This is a fun (and useful!) class that I've bookmarked for return visits.  Here are some of the techniques that I used. 

==This lady came from an old textbook, and she's surrounded with journal-ish entries. I like the way the text turned out, and the paper textures too.

I collaged copies of William Blake images and added those intricate textured lines that I like so much. It uses Ph Martin ink, watercolor, and oil crayon. 

After the dark piece I was inspired to create a lighter piece. This is watercolor and posca pens.

This is the badly drawn boy. I don't know what's going on here. Kind looks like an entry for "The Regular Show" cartoon my kiddo used to watch.  (Trivia tip: Mark Hamill voices "Skips" the white gorilla.)

A lot of the pronts involved scratching and scraping; I saw a woman on Youtube who created wonky "pens" out of aluminum cans and decided to try it. (Careful you don't cut yourself if you try this.)

Here's what I made with the homemade pens. They are very primitive but hey: it's a new tool. Plus I used the inkstone and accidentally made my ink too pale. The first one is supposed to be the road going through canyonland in Colorado alongside the Arkansas River. (Take my word on this one.)

The second can-blade painting is a creepy orchard.

This bird was scratched out with a weird little resin spoon I found in a drawer. The legs and background come from my inkstone.

IThis is a Ph Martin background, acrylic blue spatters, gold marker, and white gelly pen. The flowers are scratched into the paint; I used several textures, including disguised journaling.

This is repetitive marks with my favorite Ph Martin color: Van Dyck brown.

Yay! More texture play! And I used the technique where you trace / follow a pebble with your pen.

I enjoyed the suspense of peeling the tape pieces here ;)

This mixed media rabbit is my favorite piece! I didn't have gesso but I did have white liquid acrylic paint for the background. Then I added the straw-blown ink and oil crayons for the rabbits. (Plus gold ink and white gel pen.)

And this is a sort of mish-mosh collage; I see the blue paint as delphiniums.  The S&H stamps came from an auction ... I have a whole box of them (!!!!!) so don't feel bad about my using them. 

 

This class has been very rewarding; again, I plan to return to these exercises in the future. Thanks Jerney :)