“Life’s a climb. but the view is great!” – Miley Cyrus This is meant to be an inspirational image of a mountain view, although I think more work is needed to pull the effect off. I felt very Bob Ross (ask an artist!) when I was painting the snow on the mountain. I have beenContinue reading “Life”
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The final frontier
Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny – Stephen Hawking The celestial prompt was a good one for me to flex my artistic muscle on a space themed image. I love the NASA image of Earth pictured from the Moon. It has only been recently that I have found an app that show theContinue reading “The final frontier”
Photograph
A picture paints a thousand words, but a photo, well that’s just a photo… Photograph was a tricky prompt to create an image. Fortunately I found an old watercolour that I was able to use to frame 3 small photo’s on a wall. Proving again how worth while it is to keep your failed work.Continue reading “Photograph”
Run Forest, run.
Being an idiot is no box of chocolates. How well do you know film quotes? Tom Hanks famous line – ‘Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get’, was changed from the novel. Tom Hanks never visited Space or became a professional wrestler, as written inContinue reading “Run Forest, run.”
Busting makes me feel good.
I love Ghostbusters. Is there anything more to say? During the films original release, Director Ivan Reitman published a real Ghostbusters phone number. When called a pre-recorded Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd would answer ‘leave a message we are out fighting ghosts…’ The film is inspired by real paranormal investigators who are alleged to beContinue reading “Busting makes me feel good.”
Simple figure painting exercise
I have decided to make my 64 million Artist posts and video’s available as tutorials. One of my favourite exercises was creating figures from watercolour splashes. Figure painting can be difficult, and people often make the figures too large and unbelievable. Adding a random element to figures will help your work enormously to look moreContinue reading “Simple figure painting exercise”
Devotion
No Crown? King Charles faces the opposite direction on the new 50 pence piece as part of a tradition dating back to the 17 century. Breaking with that tradition was the brief reign of Edward the 8th who preferred his portraits facing left. And he was the King. The transcription around the edge of theContinue reading “Devotion”
Get off the highway, Ben Stone…
A sort of quote from one of my favourite films, Doc Hollywood, and slightly valentines in nature! Road signs work really well as they are simple and present information quickly. I love the colours used. I do find it irritating when hedges grow over signs. I think I am getting old. The making of video
Sugar Tax?
The toothbrush doesn’t remove six months of tartar 30 minutes before your dental appointment! We’ve established a very bad routine of eating kit-kats in the evening. This is usually followed by an ice lolly. I think this started in the summer when it was very hot in England. We are not used to a SummerContinue reading “Sugar Tax?”
Prickly Little Fellow
I’ve been known to be a tad prickly in the office! I have been so busy I forgot to post yesterday! And today is going to be a very quick post! My quick doodle of a Cactus!
