Sketchbook Revival 2025-Portrait Sketches and Blob Characters

 I am learning so much in these classes! Every time I think I'll take a break, another student posts something that inspires me to take another class, but I am beginning to want to do my own art instead of following along with the teachers, as wonderful as they are. I am so grateful for their generosity in sharing their techniques with the rest of us!

This one came out of the class "Expressive Portrait Play" with Melanie Rivers, involved two colors plus white applied with my fingers. Quite challenging, but fun!

This page was inspired by Carla Sonheim's class Box Journaling and Blob Painting. I do want to do a box journal, and I should have used watercolor for the blobs instead of left over acrylics. I found characters in them, but my pen didn't want to go over the slick finish. I'll do some more in watercolor! A fun little exercise!

These two were inspired by Ida Anderson Lang's class "Graphite and Gold". I had paint drying in my class sketchbook, so I sketched the one above in my bigger better sketchbook. I wasn't quite satisfied with her, so I sketched her again in my class sketchbook and made her bigger. Still not satisfied with her, but I like her better, although I wish the darks and gold paint showed up better in the bottom one.

I'm thinking I might not ought to be sharing my notes at the bottom of the pages now. I really didn't think most people would take the time to read them, or they wouldn't be able to make sense out of them, and even if they do they'd still need to see the video demo to put it together. My notes are wonky, and are usually nowhere near this neat. I know what they mean, but most other people wouldn't. I didn't want to crop them off the picture for my own purposes, but maybe I should from now on?

Anyway, that's my classwork for this week, all of them challenging in their own way, which I love!

Stay safe and well and keep creating pretty things! The world needs pretty things!