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…
NEGATIVE WATERCOLOURS - FIG LEAVES Not strictly speaking fig leaves - this tree in our garden doesn't produce figs, and we have been told it is something else (a false fig perhaps?) but it's close enough for our purposes. Here is the reference photo. I am not a huge fan of all-green English…
ONLINE ART COURSE - FIGURES MODULE - COMPLETING THE FIRST PROJECT As I mentioned in the previous post on this subject, I decided to make my own choice of figures to draw from the complete set. To finish this project, I chose figures five and six. Figure Five I really wanted to do…
NEGATIVE WATERCOLOURS - HOLEY MOLEY This was how my earlier negative watercolour "Filaments" was supposed to look (but with different colours) but it had a life of its own and went in its own direction before I could stop it!! Here's my attempt to put it right. The initial drawing With this one,…
