Saturday 29 June 2013

What do you do...



When orange ink blobs bleed through from the page in a journal you were working on to the other side of the page?

Why, you sketch Koi carp of course!


 
These are my pages for Maggie's orange, yellow and grey (with a splash of something else if you feel like it) journal. As the months roll by each time the postman brings me my next delivery the excitement bubbles up in a fizz of anticipation. What treasures will be unveiled this month? How will my fellow artists have immersed themselves in the colour fest of each journal. Are they as paint-splattered as me?



There is one more page, but I'm leaving that to Maggie to discover (plus... it scanned really badly and I only noticed after I'd put it in the post!!).

Sharing my orange, yellow and grey with Sunday Sketches.

18 comments:

  1. Good save. This is wonderful. Love the koi and the gorgeous flowers. Wow! These books just keep getting more and more awesome.

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  2. What a cool way to save the bleeded page! Your koi fish are really beautifully drawn.

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  3. The koi are really great! love the save!!

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  4. A happy accident I'd call it...love your paintings.

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  5. Lisa, these pages are indescribably beautiful! The koi are so graceful and the orange ink blobs look perfectly at home there...I would never have known they were a bleed-thru! The flowers are cheerful and brilliant, and it all reminds me that I LOVE orange!! Yellow too, I love those feathers. Eeee, now I can't wait to see the elusive page...let me see, counting the months til it is back at my door...four? I can't believe our magical journey is half over.

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  6. Fabulous pages! Love the koi! How fun and creative! No one would ever know they were a happy accident.
    I just rec'd the journal today. Yay! I cannot wait to take a peek.
    =}

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  7. your art is getting better and better. I LOVE your koi carp. wish I were seeing you in Glasto.

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  8. What a lovely journal challenge and how ingenious to incorporate the orange bleed thtough into your lovely koi carp illustration-I'd have never known it wasn't planned unless you said!

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  9. I LOVE that koi fish piece! Your line drawings are flawless, and the ink blobs added the perfect atmospheric feel. Blessings!

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  10. Oh these are both really striking pieces! However I love the Koi!! And what is an accident but something that is meant to be :P

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  11. I love these! great idea with the paint blobs!

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  12. Oh my I do love the Koi, thanks for the inspiration I have the exact problem in one of my journals.

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  13. They say that some of the best art comes from mistakes - your use of those unplanned splodges is ingenious and very lovely! The combination of flowers and feathers is gorgeous too. And yes, I for one am definitely as paint-splattered as you are! x

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  14. Gorgeous bright pops of color and line work!

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  15. Incredible! What a blessing that paint bleeding was...the way you drew those magical koi and left them unpainted...brilliant!!! Almost an abstract piece, just gorgeous, Lisa!
    ♥♥

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  16. These are brilliant! Paint blobs put to perfect use! I love your colourful art :)

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  17. Oh yes I am frequently plaint splattered too, lol :-) Your painting with its under pattern (stenciling or stamping??)& its gorgeous orangey yellow floral beauty is gorgeous. And I love the inked fish over the bubbly background. Maggie is sure to love these pages and the ones we haven't got to see.
    Hugs
    Kat Xx

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