The two prompts this week were “emerge” and “what lies beneath”. I decided to incorporate both in my page, plus try out some new pens my husband gave me: Sakura Glaze. Very pretty, but the scan doesn’t do the shine justice.
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Journal52 – Week 9
Posted by melydia on March 29, 2016
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Journal52 – Week 8
Posted by melydia on March 28, 2016
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Journal52 – Week 6
Posted by melydia on February 22, 2016
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This week’s Journal52 theme was “Above My Head” so I drew the contents of one of the “plant shelves” in my house – little nooks near the ceiling in all the upstairs rooms. This one is in my study. I removed the captions from the scan, but the objects are, in order:
- A lantern my husband got from his sister
- A stein I bought my husband when I was in Belgium. I didn’t draw it here, but the top of the lever to open it is shaped in the form of Manneken Pis.
- A glass mug belonging to my husband. The silver emblem has his initials engraved on it, but I don’t know where it came from.
- A vase I procured in Muncie, Indiana, during college. I couldn’t quite capture the pearlescence in marker but it is beautiful.
- A mule deer skull found in Flagstaff, Arizona.
My walls aren’t actually that purple – they’re a far more muted purply-gray – but I love that marker color so much that it ran out of ink. Alas.
Materials: Staedtler triplus fineliner, Prismacolor markers.
Goddess of the Night
Posted by melydia on February 16, 2016
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One of the cool things about Journal52 is that there are often little bonuses with the weekly prompts. Week 4 included a mini class (more like a paint-along) which was originally part of Effy‘s online class Moonshine 2014.
This is one of those pieces that I could spend a long time explaining what went wrong but honestly, I spent a random Wednesday evening making this instead of watching TV or reading Facebook, so I’ll call it a win. Really, any filled sketchbook page is an achievement, no matter how it turns out.
The idea here is that this is a stylized self-portrait as goddess of the night. It was an interesting exercise in (1) drawing using someone else’s techniques and (2) trying out all kinds of new materials together. For example, this was my first attempt at acrylics and wow did I ever make a mess (and that was before I knocked over my water glass). I also discovered that I really like opaque inks, like the gel pens, metallic markers, and white pigment marker.
All in all, I think I like her. It feels good to do something different from time to time.
Materials: Artist’s Loft acrylic paints, Windsor & Newton pigment markers, Prismacolor markers, Copic markers, assorted gel pens, pencil, American Crafts metallic markers, Stabilo point 88 pen.
Journal52 – Week 3
Posted by melydia on February 15, 2016
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Though I first subscribed to the weekly prompts from Journal52 back at the beginning of 2014, this year I’ve actually started doing them.
You may have noticed this is week 3. That’s intentional. I’m only sharing the ones I’m particularly pleased with.
Anyway, this year there are two prompts each week, always related in some fashion, and week 3 was either your favorite David Bowie lyric (since he’d just passed away), or favorite song lyric in general. I don’t really have any favorite lyrics, Bowie or otherwise, but I’ve always liked the concept of serious moonlight, so this is what I came up with:
Portraiture is not my strong suit, and drawing in pen can feel a bit daring since you can’t erase any stray marks, but I enjoyed doing this one.
Materials: Staedtler triplus fineliner, Prismacolor markers.