Category: Ink & Collage

This ink and collage drawing is a hung bunch of flowers from my garden. It’s a subject that still appeals to me, there’s a concept I’ve been allowing to develop over time and it’s always reflected in botanical subject like flowers, stems, leaves etc. The fragility of life’s process, how we age and change, how…

This week I drew a flower that I saw growing over a broken fence, tangled in amongst nasturtiums and overgrown hedges. There were so many blooms or whatever they are called for Wisteria. I really need to learn a bit more about the tree. Or is it a plant? Wow, I don’t even know that!…

This piece was made when I noticed the turning of the seasons. That first proper glimpse of the colder wet months. This tree has yellow blooms but I really couldn’t budge past pink hues again. The native birds love it, the bugs love it, we love it. Not sure what it’s called unfortunately… our garden…

It’s been an exciting month, with the second book in the Amassia Series (by A.K. Wilder) coming out. The second book is titled Curse of Shadows. Exciting because I had the great opportunity to draw four additional chapter headers for this book to go with the original ones. Also because I am a huge fan…

It’s not often I draw or paint with pink, but I’m trying to not be so scared of soft colours that aren’t green, brown or grey. Pinks and purples are sometimes tricky to work with for me. I guess I gravitate more to the earthy gloomier colours. Haha! Anyway, here is Camellia. It grows in…

I started this drawing in September and seriously misjudged how long it would take to finish. I didn’t factor in holidays or that I’d forget to pack my collage gear. Oops! As a nice piece of fate, where we stayed had two bountiful lemon trees so I had the real thing to draw from, it’s…

With a mass of new calendula flowers growing outside, I didn’t feel too bad about making a handful of them sit in a vase to become the newest drawing matter. I’m not sure yet if they might have some ‘halo’ effects put on tomorrow, but incase I ruin the original drawing I thought it best…

Back to ink dip pen and collage for what was a complex bunch of sunflowers to draw. The ‘hung bunch’ is still something that interests me, and even if it means the drawing is a bit more compacted, I like it. There were a lot of lines and curves and contrast within this to keep…

A while back I liked the idea of drawing flowers growing from the centre of a book, so I set up a still life reference for it. It was shoved into my ‘visual diary’ album and pretty much forgotten about. Recently I pulled it out and made it into a quick ink pen and collage…