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Sketchbook Cover - May

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My standard sketchbooks are bound in grey carton that is great for working on. This is the A5 portrait format I use when going out. I digitally mock up the head-with-hands, and sketch it in charcoal on architect's vellum  - you can see the sketch at the top. After priming the sketchbook's cover with white acrylic paint I use a brown watercolour pencil for sketching, and then dab in first strokes of the colours I want. I have cheap acrylics left I use instead of my artist's grade paints, so I won't be sorry when it eventually gets beaten up from travelling. I work on the glass pane of an old picture frame, which is easy to clean, and I can put my sketches under it, like here: I'm going for garish colours, so I use the paints straight from the tube, expertly titled "brown" or "orange". Wonder why I want to get rid of them? I cover the entire thing in a thin wash of orange and apply reds and yellows with palette knives. Every now and then

Splittermond Feenband

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Illustrations for the German RPG Splittermond by Uhrwerk Verlag, for their fairy sourcebook. http://www.uhrwerk-verlag.de/ --- Ilustrationen für den Feenband des Splittermond-Rollenspiels vom Uhrwerk Verlag. http://www.uhrwerk-verlag.de/

Doodle-di, doodle-da

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I just learned the term "zen tangle", which sounds like a scientific expression for "scribbling is fun", but anyway, I met this particular form of shapes as "linear expressionism" a few years ago and already made some felt pen drawings then (that I can't find anymore), and I find it indeed quite relaxing to do, regardless of term. Ink pens on photo paper sheets, 10×15cm.