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“Of course I struggle. I just don’t quit.”
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I used grid paper to play with some patterns that I had stashed away – it fell into my hands while reorganizing the studio so time to use it again. I adhered it with doublesided tape and then stamped with Moonlight Duo ink pads and some of my favorite stamps for pattern making: Triangle Love, Hex Set Small, Mini Motifs, and Floral Tile Small. For the dots? A pencil eraser. And then I sketched my figure using a bamboo sketching pen, acrylic inks and markers on deli paper.
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I added my quote with Posca markers to finish things off.
Here are some of the supplies I used:
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