The Blank Page
Some people have a fear of being faced with a blank page. As for me, I love having a clean sheet of paper to play with, poised and ready to cover with lines and colour and mess and ....oh the possibilities! The one above took about 3 minutes or less, I just let the pen doodle away, travelling around the page. This one was drawn in a few minutes, the tree might look complicated at first but I splodged an area of black acrylic ink which dries very quickly and drew on top of it with a silver pen. The dots of blue ink were added with a brush. A lot of my pictures begin their lives as doodles, such as this one below... I had no intention of her wearing a lampshade on her head and wasn't planning on showing this one at first but I added watercolour to it and it looked like a finished picture. I'm still not sure about it but it's there for the world to see now! This bat lady doodle stayed safely in my sketchbook but there are aspects of it I'm sure I'll...