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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
STENCILS FROM ALI EXPRESS Recently I was searching for some suitable lids for the new cat food tins we are getting, and the only place I could find where they had them of the correct small size and not in multi-sized sets was AliExpress. I duly ordered two packs of eight, and they…
NEGATIVE WATERCOLOUR - KOI CARP, OUR FIRST PLUM CROP, AND A HEALTH UPDATE Negative Koi Carp This is a negative watercolour I have been wanting to do for some time. I used several unrelated images of koi carp from the internet as inspiration, and made my own composition and colouring. Every picture goes…
ONLINE ART COURSE - BOSTON TERRIER IN GRAPHITE, AND A HEALTH UPDATE I am not really a dog person, but I had to admit that I found this picture adorable! Nice to be back with graphite again, as well. I enjoy this medium. It is a lot less messy than charcoal, although it…
ONLINE ART COURSE - EAGLE IN CHARCOAL Several months ago I completed the charcoal module, and was heartily glad to do so, and I put my charcoal away in the dark recesses of my Spare Art Materials box, assuming they would not see the light of day again. However... we are now in…
A NEW TOY - NANOZOOM I recently bought a nifty little gadget for my phone - a Nanozoom. This is a 200x microscope lens that you clip onto the phone in order to take extreme magnification photos. I had to fiddle around with it a bit in order to line it up on…
