WATER DROPLETS IN GRAPHITE It's been a while since I did anything in my Coptic-bound sketchbook. I was browsing Pinterest yesterday and came across a YouTube video demonstrating how to draw water droplets on lined paper, and thought I'd give it a go. The artist did the whole demonstration at an angle, unfortunately,…
ONLINE ART COURSE - PORTRAIT OF A MAN IN A HAT For the second project in the portraits module, we had to draw a man with ink pens. This was a real challenge. With the first portrait in the module, we used "partial tracing" to get the proportions right, tracing small marks at…
3-D HOLES - ANOTHER DRAWING IN MY RHODIA DRAWING BOOK I really wasn't sure what to call this drawing! It was inspired by a picture I saw on Pinterest, which I think was actually a photo of a wood carving rather than a drawing. It didn't come out quite as I wanted, and…
ONLINE ART COURSE - PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG BOY The portraits module We are rapidly approaching the end of this course, with the penultimate module which is on portraits. Hard to believe we are now at this stage! The time has raced by. Introducing portraits We have done some portraits earlier in the…
ONLINE ART COURSE - COMPLETING THE FIGURES MODULE As always, the final project of the module was the self-directed challenge. Phil, our teacher, reckons that we have learnt enough in the previous three projects to go it alone and put what we have learnt into practice without him holding our hands. This time…
WATERCOLOUR PAINTING - MY FIRST ATTEMPT AT NEGATIVE STENCILLING While I have done negative stencilling on various mixed media projects, I have not attempted it with watercolour painting until now. I am working on a collection of negative watercolour paintings and thought that some negative stencilling would complement the theme. Eventually all these…
INK PEN DRAWING - FISH IN THE SEAWEED Today I completed another drawing in my small Rhodia drawing book. I love this little book with its black padded hard cover and elastic to keep it closed, and its beautifully smooth cream coloured pages. When I first got it, the combination of black and…
ONLINE ART COURSE - A GROUP OF CYCLISTS IN PASTEL PENCIL Warming to pastel pencils After completing my recent nude figure study in pastel pencils, I found myself definitely warming to the medium. I've had good success with it, but didn't really want to pursue it. This was mostly because the pencils are…
TENDRILS, ROOTS AND SEEDS - ABSTRACT INK DRAWINGS The coloured version The other day I felt like doing a bit of ink pen drawing, and got my small sketchbook out. I recently saw someone on YouTub showing her sketchbook which had plenty of delightful doodles in it, some of which were coloured. My…
ONLINE ART COURSE - FIGURES MODULE - NUDE FIGURE Moving rapidly on in this current module, with only two further modules remaining in the course. How time flies... For this project, Phil chose a tasteful nude for us to work on. He said it was actually very difficult to find one on his…
