Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #16 I try not to rely too much on the same Copic marker combinations. Mostly I'm quite successful, I generally try to refer to my hex chart for choosing colours afresh each time. And quite often if I use someone else's combination it never looks the same; everyone colours… Continue reading Desert fairy
And we're back with Anneliese Bates (Instagram) for the last week of the Wanderlust "steampunk" theme. I had put off doing the steampunk lessons because, after having a quick look, I realised that most of them were going to be more time-consuming than the average art journal page. Not only that, but I would have… Continue reading Wanderlust: steampunk palette
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #15 I'd say that I deliberately set out to create a more muted, almost vintage, feel for this art card, but that's just how it turned out. Other than choosing the purple as the colour for the biggest flower, I really had no plan at all and just picked… Continue reading Luminous bouquet
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #14 There are ten Polkadoodles "darling buds" flower girls in total and I picked up the complete set when they came out. Of course, buying them and actually colouring them are two very different things and I had only actually coloured one of them before making this art card.… Continue reading Daffodil girl
The guest instructor for week two of the Wanderlust "floral" theme was Shawn Petite (website, Instagram, YouTube). I love Shawn's work and regularly watch her YouTube videos, especially the Sunday Inspiration ones. Lovely textured layers of collage papers, modelling paste and acrylic paint all come together to create a wonderfully weathered background for the flowers.… Continue reading Wanderlust: serenity flowers
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #13 Raccoons are mostly grey, metal bins are grey, I figured I might as well do the whole image in greyscale and just make the apple red for a pop of colour. When I picked the words to go with this one, I was originally thinking that he was… Continue reading Raccoon in a bin
Another birthday card and once again my inspiration for card-making has deserted me. And it's for a guy so, of course, absolutely nothing in my stash is suitable. Luckily I have my secondary stash of coloured images to fall back on. A quick sort through and I settled on this cute dinosaur and his stack… Continue reading Dino birthday
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #12 I have a tendency to end up with a lot of contrast and strong colours when I'm colouring on auto-pilot with my Copic markers: the rabbit in the rain is a good example. Don't get me wrong, I do love that style of colouring, it's just that some… Continue reading Meditation
The first week of the Wanderlust "floral" theme and, as usual, we started with the organiser Kasia Avery (website, Instagram). In an ultimately vain attempt to avoid constantly running behind on the class schedule, I decided to temporarily skip the steampunk theme which has some quite time-consuming lessons in it and jump to the Floral… Continue reading Wanderlust: inky flowers
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #11 I wanted to try something a little bit different with this one. There was quite a bit of blank space in the background and that called out for something other than a simple colour fill or even a grass/sky landscape. I decided to have a go at… Continue reading Green fairy
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #10 And at the top of the bookaholic's pile of hair is a kitty cat. I used the same technique for the background texture as on the coneflowers: a piece of kitchen roll moistened with 0 refill dabbed lightly all over. It's a simple way to add subtle but… Continue reading Cat on hair
Because I just didn't have enough to keep me occupied catching up with the Wanderlust classes, I decided to take Kasia Avery's 3 day Daily Emotions Challenge. The decision was driven by curiosity more than anything else. I love the art side of art journalling, but I've always shied away from the journalling part of… Continue reading Daily Emotions journal
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #09 I coloured the full version of this digi stamp for the Daily Marker Coloring Challenge blog hop back in 2016. It’s a big image and it was easy to get two ATC-sized sections out of it. This first one focuses on the face and only hints at her… Continue reading Bookaholic
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #08 Another Power Poppy digi stamp; this time it's some simple coneflowers rather than a full bouquet and I kept the colouring simple to match. The only thing I did out of the ordinary was to add texture to the background by dabbing lightly and repeatedly with a small… Continue reading Coneflowers
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