Well, how about this for an excuse to sit and daydream, er I mean practise? I'm doing the
bigpicturescrapbooking Doodle All Day class with
Maelynn Cheung and loving it. A great book with lots of really clear photos and examples, and daily emails with assignments that are totally achievable (even if it is a bit scary putting pen to paper...) So far I've managed to just doodle! (above) and practise the lines and circles exercises (below).
We also had to search through and test out all our pens on white and black card. These are mostly Sakura souffle (pastel), tombow, jimnie gel rollers (metallic ones) and marvy le plume.
And on the white below are a set of Sakura micron pigment pens 01-05, and on the black, the souffle again, a couple of sakura gelly rolls, the jimnie metallic gell rollers again, white sharpie paint ones, and a krylon gold leafing pen.
This was the first scary thing - to go back to an old layout that needed 'something' and add doodles! So here it is....
More shapes and assignments for the doodling class at BPS - above was to use lines to frame rectangles (practising for photos I guess), and on the rhs, you had to trace round a chipboard shape then doodle round it! The colourful one I did a day or so ago, trying out more ideas from the cover of Maelynn's book, and playing with my pens and pencils.
For this assignment you had to get an older lo that could do with being framed. So I chose this one and used my Uniball Signo white pen, but kinda smudged the corner with the lovely wee white flower that was already on the Rouge de Garance paper so had to go and cover it up with this rather heavy handed splurgey thing. But hey, you live and learn!
Oooh, this is addictive.... the next assignment was to look at the cover of Maelynn's book, so I tried to copy bits in my doodle journal, and in so doing learnt so much about the characteristics of the different pens, and remembered that I had a fab set of colour pencils I could use! This is such fun!
