A Sick Looking Chick

A Chick(watercolor, black, non-permanent ballpoint pen, feathers, white ink, pencil)

I wanted to draw something for Easter. I chose a green ballpoint pen and when I added some watercolor I realized the pen was not permanent. The green color spread and it didn't look very nice. I tried to fix it with white ink, but it didn't help very much. The background was made earlier at the same time as the next page with a frog on it(The Frog Prince, posted 29.1.2015).

If I could start this page again from scratch, I wouldn't use a green pen because it makes the chick look a bit sick. Obviously I wouldn't use a non-permanent pen either. I would like to use happier and brighter colors. Maybe next Easter.

The Whole Spread(watercolor, black, non-permanent ballpoint pen, feathers, white ink, pencil)

Art Gallery

Art Gallery (collage)

This time I asked some help for my sketchbook page. I would like to thank Senni, Jukka, Siiri, Pietu, Miina, Titta, Anne, Mika and Raimo for helping me out with this art exhibition. I only made the frames and drew one of the portraits and the rest was made by this great art crew. Although they are all great, my personal favorite is the groovy red cat on the top row made by Senni, our youngest artist.

The Frog Prince

Waiting for a Kiss(collage, watercolor, pencil, feathers)

Here's my newest sketchbook page. I did the background few days ago when we were trying out collage technique with my students. Today I had a day off so there was a lot of time to finish this page. When I was looking up some ideas I saw this photo of a frog and wanted to practice coloring its different textures. It took me few hours to make this page but I think it was time well spent although the frog and the background don't quite fit together. Maybe a bird of some kind would have been a better match. Well, I'm still happy with this page.

I almost forgot to tell the name of the photographer. The original photo of the cute frog was taken by Sebastian Lassie.