Sketchbook Project VI

I've not really done anything new today but instead have taken the wax resist idea a little further. In my box of oil pastels I found a couple of metallic crayons and tried some simplified seed head shapes.

I then brushed over these with some black ink which really makes the shapes glow and stand out from the page.

I then started to think about how I could simplify them further and draw them without lifting my pen off the page (with a view to stitching them) and came up with a couple of doodles worked on scrap paper.

I then did the same shapes, again in the metallic oil pastels, this time in my sketchbook.

And another sweep of black and blue ink.

And the scrappy little doodles... they got stuck in the sketchbook too. I think the point I'm making here is that wherever ideas occur to you... jot them down, both sketches and written notes, on whatever scraps of paper you have to hand, because they can always be added to your sketchbook later, either glued in , stapled in or tied in.

I can see this taken further with metallic threads on a dark background, so to remind me I did a quick stitched "sketch" to tie into my book.

Now it's time to work a proper stitched sample!

I'm still enjoying seeing how bloggers have taken up this sketchbook challenge. Take a look at what Miriam has done here and here. And what Penny has done here and here.

Do let me know if you are joining in so that I can link back to you!