I’m rather taken with some of the tribal symbols, motifs and drawings that I’ve found on Pinterest. I like their primitive vibe. So I did a few of them this evening. Some elements are just copies but I adapted and messed around with others …
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They’re on used teabags, painted with gouache, which has the right sort of matt quality to make them quite effective. They’re fun to do too.
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Here’s that preacher on a pebble, with a few more embellishments …
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I varnished the pebble later but the contrast was lost so it’s hard to make out the detail.
Then I did this from Rice’s Architectural Primer, keeping up my sequence of one a day from that book.
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It’s a bit messy but I don’t mind that. I layered the watercolour from light to dark. You can see the layers on on the right hand side. I then used a fine liner to emphasise the detail. I’m quite pleased with the texture of the stone. I felt this was going to be a hard one, and it was. In the past I would have approached this with some trepidation which tends to make one’s lines quite tentative. This evening, however, I felt reasonably confident that I could have a good go at this, and so I just went for it.
Received this today and I’m going to have a go at it …
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… later in the summer. My sewing experience to date comprises sewing buttons on shirts, sewing up a sweater that I machine knitted years ago, narrowing a pair of chefs trousers for college wear and making some net curtains. Still, nothing ventured …
I did a few other bits and pieces this evening but, as yet, they are works in progress.