I’ve been in strange mood recently (I blame it on crazy weather we’re having in Croatia right now) so I decided to snap myself out of the not-so-great mood by playing with ink a little bit. It definitely cheered me up and once again I was proven there is nothing more therapeutic than making art!
Blues.
Video by me, sound by Alkaline Samurai.
Three colorful explosions!
Delicious bowl of ink.
It moves.
Ink gems.
A card, messy floor, work in progress, mini canvases, drawings in watercolor and ink… all of the usual stuff coming out from my home “workshop”:
I’ve been very busy lately, spending a lot of time drawing and not having much time for anything else. As much as I love to draw I was forced to take a short break because my back hurts. So, while I’m trying to be kind to my aching back I thought I’d share three recent drawings with you, all dedicated to cats.
Matryoshka cats.
Portrait of a cat.
Girl wants a new pet. Kitten is not so sure about it.
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All drawings are done on A4 format paper with watercolors and ink.
Here is one of my latest work-progress-projects: making colorful textures using lino-cut technique. I made random cuts and scratches on a piece of lino using a sharp knife to get messy texture and them made many different prints using various ink colors. The size of watercolor paper prints were made on is 25×35 cm.
I plan on using those textures as backgrounds for drawings.
Latest doodle from my sketchbook, watercolor and ink.
*stuff I made over the weekend*
*big doodle*
Sometimes there is nothing more relaxing than drawing a big pattern! I felt like I needed to get rd of some stress this weekend so I doodled this big piece (it’s 30×40 cm) and it was very therapeutic.
*messy cards*
In art, I love seeing accurately drawn, clean (and usually uninterrupted ) lines and I’m always striving to better the quality of lines in my work and to draw them with confidence. But sometimes, I also feel like taking a break from accuracy and control and just want create messy stuff : ) So, a couple of days ago I took a bottle of ink and dipped a grill stick into it and started drawing and making messy lines on cards. Later I colored them with crayons and ended up with fourteen messy cards, different than my usual style.
*gift tags*
I also made some gift tags using mini prints of my illustrations and ended up turning one of them into a key chain.
I wish it would rain soda… but instead it’s raining, well, rain.
And, as you’ve probably guessed by my latest posts this is yet another page from my sketchbook.
I wish you all wonderful weekend!
This is another one of the paintings I did in collaboration with Arlen this Winter so I thought it would be a good time to finally post a picture of it. It’s acrylics and ink on wood panel. You can see the first one here.
Acrylics and ink painting done on a wooden panel.
This is the first of six paintings in the series, done in collaboration with Arlen Dean (Alkaline Samurai on flickr.)
From my sketchbook, done with color pencils and ink.
Last week I had an interesting dream dreamt early in the morning just before I woke up so I remembered it well. In my dream I saw an illustration of a round cartoon bear skiing. As soon as I woke up I grabbed a piece of paper and sketched the bear I saw in my dream. Later that day I drew my first “bubblegum” bear. You can see it on top photo on the left.