Handmade Monday

I'm lucky enough to live in an area that is not too far from many lovely buildings, many of them are Tudor, I love the black and white Tudor houses and one such house is home to a lovely little museum. The Ancient House Museum is a late 15th Century timber framed building, that now houses lots of interesting exhibits. Its higgledy piggledy with lots of crooked beams and sloping floors.

 

Ancient House Museum Sketches

I have done a couple of sketches of the house, a few tweeks and it will be finished, then I need to decide whether to keep it all black and white or should I add a bit of colour, what do you think? I'd love your views.

Ancient House, Thetford

I've linked this post to Handmade Harbour's Linky Party so grab a cuppa, follow the link and have a nosey.

Jan x

Seed Head Sketches

 Seed Heads

Hello everybody, I hope you've all had a good week.

 Following on from my previous post and the photo's of the seed heads I decided to do a bit of sketching. 

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My sketch books are never far from reach and having a nosey through them I found some old seed head sketches so I added some new ones.

One of these looks like exploding clouds or popcorn or even sheep on sticks.

Pencil thumbnails of seed heads

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 These dandelion heads are sketched using pencil, watercolour paints and chalk.

 

Dandelion seed heads

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These next sketches have been done using pencil, watercolour paint and oil pastels.
I also collect seeds and other items when I'm out and about then tape them into the sketchbook.

Sycamore and other seeds

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These preliminary sketches will eventually form the basis of some paintings I'm planning, I'd like to do some bright, colourful abstract paintings for my summer exhibition so I'll keep you posted, meanwhile I'm off to check out more blogs over at the Handmade Harbour Link up

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Jan x