, albeit a small one.  Has to be as she would get it entangled in the branches, as she is a bit of a woodland dweller.

I used watercolours and two stamps - the Celtic knot and handwriting stamps.

While the next is strictly speaking not a journal page, it is in my journal as the drawing started off as a doodle, when I thinking of what type of illustration I needed for a story I am writing about a young Cat Prince called Ambrose (see my post for Sunday Sketches).  As you can see they all are wearing crowns! 

These two are Prince Ambrose parents – the King and Queen of a faraway island called Ambrosia.

Have a great rest of month creating journal pages everyone, and thanks for visiting,

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Bright and Cheerful

The prompt for this week at The Artist’s Playroom is lots of colour to cheer up the Northern Hemisphere’s dreadful winter.  That suits me as I am a colour junkie, well I thought I was.  However when I looked at the posts I have been putting up lately, I am not so sure, there is a heck of lot of blue creeping into my work!  Maybe it is the blue skies every day!

The above is a design that I am working on for a greeting card.  I’ve used watercolour pencils on hot pressed card.  I am not sure about the dimensions, think I need to lengthen it a bit, A work in progress!

Now for a bit of fun, because the above was quite fiddly to do, I needed to loosen up.  One of my fave ways is to use leftover card and play around with water colours, gouache and chalk pastels.  I usually mess around with the paint and then make squiggles with the pastels.  I love the way wet colours merge together with sometimes surprising results.

 The first one is only 3 in x 4 in, I thought I could see a face so drew it in with pastel.

The second one is actually A4. As I had a piece of card left over from some card that I was painting with gesso for my experiments with water soluble oil paints later in the week…

I used gouache for this one as I wanted the paint to be bold and the squiggles not so dominant.  Also, I waited for the paint to dry, whereas in the first one I used the pastel on wet paint.

Have fun everyone, and Jen I hope your flu get better quickly.

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The Dark Part 2

Bro crouched down ready to pounce on the baby silvereye before him.

“Please, don’t eat me!” The little bird squealed, “Why not?” Bro asked licking his lips.

“My Mummy will be upset; I am the only baby left!”

Bro thought of the juicy meal the mother would make.  This tiny bird would be a mouth of fluff! “Okay, where is your nest?”

“That tree by the fence.”

Bro gulped, “That old tree covered with ivy?” He shuddered, weird noises came from it.

“Man up!” he told himself, as he picked up the fledgling gently and started to make his way to to the old dark relic at the edge of the garden.

Next installment will be next Monday.

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