ONLINE ART COURSE - BOAT ON A BEACH, AND A GREEDY CAT Boat on a Beach in pen and pastel pencil For the second project in the landscapes module, we were given a mixed media piece to do. It was the first time that Phil, our teacher, had combined pastel pencil with ink…
NEGATIVE PAINTING When I first came across this, I thought, "What...?" I was intrigued, and decided to investigate. The idea The idea of negative painting is that you don't paint the objects; you paint the negative space between the objects. Sounds counter-intuitive? Actually it's quite good training for looking at the spaces between…
ALTERED FILE FOLDER (AFTER BOHEMIAN CRAFTING) - PREPARATION Preparing the folder I follow Eva of Bohemian Crafting on YouTube. She makes gorgeous mixed media interactive objects - books, folios, all in a grungey vintage style which is right up my street. At the moment I am following along as she alters a file…
BLUE TEA AND RED-GREEN VINEGAR - MORE TEABAG STAIN EXPERIMENTS Shoshi the Mad Scientist has been at it again. Blue teabags I saw a video on YouTube recently where someone was making teabag art from Butterfly Pea teabags. I had never heard of this before, and was intrigued. The tea is an intense…
ONLINE ART COURSE - CLOUDY SKY IN GRAPHITE I have now got half way through the course, and begun the first module where we concentrate on subject matter rather than medium, in this case, landscapes. Graphite We haven't worked in graphite pencil since the first module when we did the still life of…
OUR CEANOTHUS IN WATERCOLOUR Our ceanothus bush is in full bloom at the moment, and for several days I wanted to paint it. I took this photo from outside the back door, looking up towards the garage at the top of the garden. Creating the reference photo I thought the angle was quite…
A NEW TOY - NANOZOOM I recently bought a nifty little gadget for my phone - a Nanozoom. This is a 200x microscope lens that you clip onto the phone in order to take extreme magnification photos. I had to fiddle around with it a bit in order to line it up on…
Today is my 71st birthday (eek... I haven't even managed to get my head around being 70 yet!). The day started badly with my waking up at 7.00 a.m. so I thought I'd get up, but I'd only started to get ready when I felt so tired and in need of more sleep…
I am sad to see the end of the coloured pencils module. This has been one of my favourites to do, and I really enjoy working with this medium. After only a very few attempts, I think I have mastered it pretty well, and am looking forward to moving ahead and doing many…
ONLINE ART COURSE - ROBIN IN COLOURED PENCILS This was a very exciting project, requiring more skill than previous projects in the coloured pencils module, because it was a more detailed drawing, and it was also more photo-realistic than previous projects which were more sketchy. The drawing step by step As usual, we…
