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…
Today is my 71st birthday (eek... I haven't even managed to get my head around being 70 yet!). The day started badly with my waking up at 7.00 a.m. so I thought I'd get up, but I'd only started to get ready when I felt so tired and in need of more sleep…
SHOSHI'S LITTLE BLACK BOOK, AND SOME GOLD MANDALAS Little Black Book lost and found What I used to call my Rhodia drawing book has now been renamed. Shoshi's Little Black Book. Foz, a member of the art forum I am on, called it that and it's stuck! It doesn't contain naughty stuff though,…
STUDIO TIDYING, TEABAG STAINS, CROCHET AND EMBROIDERY, AND ORGANISING A NEW PAINT BOX - ACTIVITIES DURING ONLINE ART COURSE REST WEEK I saved this as a draft on 1st May and then forgot to publish it. I posted it on 19th May, back-dated to 1st May. What did I do in the rest…
