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Abstracts in My Sketchbook

Got myself a new Baohong hot-pressed accordion sketchbook. Have decided (I think) to use it for abstract work. Here’s one of the first. Began with a few random pieces of collage. Added splooshy watercolours and scraped them with a plastic scrapey thing. Went around the edges of the collage and the page border with charcoal. Added some mark-making with pens and used a toilet roll inside to stamp white oval shapes. The page is 6.5 x 6.5 inches.

Here’s another similar one. The splashes of white are made with watery Dr PH Martin’s Bleedproof white, which I couldn’t manage without.