SEND IN THE CONES Caroline, one of my pals on the ArtKula art forum, has gained quite a reputation for her famous watercolour sketches of wheelie bins and traffic cones. She loves painting ordinary things, and it has become quite a joke between us. She reported recently that she'd been out painting on…
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…
ONLINE ART COURSE - THE LANDSCAPE CHALLENGE PART 3, AND LILY THE TELLY ADDICT For parts 1 and 2 of this challenge, please see my blog posts here and here. The completion of the Landscape Challenge! This has been the most fun project to do, and I am more than happy with the…
TWO ART PIECES FRAMED Some time ago I visited an online picture framing site and added a couple of pictures to my gallery there. You can upload a photo of your picture and then customise the frame and mount. In the preview window, your picture will show up with the frame of your…
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…
NEW PASTEL PENCILS, AND COLOURING SOME OLD DRAWINGS Faber Castell pastel pencils My new pastel pencils arrived today, a day earlier than scheduled, which is excellent. Tomorrow I am hoping to settle down and begin the Pastel Pencils module on the art course, which I have had to delay because my existing set…
ZENTANGLE IGUANA When we began the Iguana project in the online drawing course, Phil, our teacher, encouraged us not to feel intimidated by the amount of detail in the drawing, saying that it was rather like Zentangle, a method of drawing consisting of repetitive small marks. I have done Zentangle drawing for many…
