Patchwork Series 2

 

Thomas Becket Church, Ramsey, Cambridgeshire UK

 

The second in my Patchworx series, using a prepared surface to sketch and paint with on location.

 

St Mary's Church, Doddington, Cambridgeshire UK

 

Sketched and painted on location (from my car) using a surface of decorative papers and stencilling prepared at home.

Santa Susanna Prep

SS-Prep-1, a photo by Anita Davies on Flickr.

I have been playing with a few of the spreads in my Seawhite concertina sketchbook I am taking with me to Spain. I did this when I went to Rome and really enjoyed working on some the prepared pages. The decorative papers were my Mums that she purchased and used for card making so it's quite nice to have her with me on holiday in an artistic way aswell as in my heart. The stencils are segments of a few I have collected over time.
You can see some of the other spreads I have prepared here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anitadavies/sets/72157631635057204/

Bluebells and Boots

29-30-04-11
Originally uploaded by Anita Davies

Noodlers bullet proof black ink and watercolour in daily journal

View From The Sun Lounger

19-04-11
Originally uploaded by Anita Davies

Noodlers bullet proof black ink, decorative paper and watercolour in daily journal

Gorgeous Grey

13-04-11a
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Guess what I purchased with some of my Birthday money?......Hmmm, rather predictable aren't I!

Dads Garage

28-03-11
Originally uploaded by Anita Davies

Sketched while having a quick cigarette on his garden bench and painted a couple of days later during another cigarette break!
Noodlers bullet proof black ink and watercolour in daily journal

The Lamb Hotel, Ely, Cambridgeshire. UK

22-03-11a
Originally uploaded by Anita Davies

Noodlers bullet proof black ink, decorative paper and watercolour in daily journal

Scobey

13-02-11c
Originally uploaded by Anita Davies

Noodlers bullet proof black ink, decorative paper and watercolour in daily journal

Scobey all snuggled up infront of the TV with the leopard print fleece blanket I purchased for her for Christmas

Daffs

13-02-11b
Originally uploaded by Anita Davies

Noodlers bullet proof black ink, decorative paper and watercolour in daily journal.

Room With A View

05-02-11
Originally uploaded by Anita Davies

Earlier this week I had a big clean up in the studio, brought in one of the white wicker chairs from the Summer house and popped it infront of the big studio window...I love these chairs.
It's nice and light, so I can carry it around the house and position it anywhere which will enable me to sketch a from a few different angles around the home in comfort.
When I arrived back from visiting Dad in hospital, company had turned up, so I filled the rest of the page with decorative papers from the collection I inherited from my Mum rather than sketches.

Undies

03-02-11
Originally uploaded by Anita Davies

A day of cleaning and re-arranging ended with me colapsed on the sofa sketching the bra I'd hung over the arm of the sofa earlier to be put away in the bedroom.

Rescued

24-01-11b
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Noodlers bullet proof black ink, watercolour and decorative papers in daily journal

Blue?

20-01-11
Originally uploaded by Anita Davies

I used the cartridge that comes with a Lamy Safari fountain pen, it's supposed to be blue but my scanner appears to be colour blind!
Very quick sketch while passing through March town

Last Spread

06-11-2010c
Originally uploaded by Anita Davies

More DVD stills from the OC series and the last spread of my little A6 Venezia that I started on 30-09-10.

I'll be moving on to an A5 sketchbook by Daler Rowney next, my first time using one of these filled with 90+ pages of 150gsm cartridge paper:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anitadavies/5169094680/

Wings

20-10-2010
Originally uploaded by Anita Davies

I prepared this spread with some scrap papers in advance. Harry left his toy aeroplane out the other night so...I sketched it!

Weekend In Coltishall - Day One

15-10-10b
Originally uploaded by Anita Davies

This is a corner of Joans lounge in Coltishall, Norfolk.
I prepared the page with decorative paper before leaving home.

Off For The Weekend

14-10-2010
Originally uploaded by Anita Davies

I'm off for the weekend!
I'm visiting my good friend Joannie in the Norfolk Broads for a few days and we are heading into Norwich on Saturday for the 29th Worldwide SketchCrawl together. The Cathedral is the top of our list, I've never been before so I am looking forward to it.
Here are the bags I'll be taking
Left: My Italian trip sketch bag - I thought Saturday would be the perfect chance to try it out, make sure everything I need, I have etc.. Living in the Fens means I have heaps of space between sketching spots, not very many people to contend with and the ability to park up almost anywhere I wish. I guess you could say it's a sketchers dream. So practice in a city will be a perfect warm up for all those busy Italian spots we have on our tour next year.
Middle: My clothes and toiletries holdall...Yes, I plan to dress. While I agree naked sketching could be quite liberating, I think I would feel more than a little vulnerable doing it.
Right: Current sketchbooks to show Joannie, Italian DVD, Wine and other goodies. It's a handmade patchwork bag purchased for me at a country show. I wish I'd had time to colour it but gallery work and house chores have taken up my day today, so I had to be quick! I will sketch it again some day in all it's glory!
The decorative paper is just something I had floating around that I thought would enhance the spread.
'See' you when I return. Have a great weekend and, for those of you sketchcrawling on Saturday...Happy sketching...I hope the weather is good to you!

Arthouse Sketchbook Project

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This is what lies beneath the tabbed doors in my Arthouse Sketchbook Project centre pages.
Created with coloured card.

Arthouse Sketchbook Project

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Originally uploaded by Anita Davies

This is the centre spread for my Arthouse Sketchbook Project.
I wrote the words for my very first blog posting ever and thought they made a nice introduction to where I live, which is the next subject I'll be tackling in this little book.

The dark blue areas on the sides are those little tabs I folded over from the larger pages I made the book with, they lift and open up to reveal the collage I made underneath them. I thought adding the windows to provide a glimpse of the collage while reading would add interest.
I'll post the same spread with the 'doors' open soon as I have scanned it.

Collage is not something I tackle much, I kept it very simple, just something pretty to accent the words I wrote.