Creating Texture on Painted Pages

Creating Texture on Painted Pages

The raised texture on sketchbook page using gesso and gloss medium With limited supplies, it is possible to get inventive. I like contrasts between watery inky layers and raised texture – all building a rich surface across each page. I found the perfect...
Book as Sculpture

Book as Sculpture

Page edges create images of their own I have created a few accordion books in the past – mostly handmade from scratch. Small and imperfect with simple imagery flowing across the folded pages. One thing I love about these current woodland books (both from...
Painted Pages and Fine Details

Painted Pages and Fine Details

Gestural brushstrokes in ink and fluid acrylic As shown in a previous post, I start the layers in these pages with big gestural brush marks. Creating shapes and movements which build layer by layer. When working on cradled board in my studio, in recent years my...
Gathering Inspiration

Gathering Inspiration

Twisted tree trunks and branches – pencil on paper It is impossible to capture every detail of a landscape in a sketch. Whether drawing from harbour walls, a panoramic landscape or seascape, or in this case the woodland interior, I can only respond to a fraction...
Woodland Accordion Book

Woodland Accordion Book

In late winter and maybe two months into our longest lockdown, I finished my first Woodland Accordion Book. I don’t finish sketchbooks very often, mainly because I have so many on the go at once. I go from one to the other depending on the subject, materials and scale...
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