Sketchbook journal part 2

Ok, I've been doing some scanning.... There's quite a lot of my visual diary I haven't shown you yet. I started it in March 2013, so it's been my companion for a while now. It even managed to get us a parking ticket as we carelessly abandoned our campervan in the Hobbycraft car park and walked across the road to Waterstones to buy it. (Which apparently is not allowed)

The churchyard picture was drawn using a 0.1 fine liner and water soluble pencils. The trees in the background I have roughly coloured in and scribbled, just to give an impression rather than drawing them in detail. I chose not to colour in the gravestones as I think they stand out more this way. If I was to colour them in I think they would be too similar in colour to the sky (which was very dingy that day).

The marker pen that I used for the writing, and also a little bit of shading was running out, but I purposely keep them when they get to this stage, even though most people would throw them away. They give a much more subtle effect and are much better for shading. I put a sticker on the end so that I don't get it muddled up with my good marker.

                                   All images copyright Rebecca Gregory 2013