FUSSY CUTTING DIGITALS I have recently downloaded quite a few digital kits for printing, mostly freebies from very generous artists who often create these to celebrate milestones in YouTube subscriber numbers, or for their birthdays and so on. I have also purchased a few kits. These are always very reasonably priced. Once you've…
TISSUE BOX FOLIOS PART 3 - COMPLETION OF VINTAGE GRUNGE FOLIO I have now completed the Vintage Grunge Folio and am very pleased with how this turned out. It has more elements to it than the Floral one and is pretty grungey. During the making of it, I incorporated a few ideas that…
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…
TISSUE BOX FOLIOS PART 1 Following along with the tutorial on the YouTube channel Chasing Paper, I am making two folios from empty tissue boxes. I am made them as a production line, working on them together for each stage. The owner of the channel has done two videos on this subject. The…
ISLAMIC ART ALBUM - TEZHIP WITH INTERLOCKING CIRCLES A few weeks ago I drew another Tezhip design for my Islamic Art Album and got as far as transferring the tracing to the page. I then went over to begin work on the second signature of the album which contains geometric designs, for a…
ISLAMIC ART ALBUM - SECOND GEOMETRIC PATTERN This is pattern B1 from Samira Mian's collection of 6-fold patterns. For further information about this, please see my earlier post. This is the layout for Pattern B1. As before, the basic pattern repeat (on the small piece of tracing paper on the left) looks pretty…
EMBELLISHED SKETCHBOOK To go with the Box of Delights that I made for my friend Caroline on the ArtKula forum, I made a small sketchbook. I have a few sheets left from an A3 pad of Daler Rowney hot-pressed watercolour paper. This is pretty heavy-weight and I've been using it for my detailed…
CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER - MAKING USE OF PACKAGING I recently searched online for some black striped washi tape which I have seen several people using, and which seems quite hard to find. Eventually I came across an online shop called Curiouser and Curiouser - the name itself was enough to make me want…
ISLAMIC ART ALBUM - BEGINNING SOME GEOMETRIC PATTERNS I have not yet completed the first signature of this album, which contains designs in the Arabesque style, but needed a change of mood for a while. I therefore began the second signature, which will contain geometric designs. For some time I have been following…
ISLAMIC ART ALBUM - FOURTH AND FIFTH PAGES - CENTREFOLD SHAMSA For the centrefold of the first signature of this album, I decided to do a full page spread. As with the shamsa on the first page, I drew a half shamsa, because a full circle would be too small to be able…
