I love to add new techniques and materials to my art work. Todays 64 Million Artist challenge is to learn something new! An excellent opportunity to delve into my favourite art tutorial book and try out a new idea! Dawn Emerson’s Pastel Innovations is an excellent book full of exercises with ink and pastel. I’mContinue reading “Beginner Monotype Magic – A beginners guide to inky sketches!”
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Drawing to Music with Everyday Objects | Beginner’s Guide to Expressive Mark Making!
What music inspires? Today’s 64 Million artists Challenge is a great abstract sounding task! I’m really going to enjoy this and inspire you to give new materials a try. What Music Inspires – immediately says to me mark marking to music. If you have not tried this before get ready to find a really expressiveContinue reading “Drawing to Music with Everyday Objects | Beginner’s Guide to Expressive Mark Making!”
Crafting My Dream Studio: 3D Collage Art | 64 Million Artists Challenge
Today’s fantastic 64 Million Artists prompt is to create a 3d space of your own! I create all my images in a small back bedroom. I have always wanted a shepherds hut converted in to a studio, complete with a wood burning stove. And that is the subject of todays masterpiece. I am going toContinue reading “Crafting My Dream Studio: 3D Collage Art | 64 Million Artists Challenge”
My peaceful place
Todays challenge comes from Scotland to create a sketch of your peaceful place. I’m really looking forward to this one! My peaceful place is Saundersfoot, in Pembrokeshire. A small way up near Wiseman’s bridge is a little red ice cream van. It by the coastal walk and is manned by a lovely lady. It probablyContinue reading “My peaceful place”
Valuable
The most valuable piece of advice I would give to beginner watercolorists is – Don’t give up, make mistakes. I’m not sure that today’s image is anatomically correct, it is copied from a sketch and it has a lot of errors. But you can learn a lot from mistakes. The bled of beach colour overContinue reading “Valuable”
Otherworldly
Day 12 of World Watercolor Month – I’m just about getting used to the American spelling of watercolour. But I don’t like it! Otherworldy – I’ve taken a different approach to colour recently. I no longer strive to get the correct colour in my paintings. I’m more interested in tone and shape. This does giveContinue reading “Otherworldly”
Flavor?
It is safe to say that I am so far off the doodlewash topic prompt today and in quite a mess. I have reviewed the week’s work so far, and I am happily on a journey of discovery with collage and watercolour. One thing I’ve noticed is how different materials can have various effects onContinue reading “Flavor?”
Burst
I want to push the boundaries of what is possible with Watercolour during July. These are not finished pieces but a journey of discovery! I’ve come to love text in images. This is a view of Warwick castle. It’s also a picture of my new toy, a Lyra water soluble graphite stick. In watercolour weContinue reading “Burst”
Morning Regime
This is another idea I am working on to create a finished collage image of some boats I saw at Tresaith, in Wales. I’m using collage papers that I have made by printing on newspaper and then tearing to shape. The boat and block coloured paper are children’s sugar paper which has become a trademarkContinue reading “Morning Regime”
Another week, another round of Doodlewash
Sometimes it’s easier than others with the doodlewash prompts. Clip was the prompt – and this is a bulldog clip. When we used to use paper and store documents you would always grab a Bulldog clip. I wonder how many of todays children would even recognise this item! Everything was paper and notebooks when IContinue reading “Another week, another round of Doodlewash”
