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Tag Archives: mixed media
Pen+Gear Sketchbooks: Not All Are Winners
I’ve been working on notions of what the final scenes of my Teenage Beast story will be like, sketching ideas in my Pen+Gear Sketch Diary. As I have written before, that sketchbook is a gem as far as price and … Continue reading
Posted in Doodle Tuesday, Illustration, It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch
Tagged acid-free, art supplies, budget sketchbooks, dragon sketch, feathering, fountain pens, India, ink bleed, mixed media, Paper quality, Pen+Gear, rough sketches, Sketch Diary, sketchbooks, Teenage Beast, Ticonderoga UCreate, Vietnam, Walmart
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Canson XL Mixed Media Pad 7 x 10 inches
I’m still working on this sketchbook. It’s not finished, but I thought I would talk a bit about it this week. This is a similar sketchbook to the one I recently finished off in that it’s a mixed media pad … Continue reading
Posted in Doodle Tuesday, It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged analog, Canson, Cartoon, cartoons, comics, Cosmic Maaaaaannnnn, horror, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, mixed media, Monsters, pen and ink, Sailor Fude, sketchbook, The Goo Goo Muck, USA
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Street Art
Seen on 9th Street, mixed media – old newspaper articles, maps and paint.
Posted in Collage, Italian Market, Philadelphia
Tagged maps, mixed media, newspapers, paint
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Goodbye Half a Sketchbook
A while back, I had the bold notion of trying to replicate my beloved Sketchbook from Heaven by cleaving a larger pad of paper in two. It was a great idea, and if it worked, I would have bought several … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged Atomic Warrior, doodle, drawing, ink, It Came From The Sketchbook, Joe Williams, landscape, mixed media, pencil, Sketch, sketchbook, small
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Friday Five – Number Forty Four
Forty fourth in a series creating a collage using five elements.


