Wednesday, 31 October 2007

First posting (and about time too!)


The end of October already and I've not posted anything yet. Thought I'd better start making up for this lack. To start off here are eight different drawings of a tiny slice of ammonite fossil using different media:





Some sketches from Dorset:



These are based on chalk cliffs:

I started with this photo

This is an oil pastel drawing:Then I had a go at a (slightly) 3-dimensional version using pieces of card of different thicknesses, then covering them with tissue paper and painting with acrylic paint:
This was a rubbing of the version above which I made using oil pastels:









2 comments:

  1. I love your fossil images Karen - they will be great for interpreting in stitch.

    ReplyDelete
  2. I love your ammonite images Karen - they would make great stitched studies.

    ReplyDelete