ONLINE ART COURSE - DRAWING THE SECOND EYE The second project in Module A (graphite) is "Eye Studies." This afternoon I worked on the second eye. As before, we began by mapping out the essentials, following along with the teacher's drawing, and referring constantly to the reference photograph. This eye was a bit…
ONLINE ART COURSE - WORKING ON THE SECOND PROJECT Eye studies I've begun the second projct in the course, which is on drawing eyes. When I saw what we were expected to do, I thought it looked much too hard and I'd never be able to do that! However, he is such a…
ONLINE ART COURSE - COMPLETING MY FIRST PROJECT This afternoon I followed along with the teaching videos and completed my first project - the still life of onions and garlic, using graphite pencils. Here is a montage of the completed drawing with the first drawing minus the shading. It is amazing what…
ONLINE ART COURSE I am not normally someone who takes any notice of ads on YouTube, apart from getting profoundly irritated by them, but occasionally something comes up which stands out from the rest and sparks my interest. This time it was an online art course called Draw Awesome. Phil, the teacher, has…
RECYCLED PAPER-GLASSINE BAG ALBUM - THE BINDING AND FINAL FLIP-THROUGH I've finished it! It was quite a sweat getting the final stages done, but I wanted to get it finished before Tuesday when I was meeting up with my friend who I was sure would want to see it. Nothing like a deadline…
RECYCLED PAPER-GLASSINE BAG ALBUM - THE SIXTH AND FINAL FOLIO Very exciting to have reached the final folio of this recycled album. The theme of this one is trees, following on nicely from the previous one which is botanical. The front page I used a fairly large tree stamp for the focal image.…
RECYCLED PAPER-GLASSINE BAG ALBUM - THE FIFTH FOLIO The fifth folio of this recycled album has a botanical theme. Choosing papers A few days ago, I die-cut a lot of leaves and coloured them with Distress Spray Stains, and made different backgrounds, negative spaces and stencilled pieces in the process. These two backgrounds…
RECYCLED PAPER-GLASSINE BAG ALBUM - LEAVES FOR THE FINAL TWO FOLIOS The final two folios of this album will be based on botanicals and trees. I had pretty much run out of ready-to-use leaves so it was high time I made some more. I do always have a number of uncoloured die cuts…
RECYCLED PAPER-GLASSINE BAG ALBUM - THE FOURTH FOLIO Today I completed the fourth folio of this recycled album, with a theme of entomology. Lots of bugs! Before we begin, I downloaded some gorgeous freebies from VectoriaDesigns. Tinne is very generous with her free downloads, some of which are just backgrounds and elements, and…
RECYCLED PAPER-GLASSINE BAG ALBUM - DIGITAL ELEMENTS AND SPECIMEN SLIDES An update on the third folio Looking at the front page, I noticed that the pointing finger at the top of the page wasn't really standing out, so I added some shading around it, and this has improved things. Also, the tag with…
