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| Sketch Book Project |
As usual despite all good intentions I left it till the last minute and it was a mad scramble to get it done on time - never underestimate how long it takes to fill a page. Thank goodness for matte medium photo transfers - a relatively quick way of creating a background for text. All papers are not equal - the paper in this book was less equal than some! It's fine for drawing on with pencil and drawing pen, but doesn't like wet media at all. I took it apart and replaced some of the pages with 140gsm cartridge paper and thick tracing paper - with hindsight I should have done them all, and included watercolour paper too, but I was wary of making it too bulky. Inevitably, with mixed pages, I ended up wanting to put wet media on the drawing paper - which went straight through. This is why the pebbles have a green background!
Here are a few close-ups - the rest are in the album above. Had trouble photographing these as the book wouldn't lie flat. Of course, I should have scanned it, but I didn't think of that in my rush to meet the deadline. More haste, less speed . . .
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| Ammonites at Lyme Regis - Brusho and pen on tracing paper |
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| Seascape - acrylic applied with credit card on cartridge |
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| Gulls on a telegraph wire at Dungeness |
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| Old groynes at West Wittering - brusho and pen on cartridge and tracing paper |
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| Mackerel - pencil and brusho on drawing paper (the one that bled trough!) |
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| Boat at Clovelly - pencil on cartridge |
