Wordless Wednesday: Sketchbook part 2

i've got lots of ideas to write about, but no time. So i'm posting some more pics from the art journal.

This park is on the east side of Indianapolis,  i think we hiked here on Labor Day last year.

oh, plus one greeting card. i love the way my Faber Castell Polychromos show up so well on the black!

Notes from a library art book.  i've made a thumbnail of the cover art to help me remember which book, because i want to work with it some more!

The balloon flowers bloom in the summer, so this is definitely going back a way, maybe July. i've used ink with the pencils, though i don't remember which brand.  There's several that work pretty much the same for me.

An experimentation page:  Black over a color makes a very dark dark, but often using other dark colors are more interesting.  Here, i've used various purples, blues, and greens to shadow the ultrasimple conifers.