sketchbook

here is my second sketchbook page for opposites.  I am a bit of a cat lover so humour me.

i think the opposites theme is pretty obvious.

Opposites no 1

Well, a week has passed.  It was a very important week, I suppose.  I have been busy helping with our art display and kids workshops for the fire memorial and archive launch on Sunday.  It all went well and now I have finally finished my first opposites page in my sketchbook.

This is my brainstorm, or mind map.  The first idea, which was particularly relevant right now, was fire and water.

I started with a two sided, picasso sort of face and used the yin yang symbol for the eyes.  In the diagonally opposite corners I used  an old fashioned inks pen to write opposite words - one set in red, the other in blue.  Then I painted the fire and water over the top of the diagonally opposite quarters of the face.
Well, that is my first go.  I used watercolour paint on cartridge type paper and ink pens.

Opposites attract

I have been lurking around the sketchbook challenge until I finally decided to join in and today is the new theme of opposites.  I decided to do a wordle of lots of opposite words to use in a collage later on
 
This is a very small picture but you can visit it at wordle here
So far, I have started two sketches and nearly finished one, maybe post tomorrow, with a mind map of my ideas