Sketchbook Project is in the mail

Got my sketchbook in the mail yesterday (on deadline day). Soon it will be touring the country with thousands & thousands of other Sketchbooks. It's exciting to be a part of something so big, but at the same time feeling like a tiny fish in a big pond - better than hiding under a rock, right?
I scanned it and posted it for your viewing curiosity. Eventually they will digitize it and be a permanent part of the collection at the Brooklyn Art Library.

Here a  Link to my scanned version

It's Raining Cats & Dogs
http://homepage.mac.com/justineremington/Justine_Remington_Sketchbook_Project_2011

A link to my profile page on the sketchbook site
http://arthousecoop.com/users/justineremington

A link to the tour schedule
http://arthousecoop.com/projects/sketchbookproject/exhibitions

 

(image via sketchbook project website)

Here comes Trouble! Sketchbook Project

Worked on some sketchbook pages today. Trouble is a very photogenic cat, so I'll probably be using her in a lot of pages  :)

Here comes Trouble!

 Here is the dedication page for Watson

Learn more about The Sketchbook Project

disaster painting - fixed?

Here is the painting again. I used pastel pencils over the original painting. There are some spots that wouldn't take the pastel, because in those spots the color pencil was waxy instead of soluble, so the pastel skips over it (the pink color is that way), but over all, I think it looks better. I was doing this one to include in my Sketchbook I am working on for the sketchbook project, but in the rules it says not to use mediums that smudge, so that kind of eliminates pastels. I don't know if I'll try spraying it to the point of no smudge (which would darken the painting) or if I   will  print the scan and include it that way. We'll see.

Sketchbook Project: disaster painting

This is my disaster painting. I read in a magazine a painter/illustrator that used both colored pencil and water color to create interesting textures. but it didn't really work out for me. Some of the colored pencils I have are water soluble instead of waxy and they smeared and changed color instead of keeping their texture. I think I'm going to try to use this as a underpainting and apply pastels over it & see if I can salvage it.