Category: Art

Mar 25

Mandala Monoprint

By Kater in alternart, Art, Postcard, Printmaking

This is one of my favorite postcard monoprints. I can’t remember how I even got this particular pattern with the mandala stencil, but I do know that this is the same stencil I used on the book cover. When monoprints come out right, they really come out right. I think I’ve already mailed this to …

acrylic, mandala, monoprint, stencil

Mar 20

Sparrow Sketch

By Kater in Art, drawing

This sparrow sketch would have worked great as an independent image, that is, if I had cut it out from the paper and pasted just the bird onto another background. I should probably still do that. I love when other people do that kind of combination of patterns and illustrations, but I just didn’t. I …

ink, scrapbook paper, sketch, sparrow

Mar 18

Blue Jay and Chintz

By Kater in alternart, drawing, Printmaking

Here’s another bird drawing that I did while on the phone. I sketched it with the pen I usually write with, my favorite uniball vision elite, and when I got home I finished inking it in with a brush and some liquid blue ink. I’d hoped that the background patter would have made more of …