Sketchbook : Post 1.

My crafting mojo seems to have run away so when I saw the Sketchbook Challenge created by Gina over at Fan My Flame, I fancied giving it a whirl.  

I will warn you now this is a photo heavy post.

Thank goodness Twiggy, less chat, more pics !!

Firstly, I had to rummage in the garage for my paints and brushes, I haven't touched them since before Twiglet was born - 6 years ago !!!!

 I decided that my colour theme would be blue, I love all shades of blue, particularly, aqua, teal and turquoise.  

I think this is down to my BIG love for the sea and water.

So we started on Friday afternoon.

Anyhoo, here's my page all covered in cling film and left to dry.

 Twiglet decided he wanted to join in too, so here is Twiglet's page.

 I think this image is lovely, so had to take a pic !!

 This is the background on my first page.

It took me ages to decide what image I wanted to use. 

I had a look around my garden and I loved the idea of cow parsley, I love it's outline, like little fireworks, but it proved too fiddly to cut out.

I decided on Ox Eye Daises instead, we have a lot of these and they are so pretty. 

I don't have any oil pastels, so turned the house upside down looking for wax crayons, we have loads but not white unfortunately, so I used some of Twiglet's Thomas the Tank Engine ones in purple, pale blue and dark blue to outline my daisy.

I then painted it in a  mix of cerulean blue acrylic and ultramarine watercolour.

I also found an image of a teasel (another favourite) increased the size on my laptop and used this as a template too.

 However, after we returned from the Emley Show today I had another look and thought I want to use a more aqua shade of blue, so did another two pages, with the watercolour and cling film technique.

I used my daisy image again, once the background was dry I got to work.  

After painting the flower in a darker shade, I used one of my black ink pens and did a bit of colouring in and line drawing.

I was on a roll by now, so had another rummage and found my letter stamps and did a bit of stamping using a black ink pad.

 On the other page, I left my background quite light and again painted the daisy quite lightly and this time used my silver ink pad too !!

 I decided to leave my top daisy as it is and just show the outline as I think it looks quite pretty.

 Here's the full page.

I'm really enjoying this and can't wait to get back to it after the weekend.

If you want to join in and check on everyone's progress, pop on over to Gina's lovely blog.

Twiggy x