Artwork created on iPad and computer
DESIGNING MY OWN WASHI TAPES I recently bought some candy striped washi tapes which I really love, but they are quite hard to find, quite expensive, and usually come with a pretty hefty postage rate as well. I thought how cool it would be to design my own. I recently made some from…
TISSUE BOX FOLIOS PART 2 - COMPLETION OF FLORAL FOLIO Continuing to follow the "Chasing Paper" YouTube video, I steamed ahead, working solely on the floral folio, which I completed in a couple of sessions in the studio. I didn't photograph every stage but once it was completed, I photographed the whole project…
2025 - END OF YEAR REVIEW It's been a relatively quiet year, all told. Not a great deal to report on our normal activities. Most of my activity this year has been art-related. Studio changes I got some great new shelving units for the studio and reorganised things to make life a lot…
DIGITISING MY MIXED MEDIA PAPERS To get more use out of my recently created papers, I decided to scan them and digitise them. I really liked the detail shots I took of the papers, and decided to digitise these too. For a different and somewhat cleaner look, I made the rather rash decision…
JUNK JOURNAL - MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE PART 24 Starting the final embellishments Now that the book is bound, all that remains is to add some final embellishments. I began with the fold-out envelopey thing in the second signature. I originally intended filling the two triangular pockets with smaller tags and ephemera, but…
INVASION OF THE KILLER COURGETTES! Recently, our lovely next-door-neighbour gave us one of her weird courgettes. She grows a lot of vegetables and is always giving us lovely fresh produce, amongst which are various varieties of courgette. Her grandchildren always fall about laughing when they see them, and think a lot of them…
JUNK JOURNAL - MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE PART 6 Working on pages and folios Quite a productive session in the studio this afternoon. I continued to work on some pages I'd already started, and began some more. Envelope paper This is envelope paper with the pattern on the inside to prevent the contents…
DOMESTIKA COURSE - THE ART OF MANDALA DRAWING - FINDING MANDALAS EVERYWHERE! Our next exercise at the beginning of this new course was to find mandalas in nature and in everyday life. Mandalas from things found in nature Veg prep One of the early exercises in this course is to look for mandalas…
TIMES TABLE ART I have recently been watching some very interesting YouTube videos from Mathologer. I don't claim to understand a lot of what he says because maths is not my subject. I am keen to learn more, though, because there is something deeply fascinating about how numbers are the foundation of all…
FISH IN MY DESIGNS AND PATTERN BOOK, AND A SERENDIPITOUS ABSTRACT WATERCOLOUR Fish In preparation for my next negative watercolour painting, I have been collecting images of fish to draw. Some are more realistic, and some more stylised. I have drawn them first with pencil and then with a permanent fineliner in my…
