goofing off

I'm currently drawing pictures of aliens with my dip pen because I can.  I painted watercolor over regular gesso and if you go back to fix any spots that don't have any color you get interesting layered results. Interesting as in your mistakes are really obvious.  So I went back in with my pen and drew the pictures I saw emerging from the page.  I took a class with the lovely Carla Sonheim a few years ago and she has a bunch of great techniques where you draw what you see in pen or paint splotches.

Bunny love

I love layering tracing paper over fabric. I'm still working out the details for creating the translucent aspects but I like the mix so you can see the layers but it may be fun to see it to fully blended. Clear gesso works on fabric but it produces cloudy effects on darker fabric so gloss medium works best for this.

sending this off to my mother in the morning for our book exchange