Summer Colours Journal Page

Still flicking through my magazine for inspiration here

I came across another advert that appealed to me, this one features all these gorgeous summery colours and shapes which you can see below:

I decided to use this as my inspiration and doodled some of the shapes freehand using my pencil in my journal pages to make a big 2 page spread.

All colouring was added using Caran D’ache Neo-Colour Water Colour Crayons; Ive fallen in love with using them again after they ruined so many of my pens in the past. I discovered that you can use the Derwent Inktense ‘Outliner’ pencil with them which you get in the set of 24 colours to outline with and you don’t need to ruin your pens!

The flowers where hilighted using a White Souffle Pen by Sakura to add further interest.

I added a lot more blue and green to my page because I love those colours so much and I wanted mine to be different to the advert and not a complete carbon copy.

These colours really make me think about Summer; how about you? What are your favourite summery colours to use?

The Place Where Love Lives Lettering Page

Here is a completed lettering art page I finished off recently, there is something about this art form that calms me, I love doodling and playing around with my pro-marker pens to make lettering art pages:

She-Devil Art

A lot of creative folks out there are addicted to doing ‘She Art’ made popular by the multitalented Christy
Tomlinson, she makes the most amazing doll art using patterned papers and awesome background techniques which are really to squee for.

While I love the whole look and concept of this type of art, I really wanted to add my own personal twist to the ‘technique’; if you can call it a technique?

This is where I came up with the idea of ‘She-Devil Art’…she is the darker sexier version of the pretty She-Art and really no…REALLY much more MEEEEEEE!

I started off with a basic doll template I found online and used that as the base for my She Devil shape, once I had the doll shape down I started doodling on the template and before I knew it a She-Devil magicked before my very eyes!

Here is an initial painted sketch of  the first She Devil I designed, she kinda came to life right before my eyes:

Note the whip, kinky boots, mask and basque; I was really tempted to put gold brads on there for pointy Madonna style boobs but could’ve find any small enough brads I liked

I think Red is SOOO her colouring too don’t ya fink?

Below are a couple of completed ‘She-Devil’ Art Doll Journal Pages I completed, as you can see from the picture below I decided to replace her whip with a pitchfork:

I had so much fun creating the She-Devil and cant wait to do some more!! <grins>

Pea In A Pod ATC

Here is another atc I made, this time I decided to make the bee face into a pea….Im not done playing with this stamp yet

Beelogical Artist Trading Cards

Ive had this rubber stamp of a cheeky little face for some time and never gotten around to using it, funnily enough I think her face reminds me of a little bumble bee so I decided to make some ‘beelogical’ themed artist trading cards featuring it. I stamped the face onto business card sized card stock and then doodled on some doodling to the face to give her a body – of sorts, and then added a splash of colour.

Heres what I came up with (click on the thumbnails to see better):

Sketchbook Pattern Pages

The following are a bunch of doodles and patterns I did in my square paper sketchbook, my internet was down for almost 2 weeks and I did a lot of doodling and background art to help keep my mind active and stop me going half crazy.

You can click on the small thumbnails to view the pictures in full size: