I finished a new journal last week - here are a few of my more successful pages.
It's funny though, many of them are not my "best" drawing or the "best" use of technique, but pages that I made in unique circumstances or that were inspired by something particularly meaningful.
It's funny though, many of them are not my "best" drawing or the "best" use of technique, but pages that I made in unique circumstances or that were inspired by something particularly meaningful.
Paper that I marbled my very own self in my kitchen |
Christmas Eve 2014. I'd been drawing all break and just generally enjoying the beautiful Muscat weather. After some last minute Christmas shopping we saw a tiny sliver of a moon hanging above some buildings. The horizon was just starting to turn orange and I made Max wait in the car for a few minutes while I sketched an outline to watercolor later.
Our sweet housekeeper's mother passed away last week and she left me a perfectly simple and expressive note. "I am so sad" it read.
Regardless of nationality or language, loss is something that translates.
The text behind the Sri Lankan woman is Sinhala, one of the national languages of Sri Lanka.