CATS IN COLOURED PENCILS Smudge is now framed On 25th April, I published a post about the coloured pencil drawing I did of Smudge, my hubby's friend's cat. I subsequently had this framed, and today we visited Tony and I was able to give him the picture. He was thrilled with it and…
ONLINE ART COURSE - SKETCHING HANDS WITH COLOURED PENCILS This is the second project in the coloured pencils module. We were given three pictures of hands to draw, and in the first instance we had to do this with a normal pencil. It was an exercise in getting the proportions correct. Phil, the…
CLOUD PORTAL A new drawing in my small Rhodia drawing book ("Shoshi's Little Black Book"). I have just started following Miss Betsi on YouTube and learning some of her doodle patterns and techniques. She is worth checking out, as she does beautiful 3-D pen work. One of her drawings was of a tunnel,…
ONLINE ART COURSE - COLOURED PENCILS - VEGETABLES I have now reached the final module in the online art course which deals with specific media, in this case, coloured pencils. The remaining modules are subject-based (e.g. landscapes, animals, portraits). Coloured pencils are now one of my favourite media to work with. I have…
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…
