Sketchbook competition

My thanks to Sian and her 'judging team' for awarding me 2nd prize in her recent Sketchbook challenge with my selection of 10 pages.  I am looking forward to spending my voucher at Art Van Go.  They have such a wonderful online catalogue that choosing only a few items and not the whole shop will be the problem!
I suspect the ordered items may appear in my next assessment piece, but then there are those Markal paintstiks.....and you can't have too many Pink Pig notebooks....See what I mean?

Congrats, of course, to Anne and Jen on their awards.  It was lovely to look at their work and the other entrants on Sian's website - amazing how different our styles can be.

And many thanks to friends overseas and in Aus for your kind comments.

Sketchbook pages "Looking into..."

Here are my sketchbook pages for Sian's Distant Stitch competition entitled "Looking into....".

Many of you know of my love of making handbags 'on the side' to my City and Guilds studies so I decided to "look into ....my basket of handbag bits" for this.  Here is a selection of those buckles, catches, feet, etc so that you know what I'm on about!

The sketchbook pages following are all A5size.

1 and 2 are graphite drawings on page washed with diluted procion dyes.

3. uses watercolour pencils and fine tipped white and black pens

 4. Drawing in chalk pastels on black.

 5. is a collage representation in printed newsprint.

 6. Rubbings in oil pastels over O- and D-rings then schematic shapes of clips and twistlocks cut out of page to reveal black page below.

 7. Page cut into strips from centre, folded back and woven to give a link to the original basket, and to allow the viewer to look inside at charcoal drawings and embossed aluminium cut shapes.

 8. Monoprinting in 3 layers to build up 'drawing' made from the back of page

9. Monoprinting in several colours on page over shape resists.  Resulting coloured resists glued offset to give shadow effect.

10. Partial drawings in oil pastels, page washed in diluted Procion dye solution, dye removed with thickened bleach drawings, free machining of repeating shapes in black thread.

Many thanks for the challenge, Sian. I tried to include as many different types of media as I could but I found (like Jen I think) that it made the selection of only 10 all the more difficult!