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…
TEABAG ART - BEAUTIFUL STAINING Over the past few weeks I have been drying various teabags on watercolour paper to create stains. In my box of miscellaneous and scrap watercolour paper I have a small stack of textured, quite thick paper which I have discovered does not behave well with watercolours - the…
COLOURED PENCIL DRAWING - TONY'S CAT SMUDGE, AND MY LATEST KITTY PHOTOS When we visited my hubby's 96-year-old friend on Sunday, I took several photos of his cat. I had not been to his apartment since his wife died and before they got Smudge, so this was the first time I had seen…
COMPLETING THE PEN AND WATERCOLOUR MODULE IN THE ONLINE ART COURSE I can't believe I have completed yet another module in the course - the fifth of eleven, so nearly half way through! The next one, coloured pencils, is the last one concentrating on a particular medium. The remaining modules are subject-based, where…
ONLINE ART COURSE - SMOKING MAN IN INK PENS AND WATERCOLOUR Old and young faces Before we began this project, Phil (the teacher) showed us a few images of faces. He said that in this medium, it is much more interesting to draw older faces with plenty of lines and wrinkles, giving us…
ONLINE ART COURSE - SMALL SKETCHES IN WATERCOLOUR AND INK PENS PT 2 This afternoon my hubby and I sat down to complete this project with the final four of eight small sketches of buildings using watercolour and ink pens in a very loose sketchy style. I thought I wasn't going to enjoy…
ONLINE ART COURSE - SMALL SKETCHES IN WATERCOLOUR AND INK PENS When I saw what was to come in this project, I thought I wasn't going to enjoy it much, because the loose sketchy style really isn't my thing. However, I was pleasantly surprised! My hubby and I worked on the first four…
GREEN MARBLES IN COLOURED PENCILS My third post today! Shiny, transparent and/or reflective surfaces I've always been fascinated by these. I know that all that glisters is not gold, but I do love a bit of bling, and I love the play of light in and around transparent objects. For years I have…
TEABAG STAINS - AN UNEXPECTED RESULT My second post today. From previous blog posts, you will know that I often dry used teabags on watercolour paper, where they leave gorgeous stains that you can then doodle on. I've got a box of pieces of watercolour paper (some of them reject paintings of my…
