Watercolor Sketchbook Play and Another Alpaca Attempt

This might turn into something! I see images coming forth!

Taking a break from sketching, used my water brush to spread different watercolors on my sketchbook page, which doesn't handle very much watercolor well, but I like the results. Looks better in reality, but this is the original. 

I began to see images in the original, but didn't want to commit just yet, so I made a copy and first drew in the images I saw, then later went over them with a Zig Writer marker/pen. The copier didn't scan the colors exactly right, and the brushstrokes are more visible in this one, which led to two female images.

Back on the original I saw the image on the left, then later the one on the right when the bottom circle looked like a sunset to me, so I drew them in pencil and left them for a while before...

going over the pencil lines with the Zig Writer pen. Not sure I really like either one, but they are what they are, and it was a learning experience experiment!

Back to sketching! I shared the ink alpaca sketch in a previous post, but since I had half a page left in my sketchbook, I decided to try another alpaca in pencil. He came from the same farmers' magazine, but where the first one was black, this one was whitish blonde. I may yet go over him with the Zig!

Just a squiggle girl from out of my head, which I played with watercolor on trying to practice color in shadow and light. I may have gone a bit too far...

Another sketchbook page with watercolors applied. I actually applied them in portrait format, but when they dried I liked it better in landscape format. It reminds me of the ocean lapping up against a rocky cliff.

And then I got the bright idea of drawing a line to emphasize the rock line. Mistake! Hate it, but can't erase it. The only thing I could do to hopefully fix it is to paint over the line with acrylics or something, which would involve basically adding paint to all of it, I think. Anyway, I'm leaving it for now as it is. I do love the colors, and I can always cut it up for collage.

We watch a lot of detective shows, and I told my husband it sort of looks like a body dump. Not intentional. It just turned out that way. Ha!

This page completed my 7" x 10" Canson Mixed Media sketchbook, so I painted another watercolor page in my Winsor Newton 7" x 10" mixed media sketchbook, but I haven't decided what I want to try on it yet. I'm thinking a mixed media piece. We'll see!

This has been kind of a stressful weekend. We expected company that didn't come, then our regular Sunday visitor didn't come today, but a cousin, her hubby, and two of her four dogs, who were camping out nearby, dropped by to see us for a while this evening. Good company!

I did get two blog posts done today, but I haven't done any art or stitching yet. Hubby about has hamburgers ready, so maybe after supper I will stitch and sketch something. It doesn't feel right not to since I've gotten so used to doing it every day. It's a good habit to have, plus it keeps my hands busy while we watch TV, which keeps me from wanting to snack before bed (good for my diabetes).

Take care! See ya next post! Thanks for visiting!