Wreck This Journal: Make a Paper Chain

I have a passion for music and I love a few heavy metal bands, so I thought the lyrics 'Breaking the Chains' by Dokken, seamed kind of perfect for this page.

I sketched the heart with a blue ballpoint pen and I did the shading with a blue pencil. The background was done smudging a brown pencil.

To make the chain, I cut the strips, folded and twisted them to give a more realistic look. And then I painted random strokes of silver, copper and black.

A simple page but it has a lot of meaning for me..

Wreck This Journal: Fill this Page with Circles

When I thought about circles instantly came to mind Victor Vasarely (op art), Georges Seurat (pointillism) and Pop Art.

And because I couldn't decide which way to go, I combined everything in a single drawing.



So this is a 'pop art' girl visiting the museum.
I did everything with markers and free hand, no sketching involved that's why it's a little bit bumpy.

If you don't know Victor Vasarely I'd recommend to check him out, his art blew my mind when I was 14 years old and that's what got me into creating things and later into studying art history.

Wreck This Journal: Create a Drawing Using a Piece of Your Hair

This is one of my favourite pages,  I used my cat Satan as a nude model. I sketched him quickly, I covered the drawing with PVA and gradually I added small pieces of my hair. 

But don't worry, I have an undercut so I do this on weekly basis. The good thing is that now I've found a fun thing to do with my discarded hair.

To colour this in I used acrylic paints because it dries rapidly and it covers everything.

For the cat I used:

• Burnt Umber
• Burnt Sienna
• Cadmium Yellow Deep
• Titanium White 
• Phthalo Green
• Black pen

Background: 

• Phthalo Green
• Titanium White
• Pencil for shading

I like to combine unusual colours to experiment and make something that it's not expected.