Chris' book - bluish entry from Marina

Hello everybody!
After years of break I was happy and excited to get back to this great group! I've forgot how fun it was - all these Moly exchanges, interacting with different artists from all over the world!
So here it comes - Chris' book with my entry. I don't really know how I've come to this image, maybe that's what Chris' cool photographs associate with for me.

Chris, hope you like it!
All I need now is to find a pigeon and send it to.... Who's next?

Anna Denise's Moly

My contribution to Anna Denise's Moly - pen and ink with a touch of watercolour pencil.

Who would like this very lovely book next? (seriously lovely pieces, everyone!)

I sent Chris' Moly to Marina and after months it was returned to me so I am going to post it to her again this week.

GIMMEE AN "M"!

MELISSA! MELISSA!! MELISSA!!! Now leading cheers for moly_x. I hope that you like it, 3MW.

Lisa's book

I finished up Lisa's book today. I've been experimenting with water soluble graphite lately and this book seemed to fit in well with that. Robin's entry before mine was a large facial spread in pencil. I'm pretty happy overall with my painting of Lisa, not so much of myself. I would have preferred to leave myself out completely! Maybe I just need more self portrait practice. It was difficult to even find a picture of myself. But rules are rules :D

I hope you like it Lisa. Oh also, this is just a snap taken with my iPhone. I'll scan a hi-res image tomorrow and post it to flickr.

Edit: I added the scanned image.

M&M Rock!

It's been a while since I wanted to put my hands on Marty's book and didn't have time... But here it comes - M&M Rock duet!
Marty, please, remind me - what song are we performing right now?

Melissa and I + our "babies"

First of all - sorry for the delay, but here it comes! I passed through a lot of Melissa's photos and found her photographed together with her daughter many times. The postures looked so familiar to me, and I found one picture of myself together with my "baby" that looked very similar.
Don't moms and their children look similar over the world?
Melissa, I hope you liked our group portrait.

10,000 Robins come marching over the hill...

I'll send this one off this week to Marina (I am sure she has enough). Should I send it to someone else who hasn't had this moleskine?

Strangers in Paris

Originally uploaded by 3MW

Melissa and Jan hanging out in Paris with matching scarves. I've superimposed Lisa's previous entry so you can get the idea of the sequence (and because starting from scratch in the middle of the book is a tad overwhelming). J'espère que vous l'aimez.

I need to work fast...

So I have noticed with the Portraits I need to work like I did when I used to do life drawing, fast and not thinking too much, and generally, I have a better attitude to it, and I am much happier with the result.

So!
Here is the first of the three I have. Marty as a raccoon style monster. I am very happy with his expression.

Rebel Papa had a golden beard

I started this entry as a monoprint, and added a little detail with gouache. I think it is a little difficult to see the gold gouache on the scan... but it is there. I just have to wait about a week to be sure it is all dry, then off to Rémi.

Suspicious Characters - Remi's moleskine

Here is my contribution to Remi's moleskine - portraits executed in sepia ink with a dip pen:



And the sign-in page to date:

All Aboard!

As soon as I saw these glasses I knew what I was going to draw. Unfortunately, It took me quite awhile to get to this. The holidays were way busy. I actually liked this a lot better when it was black and white. I really wish watercolor worked better on these pages, but I am moderately happy with the colored pencil too. I hope this "punches my ticket" as an honorary member of the portrait party. 

Chris, off to you tomorrow. 

Vive les Reines!

I have a thing for powdered wigs and all that.
I thought I'd carry on with the pencil, black & white with ribbons of pink. I hope you like it Lisa, and get ready Marty, we are on our way to you tomorrow!

Vast Expanses of Blue

My contribution to the sign in page for Marina's moly - I can dance, but I can't dance well!

Self portrait executed in broad strokes (and illustrating the dangers of using flash photographs for reference).

When doodling gets out of hand.

Melissa's moly

My entry for Melissa's moly. I also like how it looks the plate ;)

I hope she likes it :))

Robin's portrait

Finally I finished Robin's portrait. Of all his photos I like this the most because the way he proudly shows the fish he just caught.

I hope he likes it :)

What the...

Here is Marty's book, finally.

I learned a couple things working on this Moly. One is that when the page right in front of the one your doing is pretty heavily painted, try something other than watercolor. Melissa, your page still looks great, but that dark color really affected the page my portrait is on. So a lot of adjustment was needed. The other thing is that I really am enjoying this because it is forcing me to draw again. Thanks gang.

Oh, and Chris, there is some bleed-through on the next page. Good luck with that.

Grrr...

I am happy with my drawing of Rama. I was happy with my drawing of me, when it was in the same penned style, until I had a mishap with a wayward pen. In an attempt to camouflage the mistake, I painted over it with gouache. Then more mistakes cascaded onto the paper and this is the end result. Maybe by the time the book comes back to me, a time-machine will be invented and I can prevent that first and fatal pen splotch. Until then, Rama, I hope you like it :)

Red Islands

My entry in Jan's moleskine - Jan right side up and me up side down. I continued some of the patterns and words from her entry.



The full spread to-date.



My contribution to the mix & match sign-in page.

The Dark Side

Someone watched too many Batman movies lately.
This would have to be one of the strangest things to come out of my brush /pen from where I originally started and what I intended. Creating is a strange process sometimes.