Playing With My Imagination

 It's been a few days, but I've been tied up with almost two weeks of free Sketchbook Revival 2026 classes, tax and prescription puzzles, and a bad storm at the beginning of the week, besides the usual stuff and unexpected trips out of town, so it's been busy on Rabbit Hop. I have the pictures uploaded on a couple more posts. Hopefully, I'll get those posted by the weekend...

The few days before Sketchbook Revival 2026 started I was playing in my sketchbooks with my imagination, ink, and paint, just having fun! The two ink ones are in my 11"x14" Canson mixed media book, and the other two are in my 7"x10" Winsor Newton MM book, which has thicker paper than the Canson.

This one was kind of inspired by a Helen Wells sketchbook class that I took, but I just started doodling with my large black and white Posca paint markers, then added some fine curlicues with a Micron pen. The black is actually much darker and richer than it showed up in the photo.

This one started off as an abstract landscape attempt of our fields, from memory, but I couldn't leave it alone. I kept playing with my watercolors until this is where I left it. I kind of like it...

I played with gouache and my Zig marker pen and a ruler over my wonky lines on this one, then added some travel stickers and collage. Not sure I'm through with it...

I can't find my India ink right now, so I played with an old bottle of Sumi ink and a brush on some mark making on this page. I added a sample of asemic writing vertically to mimic asian writing and some dots and white posca paint pen. I collaged on a paper where I had cleaned my watercolor brushes off and added some corner pieces that I had cut off some scrapbooking paper.

It's amazing what can show up during a doodling session, sometimes good, sometimes not, but it's all good fun! Try it! Nobody else has to see it, and it's good for your soul!