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 - FOREST ANIMALS ON GREY PAPER For the second project in this final module of the course, we had to draw three different animals, using different mixed media for each. It was quite an interesting challenge, and I was quite pleased with my first two drawings but less satisfied with…
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…
TIMES TABLE ART - TWO TIMES TABLE - TWO BY TWO There was really no choice over the subject of this drawing - "Two by Two" had to refer to Noah's Ark! My second Times Table drawing It might seem a bit illogical to start with 3 and then go to 2, but…
TIMES TABLE ART - X3 TABLE - THREE'S A CHARM Today I completed my first artwork based on one of the Times Table charts I made recently. I have decided to add a quote or phrase representing the number to the first set, and thought a x3 table was good to start with,…
A CELTIC ART SAMPLER Celtic art Recently I started work on some pop-up projects which included a rotating circles pop-out. I decided to decorate it with some Celtic art and knew I needed to practise. As a result of this, the pop-ups have taken a back seat for a while, as I work…
ONLINE DRAWING COURSE - SELF PORTRAITS For our final project in the portraits module, we had to draw a self portrait. Initially I really wasn't sure about this. I haven't got any decent recent photos of myself and wasn't sure I really wanted to draw myself at all anyway! As a second choice,…
ONLINE ART COURSE - PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN WITH DARK HAIR This was the final directed project of the Portraits module, which Phil told us would be the most challenging project of the whole course. Methods of drawing portraits In the first project in this module, the portrait of a young boy, we…
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…
WATER DROPLETS IN COLOURED PENCIL Following on from my previous post, with my drawing of some water droplets in graphite, here are some more, in coloured pencil. I thought it would be fun to do a whole collection, in different colours. I think they turned out OK. This time I did them without…
