So here is my last double page and it is where I have put my contents.  The contents are in circles and little circles join them all like a chain.  Think of cycles and life cycles, some planetary orbits, mushroom rings, ripples from a single rain drop, flower heads, rock formations craters, and many more.  Chains of events one leading to another and some branching off.  This was mostly acrylic paint and computer generated text.

That was my last page of my little book.  I hope you have enjoyed it and I hope it stands up to it’s tour with the Sketchbook project.

Concentric circles was what I was actually thinking about, like water ripples and tree rings and rock formations and such like, for this page.  I used a mixture of Pitt pens Copic pens and acrylic paint.

I have just used random patterns for this page with a few snakeskin type patterns, dots, circles, brain corral (stencil) and wood grain.  It didn’t really come out how I had planned it to but hey-ho I wasn’t going to change it.  I used spray inks, stamps, clear embossing powder and some acrylic paint.

Of all the beautiful fractal (self – similar) patterns that are out there I chose to do rather a plain page to depict them.  I couldn’t make up my mind if I wanted to draw trees or feathers or rivers or ferns or nerves or mycelium or a thunder bolt or crystals or snowflakes or alveoli or blood vessels or……. …..So I made my trees look a bit like feathers which looked a bit like furrows on a hillside with mountains in the background and I added some ferns and angelica type plants.  This page was done using watercolour pencils and a black Pitt pen.

What do footballs and bees have in common?  Hexagons.   I was thinking about how the same shapes keep cropping up in nature.  This page shows the humble hexagon in the bee’s honeycomb and Buckminsterfullerene (truncated icosahedron)  or C60 – no I didn’t draw a football.  I used acrylics paints mostly and some pencils and oil pastels to add highlights.

I just love doing this kind of doodle!  I was thinking about the fact that earthworms take the dead leaves and make lovely rich compost from them – just another one of natures recyclers.  If it wasn’t for nature’s recyclers what would our Earth look like today I wonder?  I had gesso-ed the page first but forgot that my water soluble graphite pencils would not blend they way I had wanted them to on that sealed surface so I changed to ordinary graphite pencils and blended them with a paper stump instead   Also used a copic multi liner pen and a pink pencil.

I didn’t plan to do this page really, but instead, I was going to do one large dendrite with lots of branches off.  I was playing around with my inks and compressed air and decided to do lots of interconnections like those in the brain (hence the grey background).  I did think that if I just tried to go vertical and horizontal only then it would not look as messy as if I had blown the ink in all directions. Everything is interconnected in some way or other.

I drew the left side onto some coloured background paper using a black pen and water soluble graphite pencils then scanned it into my computer and mucked a round with the image in photoshop for the right hand side.  Concentric rings turn up all the time.

Inspiration for this double page is Spirals.  You can find spiral formations everywhere in nature be it in flora, fauna, weather patterns, rock formations etc.  I have chosen an Ammonite to show a logarithmic spiral (Fibonacci or Golden spiral).  I used mostly acrylic paint for this page and a touch of oil pastels and a sepia pen.

Inspired by the book CHAOS making a new science by James Gleick; another good read.  The Butterfly effect (sensitive dependence on initial conditions).  Tiny changes can have large consequences following a chain of events. (this is only a small portion of what the book is about – he explores randomness, patterns, science and maths and other theories).  Again this double page has watercolour pencils, inktense pencils, black Pitt pen and some butterfly stamps.