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#100daystreetales (pt 5)

The 100 day project is complete!

I have been very buzy setting up an exhibition in the village, but somehow I have managed to keep up with the days!!

These are drawn, direct with permanent, indian ink onto the inkjet print paper after spending some Time with the shapes in the branches and ‘seeing’ what arises in them.
They are not penciled out first.
They are then stained with a homemeade stain made from alder-bark.
This can be layered for shading and has a beautiful, natural, luminous quality.

All of this batch are ‘first-takes’, with no-re-draws this Time!

Each addition is published daily on Facebook, where the whole collection, so far, can be viewed at #100daystreetales (typed in Facebook search)
The comments have been encouraging and fun!

Or follow these links for previous blog posts:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

  • bats
  • wolf spider
  • grey heron
  • toad
  • ibex
  • howl
  • taking off
  • chameleon
  • buzz buzz
  • wood sprite (2)
  • dragonfly
  • jaguar
  • goliath grouper
  • platypus
  • red squirrel
  • ancestor
  • funny sort of fish…always rushing
  • skin to skin
  • sleeping wild boar
  • tamandua anteater
  • lion
  • lama
  • diamond backed python
  • i am a walrus
  • monitor lizard

And last, but not least…..here’s a hedgehog!
It was so sweet.
A freind of mine came to the Gaia-Hut exhibition and looked through all the 100 days images and had a bit of a sad face….she so wanted to find hedgehog, as she had been having a lovely time with some in her garden!

I picked up the next blank…and there it was! A hedgehog.

Hope this will make her happy when she next visits.

hedgehog