Create – Martin's Online Sketch Book

Boats and Buoys

I have been working to include collage into my ink sketches. Trying to use the collage element as a colour to make the ink stand out.

I tried following an article from the Artist magazine (Create a collage of costal life, Mike Bernard, Summer 2021issue) to help me understand the process for collage. I’m not sure that the result was what I intended but I love the use of the word Wellbeing in the clouds and you can see text throughoutContinue reading “Weekend Collage Experiment”

Trees in the landscape

I have always found trees to be a problem in the landscape, making them look believable. So I have started to focus more effort to recording them in sketches. This is a page from my sketch book illustrating the trees I see on my lunch time walk. I’ve used procreate to create colourful background toContinue reading “Trees in the landscape”

Nature is Everywhere – The January Challenge

Although we live in an urban jungle of houses and concrete pathways, I am able to take a daily amble surrounded by woodlands, lakes and dirt pathways. These beautiful areas are hidden at the backs of undeveloped land between the various housing estates. I chose a wet day to go out to explore with myContinue reading “Nature is Everywhere – The January Challenge“

Kitchen Stories – January Challenge

Food processorWhen we moved into our house I was brought a food processor, which lived in its packaging for years. I struggled to make cakes the traditional way, hand beating eggs, creaming fats and sugars…until one day when we were clearing out our cupboards, the food processor came out of its packaging. During lockdown theContinue reading “Kitchen Stories – January Challenge”

Portrait – January Challenge

I create a portrait every year and this year as part of the January Challenge prompt I decided to mix it up and use traditional and digital techniques. I learnt how to draw a portrait in a class with Peter Keegan about 4-5 years ago. Before that if you had asked me to draw aContinue reading “Portrait – January Challenge”

Conections

The January Challenge day 3 Connections This was a tricky prompt to think about. Again I produced a mind map of my thoughts about connections. How I communicate my art, what I do now and how I could do that better. This year I brought a Studio level membership for the Painters-online forum so IContinue reading “Conections”

New Year New Inspiration

I joined the January Challenge 2022 this year. I got really stuck into the day 2 prompt of ‘Why I love…’ And this made me really think about my creative process. I love going to Bournemouth, when we visit we do as many things as possible and some are the same things that we doContinue reading “New Year New Inspiration“