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
