HES Week 10: Images on Words
Acrylic and pencil on paper
Week 11 of Hello Every Sunday, you can see it all at helloeverysunday.tumblr.com.
HES, Week 9: Decorating Pottery Pieces
Black underglaze on clay #910 (semi-porcelain) and #542 (light grey)
Eight pieces done, 20 more or so to do!
These are for this week’s Hello Every Sunday. You can see the first eight weeks on the project’s blog at helloeverysunday.tumblr.com.
I’m back to black, since that’s the only underglaze in my studio for the moment. You may recognize the big mushroom in the plate from a previous drawing. This time, I tried a variation with the negative space.
Hello Every Sunday: Week 8: Almost Monochromatic
Acrylic and pencil on paper
Two of this week’s drawings for Hello Every Sunday.
More at https://helloeverysunday.tumblr.com
The montage above shows some of the steps in making these illustrations.
Hello Every Sunday, Week 7: Plants & Animals
Acrylic, pencil and micron on paper
Details of some of this week’s drawings for Hello Every Sunday.
More at https://helloeverysunday.tumblr.com
Hello Every Sunday: Weeks Five and Six
Pencil on paper
Week 5: Pods and Seeds, Take 2
More at Hello Every Sunday
Pencil and acrylic on paper
Week 6: Mish-Mash, but going somewhere
More at Hello Every Sunday
22 Ready to Go
I just spent three hours sanding these 22 pieces until they felt like baby skin. ;-)
It makes it so much easier to paint on the surface once they’re bisqued.
They’re now ready to leave for their first firing.
Hello Every Sunday, week four!
Pencil on paper
My! Four weeks already into this challenge; only 48 to go! This week’s theme: Pods and seeds. You can follow us at https://helloeverysunday.tumblr.com/.
I’m still struggling to find the right sketchbook. I need something that could hold 365 days of drawings, that can handle wet medium from time to time and that stays easily opened. Does that even exist? I would settle for 100 pages since I often combine three or more drawings on the same page. If you are aware of such a product, please tell me where to find it!
The fishing trip
Watercolor and felt pen on paper
A birthday card I made for a friend who’s passionate about fishing (among other things).
Hello Every Sunday, week one and two
Taking the time to draw every day, for 365 days: that’s what Priya challenged me to, a few days before the New Year. I’m so crazy; I said yes.
So, every Sunday, we each upload a montage for the past week. One for Priya (Bengalore), one for me (Montreal).
You can follow us on Tumblr at https://helloeverysunday.tumblr.com/, and here is a foretaste:
Week one: Mushroom experiments
Silver pen and pastel on ink
Week two: Exploring new color palettes
Watercolor, acrylic, pen, pencil
Happy 2017!
My best wishes to you for 2017; happy drawings, paintings, collages, pottery and what not!
I’ve started working TODAY on a brand new project, besides my current obsession (pottery): a drawing a day for the next 365 days in parallel to Priya from the Plum Tree. I’ll share the details in a next post. Until then, here are some pieces, in production or finished, that I’ve been working on during the past weeks.
Fur on wood and white glaze on clay
This small coffee cup is slightly crooked, but I love its texture and roundness. It feels a bit sandy under the fingers and it fits perfectly in my hands. Note the furry ballerina paws in the background. They are a perfect backdrop to any pictures.
A first attempt with marbled clay (#542 and #519), slowly drying
Marbled clay, polished with a metal spoon
Completed pieces from this Fall/Winter
Mushroom: black underglaze and clear glaze on clay #519, black slip and clear glaze on speckled clay, grapevine glaze on clay #519
The only drawing that came out as I hoped was this mushroom painted on a small disk. The combination was perfect: right amount of underglaze and transparent glaze on top. I applied a thin layer of the latter with a sponge and it seems that this is what works best. It didn’t make the drawing fuzzy like the other ones.
My January gift: a wallpaper of a very snowy forest in Sutton, where we used to live. You can download it by right-clicking on the picture. Choose “Save image as”.
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