TIMES TABLE ART - X3 TABLE - THREE'S A CHARM Today I completed my first artwork based on one of the Times Table charts I made recently. I have decided to add a quote or phrase representing the number to the first set, and thought a x3 table was good to start with,…
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…
A CELTIC ART SAMPLER Celtic art Recently I started work on some pop-up projects which included a rotating circles pop-out. I decided to decorate it with some Celtic art and knew I needed to practise. As a result of this, the pop-ups have taken a back seat for a while, as I work…
A BEAUTIFUL NEW DRAWING TOOL My latest drawing tool - a real treasure Some time ago I bought a cheap proportional divider to help with my continual problem of getting size and proportion correct in my drawings. I am improving in this direction, but sometimes it is extremely helpful to use this tool,…
ONLINE DRAWING COURSE - SELF PORTRAITS For our final project in the portraits module, we had to draw a self portrait. Initially I really wasn't sure about this. I haven't got any decent recent photos of myself and wasn't sure I really wanted to draw myself at all anyway! As a second choice,…
ONLINE ART COURSE - PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN WITH DARK HAIR This was the final directed project of the Portraits module, which Phil told us would be the most challenging project of the whole course. Methods of drawing portraits In the first project in this module, the portrait of a young boy, we…
VINES AND TRELLISES IN UFO - A NEW ZENTANGLE I am currently working on some interactive elements - pop-ups and pop-outs, and decided to decorate one of them with Zentangle. Browsing around I came across a very attractive new (to me, at least) grid pattern called UFO by Ginny Lu, and thought I…
WATER DROPLETS IN COLOURED PENCIL Following on from my previous post, with my drawing of some water droplets in graphite, here are some more, in coloured pencil. I thought it would be fun to do a whole collection, in different colours. I think they turned out OK. This time I did them without…
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…
