Jill’s additions in my book.
My response…
…and on the following spread.
And Jill’s reply.
And in Jill‘s book:
Jill’s work.
My reply…
…continued onto a new spread.
And Jill responded with a dreamy goddess in the sky…
…with a hand pointing to what I see as castle towers!
And so our conversations continue… even if my blogging seems to be at a standstill!!!
Just that for various reasons my creative activities have slowed recently. Plus I just haven’t felt up to blogging. Anyway, here is the latest exchange on the visual dialogue in my altered book.
Jill's response...
...and her next spread.
My response...
...and the next spread.
Due to the binding becoming strained by the growing thickness of the book, I had to remove a couple of pages and make some repairs before returning the book to Jill. So there are fewer pages to play in. Which is a shame as I’ve really been enjoying our dialogue. The good news is that there is still plenty of room in Jill’s book for us to play for quite a while yet. In fact I have just about finished my next spread in her book. But more on that another day!
…in Jill’s book.
Jill painted the background and a face...
...and I added a body, plus hair and a hat...
...and continued it over the page.
Intrigued as to where Jill will go next!!! I’m really enjoying our ‘chats’, always fun to open the books when they arrive and see how the ‘conversation’ has developed 
And my ‘chat’ with Jill continues… in my book, this time.
The little man found a strange diving board...
...and has dived into the sea...
Zentangled hand
I’ve recently completed two very different swaps in Swap-Bot.
The first entailed drawing around my hand before filling it with zentangles. I used a textured paper from an acrylic pad as the paper needed to be thick enough not to get bent in the post and this was the thickest white paper that I had available. It made some of the drawing more difficult but I love the effect on the shadowing around the hand itself. Fun to do – I’m doing a lot of zentangles and doodles lately, this was a nice challenge.
For the second swap, I had to draw a fantasy map with certain elements included: at least 3 geographical features, a compass, names of cities and/or town, and a name for the land itself. I chose to draw Neriadeem, an island nation in my land of Rohinval. It’s one of the few areas of ‘my world’ that I know a fair bit about and so it seemed obvious to me to use that. I was pleased with the result – I used pen, inktense pencils and some acrylic inks. Again, fun to do, and useful – I’ll be using this map (or the scan I have) in the new map that I’m currently making (see my Rohinval blog for more info).
Neriadeem, an island nation in Rohinval.
S and T zentangled ATCs
My Sketchbook 2012 for the Art House Co-op has now been digitized!!! See here.
Also, a couple of Alphabet Zentangled ATCs for the SwapBot series. I’ve so been enjoying doing these.
I’ve also worked in and sent back my Visual Dialogue book, see below for pics. I have Jill‘s book here, too, but need to take a photo so will publish that later in the week. Am so enjoying our renewed ‘play’ in the Visual Dialogue books, it’s such fun when the books arrive in the post to open up the parcel and see what Jill has done
My additions to Jill's changes...
... and additions to her spread...
... plus the start of a new spread.
… of a cloth…. my first such project. Stitching by hand.
The brainstorming and notes leading up to the cloth.
the base... roughly 23" by 16"
Piecing and pinning...
mostly tacked, some stitched, 'stone' pinned...
Stone removed and painted...
And here are the latest pages in my visual dialogue with my friend Jill (see the visual dialogue 1 page to view all the work in my book so far).
Jill's last spread...
...with my additions.
and the latest partial spread that I've posted to Jill for her to continue
Week 15 "stickies"
Heart journal prompt was ‘stickies’, any type including (I think) collage as well as embellishments. My spread used bought papers plus crumpled dress pattern tissue painted with acrylic inks. Then various bought sticky embellishments. Not my best spread but my thoughts have been on writing this last week, not visual imagery!
Why? Because I signed up for NaNoWriMo and have thus been writing since Tuesday! More about that here on my Rohinval blog.
I’ve also made two more zentangled ATCs, although I need to scan them in so will show them later. But if you wonder why this blog is quieter than normal during November, you now know why!!!
Week 14
This week’s prompt for the Heart Journal was for two main colours or tonal. I sort of ignored the tonal and went for yellow and black, lol. Well, I decided I needed cheering and yellow is a cheery colour, plus I felt like doodling. So black pens on yellow acrylic ink it is!!!
I’ve also been ‘doodling’ in the Art House Co-op Sketchbook. Two of the following pages (the bed + chest; and the mug) are drawings from the original layout. They are the last to be carried forward into the new-look book – everything from here on is completely new. An assorted collection of drawings and another Holga photo. And I’m still having fun!!!
A photo and a drawing.
My 'happy' mug and a drawing inspired by Aubrey Beardsley.
Two urbanscapes - one real, the other complete fantasy.
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