playing in my sketchbook

I hadn't put too much in my sketchbook for a long while until the girls and flowers i showed recently.....

then i started doing these....

I put down random blobs of watercolor, 

let it dry and drew around what i could see, 

not a new idea or anything,

 i've seen lots of books or blogs where people do this, 

but i hadn't in awhile, and it's sort of addicting and fun. 

Plus i end up seeing and drawing things i never would have drawn that way without trying this,

...like this little fox.

 He showed up in green, sort of fox-like but not really.

 so then i tried him again on a paint chip named marigold. 

So now I have this character, Marigold, the fox. I like him...

Happy paint party friday and hello all at Artists Play room! and hello to the creative everyday people!

There have been no signs of spring in my yard yet so I planted some seeds to see a bit of green .... 

mint

parsley

basil

 Pretty spindly..... but they are growing, my son hasn't dumped them or my cat chewed them, so all is well in their world for now.

I wanted to paint something at work the other day,

and i had no plan in mind, 

i hadn't sketched anything, 

I didn't feel like drawing anything out .... 

i just wanted to see paint flow...

 and quickly. 

Used to be a falling lady would appear or a mandala... 

i thought about a mandala and just letting it be wobbly without having drawn any circles or pans out....

 but what appeared was this...

You can see I didn't use any pencil, just dove right in... 

so then I just kept adding animals around her....

Then it seemed like she had a story to tell...

so i did another painting the same way....

And I taped it up above my ugly work area to ponder, and see if her story comes to me....

 Crows keep appearing

Murders of crows still coming

tales to tell I think

 

Happy Paint party friday, and hello all at haiku my heart!