ONLINE ART COURSE - CAMPER VAN IN A DESERT LANDSCAPE We are now approaching the end of the landscapes module, with only the self-directed challenge to go. This is proving to be a great module to do, although I didn't enjoy the first one (the clouds in graphite). This particular project was worked…
SHOSHIVILLE BY MOONLIGHT - NEGATIVE WATERCOLOUR HOUSES I have been planning to do a quirky houses negative painting for a while, and made a collection of drawings in my designs and patterns book for reference. This drawing was quite a complicated one to do, and I hit one or two roadblocks along the…
QUIRKY HOUSES AND A GREEDY CAT UPDATE Quirky houses Rhodia designs and patterns book I have an A4-sized Rhodia notebook with squared paper, 80 gsm. Although it is thin, the quality is better than your average printer paper; it has quite a smooth surface and it is very good for drawing. I use…
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…
