The Circle of Life – Karen’s Spread Ink and Coloured Pencil
I have finished my part of Anna Warren’s book in the second collaboration that I am part of. The theme for Anna’s book was the circle of life and, as I am in a vegetable moment, I went for the life cycle of the pumpkin.
The Circle of Life – Cover
Anna’s book is beautifully crafted , you can see that she has printed the cover and her attention to detail is fabulous, it must be all that miniature work that she does. I wanted to snatch my book back from her so I could finish it better, but for better or worse mine is on its journeys and I won’t see it back until it is full of fabulous drawings from the others.
The Circle of Life – First Page
This is the first shared page on which I have scattered pumpkin seeds and then followed it with the image of the pumpkin flower. Aren’t pumpkin flowers just fabulous, the colour and the shape, plus the fact they are so fragile, when they grow into such big sturdy fruit.
The last page has the pumpkin of course and although I have been buying all these weird shaped pumpkins, I went for the traditional ones. This is taken from some I bought on the weekend which have the most wonderful pumpkin shape, but are really only tiny about 8cm tall. I scanned the image but Anna’s delicate pencil drawing has not come up well. See the link at the bottom of the page to her blog to get some lovely images of her work.
The Circle of Life – Shared spread
This book will now wing its way across to Cathe in the states, as I await Gales to arrive here. For those of you who want to see what the others have been doing here is the links to their posts on their blogs.
Anna Warren’s Book – Circle of Life
Gale Everett Stahlke’s Book – Water
Cathe Jacobi’s Book – Collections
Karen Bailey’s Book – Patterns in Nature – Forest
I cannot tell you how much we are all enjoying this and being able to share the process with each other and our blogging friends.
Karen
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