Zen drawings

I haven't been sewing that much lately but I've been working in my sketch book adding some zen drawings.  I intend to use these drawings in my artwork somehow.  Perhaps in making a stamp or as a background or something.  Here, first of all,  is my sketchbook covered in a collage of materials that I put together.  Yes, I had made a handy dandy glasses case to go with it :)

Here is a page of drawings I've been working on lately.  When I started out I was doing zen drawings by dividing a box into sections and then filling it in with various designs.  It's evolved a little since then.  These are not completely finished.  I usually use a black Staedtler pigment liner size 0.1.

Drawing workshop with Elizabeth Veninga

I had organized a drawing workshop taught by Elizabeth Veninga, a local artist to our group Out-of-the-Box, the fibre arts group I belong to and we held it on June 2nd.  It went very well and I think people enjoyed it.  We had 10 participants.  We learned to do some blind drawing which is drawing without looking at your hand and we also worked on large pieces of paper on an easel in conte and charcoal reproducing a photo to scale and drawing a rock roughly to scale.

Here are some photos of my work.  The first one is a charcoal version of the photo.  It's not quite finished.

This second one is a charcoal version of the rock on the top left.