A look inside the artist’s sketchbook exploring the symbolic interpretations of birds and vessels. Mixed media artwork featuring gel plate printing, collage, pastel and conte crayons.
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Mini collage a day challenge part 3
Here is the next installment of mini collages created in my 2x3 inch sketchbook. This challenge, so far, has been a great way to ensure that I show up to the page and create something everyday, even if I only have a few spare moments. It doesn't take long to fill a 2x3 inch page …
Mini collage a day sketchbook
Miniature collages in a tiny sketchbook- creative rituals to help show up to your practice everyday
Sketchbook Explorations: Vessels
Recently I have been interested in exploring vessels in my art work. Here is a sneak peek into my sketchbook to see some of the ideas I have been playing with. I have a dedicated vessels sketchbook that I have been working in for a few months to collect ideas. Enjoy!
Capturing everyday joy
This week I focused on my word of the year RECEIVE by honing in on small moments of joy. This included moments of joy I'd created for myself as well as moments that occurred naturally in my environment. One of those sparks of joy that I received this week was the simple act of buying …
What I’m working on
Rachel Crawshaw: sketch book page Rachel Crawshaw- sketchbook page exploring negative space, collage and mono printing My current art explorations are centered around vessels- like vases, cups and bowls. I am also interested in bird imagery. The Vessels and birds are both images I am using in my own symbolic language. I am trying to …
Collaborative Sketchbook
I am very excited to be taking part in a collaborative art challenge with my fellow artists at the Thursday Art Club. Together we are filling a collaborative sketchbook. The process is that an artist (in this case me) starts the sketch book with a two page spread, the book is then passed on to …
Life Drawing: collage and watercolour pencil sketches
In a recent life drawing session at Hush life drawing in Clitheroe I tried something a bit different to my usual pencil sketches. In preparation for this session I made a rudimentary accordion sketchbook using mixed media paper. I then collaged the paper using pages from a vintage nurses dictionary. To help with drawing onto …
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Resilience- an accordion Sketchbook
For one of the Fodder School 1 projects I undertook this year the challenge was to make an accordion style sketchbook. This gave me the perfect excuse to continue my exploration into symbolism and create another sketchbook, but also combining it with the techniques I've learned during fodder school. The Fodder school lessons to create …
Vessels- an accordion sketchbook
As mentioned in a previous post this year I have been experimenting with the idea of building up my own symbolic language to use in my art practice and as a way to explore psychological aspects of my Self. The symbol of a "vessel" has come up repeatedly in my explorations and during one of …
Mushroom Moon Designs 