ONLINE ART COURSE - THE FIRST OF SIX SMALL SKETCHES WITH THE INK PENS - BANANA Bananas again! Today my hubby and I sat down together to do the first project in the ink pens module - six small sketches of various objects. We did the first one, which was of a banana.…
ONLINE DRAWING COURSE - OPTIONAL EXTRA CHARCOAL LANDSCAPE, AND A NEW DRAWING TOOL Since this extra lesson was optional, I thought I would work it in graphite instead of charcoal. This was going OK (more or less) but eventually I realised that there were some large very dark areas and I wasn't getting…
ONLINE DRAWING COURSE - FINAL LANDSCAPE IN CHARCOAL To my relief, today I completed the final landscape of three in the Charcoal module. There is a further bonus landscape to draw if we wish, but this is optional; having decided that charcoal really isn't my medium of choice, I shan't be tackling that…
A COUPLE OF CARDS May is a busy month for my hubby and me. His birthday is on the 19th and mine is on the 30th, and in between, on the 24th, is our wedding anniversary and the kitties' birthday. This year they are six! I can't believe we've had them that long…
ORIENTAL STYLE ALBUM - FIFTH PAGE - CIRCLES WITH CIRCLE TO SQUARE FOLD-OUT The next page to come up in my Oriental style album was green, and both background papers featured circles, so I decided to run with this. Although the predominant colour is green, there are touches of dark red so I…
BOOK ALTERING, GEL PRINTING AND DIATOMS A busy couple of sessions in my studio today. Altered book A while back, my hubby gave me some old large format hardback books he no longer wanted, which were perfect for altering. I have never altered a book before (apart from my recent Organic Journal which…
Having done my white pencil outline drawing a few days ago: Today I got out my Pebeo fluid acrylics and proceeded to paint the ginkgo branch. I set up my table with the two pages lined up and taped down in place. I used the white non-stick craft mat on the right of…
At last I have got around to doing a blog post about my DIY foam stamps! I've been promising to do this for ages. Fun foam and yoga mat Looking up videos on YouTube, most people seem to mount their DIY foam stamps on cardboard. This didn't seem very satisfactory to me because…
Venetian plaster/Fortuny-like backgrounds This is an attempt to follow what Robyn McClendon has been doing as a development of her passion for old walls. You can see the video here. I absolutely fell in love with this technique and the beautiful result and knew I just had to do it. The problem is,…
Yesterday I made my first intuitive collage in the Organic Journal. I couldn't think of a title for it so it's just "Intuitive Collage 1." I didn't take any photos at the beginning as I was just sorting through my various papers to decide what to include in this project. Here is the…
