EASEL CARD FOR A 90th BIRTHDAY We have been invited to a 90th birthday tea party on Sunday, and I have made a special card for this very special lady. I am not generally speaking a card maker at all these days, as I have branched out into other creative activities which I…
DOMESTIKA COURSE - ENGLISH CALLIGRAPHY - ALTERNATIVE LETTERS, NUMBERS AND COMPOSITION A couple of not terribly successful sessions - a mixed bag, really. Alternative letters This was quite a short lesson, and not very exciting. It was really about different entry and exit strokes on various lowercase letters for variety, and also for…
HEBREW CALLIGRAPHY PICTURES FRAMED Today the parcel arrived from the online framing shop, with the mounts and frames for my two Hebrew calligraphy pictures which I did during the latest Domestika course. My name in Calligraphy This was the first exercise we had to do on the course. The calligraphy didn't have to…
MASK AND SPRAY This is a technique which I think I am right in saying that I invented myself. I've never seen anyone else do this. It is a method of spray-painting a background and using cut out shapes as masks. The shapes prevent the sprayed ink touching the paper underneath. Turning the…
KITCHEN PAPER MOP-UP SHEETS Following on from my recent post about scratch papers, it seemed a logical progression to do one about my gorgeous kitchen paper mop-up sheets. I make scratch papers by applying excess paint or ink onto paper with a brush or stamp, or perhaps a stencil, to clean them off…
HOW TO MAKE FAUX LEATHER This is an update of a post I made on my old blog ten years ago. For this project, I made two sheets, intending to use one as a masterboard to cut up and use in different projects, and the other as a photographic background. Introduction Faux leather…
SCRATCH PAPER Having recently started a new scratch paper with gold on tea-dyed paper, I thought I'd do a post about scratch papers in general. What are scratch papers, and why make them? Paint is expensive. I hate waste. I love recycling and upcycling! Watercolour on the palette will dry out, but you…
SEND IN THE CONES Caroline, one of my pals on the ArtKula art forum, has gained quite a reputation for her famous watercolour sketches of wheelie bins and traffic cones. She loves painting ordinary things, and it has become quite a joke between us. She reported recently that she'd been out painting on…
ONLINE ART COURSE - THE FINAL PROJECT - CHERRIES... AND MORE! I'm feeling quite sad. This is the final directed challenge of the whole year-long course, and it's hard to believe that it's finished, apart from the self-directed challenge which will be anything you like - totally open ended! I think Phil, our…
ONLINE ART COURSE - LEAVES AND FLOWERS ON GREY PAPER The final module of the course! I cannot believe I have just started the final module of this year-long course. How quickly the time has gone, and what a lot I have learnt. After increasingly challenging projects in recent months, the first project…
