Week three of the "Typography" theme brought the next guest teacher: Kelly Hoernig (website, Vimeo, Instagram). This isn't the "homework" for week three's class, though it does use some of the techniques taught in that class and is a heartfelt response to the night before I made it. I was relaxing, watching a bit of… Continue reading Wanderlust: ow!
And here are the final four images I created for the Spring Square-a-thon. I really enjoyed doing something so far out of my usual comfort zone. If you missed any of the earlier paintings, you can catch up using the Square-a-thon tag. #13 Once Upon a Memory Created with: acrylic paints I had a couple… Continue reading Square-a-thon challenge #13–16
Week two of the "Typography" theme saw the arrival of the first of the year's guest teachers: Athanasia Papantoniou (blog, YouTube). This was an interesting layout to create. I am rubbish at leaving white space on pages, especially as much as this; the best I normally manage is to have some colour everywhere and then… Continue reading Wanderlust: create good art
Four more paintings and only one that really didn't work out how I wanted it to. #9 An Epic Adventure Created with: acrylic paint I was definitely showing my age with my answer to the prompt “an epic adventure” — well, technically I was showing my other half’s age as it was his suggestion. I… Continue reading Squareathon challenge #9–12
I was originally planning to do one blog post per theme for the Wanderlust 2019 class rather than doing one for each week's lesson. Because it's a commercial class, it wouldn't be fair to have detailed write-ups, so I thought I'd just do a quick round-up for each theme with a single picture of each… Continue reading Wanderlust: searching
Another mix of paintings that I really love and some that could be improved. It's all a good learning experience though. #5 Secret Sunsets Created with: acrylic paints For this prompt, I figured that a sunset that no-one had seen in person was about as secret as you can get. It's based on a NASA… Continue reading Square-a-thon challenge #5–8
After completing the rule of thirds piece, I moved on to the next bonus lesson in Wanderlust 2019: "Beautiful Backgrounds". This covered ten different ways of applying colour and texture to a page to create a background that could then be built on with other elements. I ended up with eleven backgrounds; I tried one… Continue reading Wanderlust: beautiful backgrounds
I occasionally take part in challenges. I always do the Daily Marker colouring challenge, which is a nice simple "just colour something" type of challenge. And every now and then I'll take part in random one-off challenges if the theme interests me. But I have never participated in a challenge that has prompts. I think… Continue reading Square-a-thon challenge #1–4
As I mentioned back in January, I signed up for Wanderlust 2019. The idea of being exposed to all the different themes, styles and teachers really appealed to me. And I started off well, working through the background material and bonus lessons before the first of the themes. One of the lessons was on composition;… Continue reading Wanderlust: rule of thirds
I had absolutely no intention of making this panel. Unlike so many other things, the idea for it had not been lurking in the back of my mind for months. This panel only exists because I had a bit of a rearrange in my craft room. It was more of a shuffling than a full-on… Continue reading Seascape doubled
Pink! I did say that this last pair of leaves were going to be more colourful and pink is (a tint of) the complementary colour for green, making it the obvious choice. It is also a colour that I have grown to love — not so much the baby pinks though they do have their… Continue reading Monstera leaf pair #3
I liked the black background against the green and the clear embossing on the last pair of leaf panels I made, so I thought I'd have a go at a more subtle version with one of the other Brusho/stencil attempts. Once again, I used the stencil as a mask, covered the Brusho with Versamark and… Continue reading Monstera leaf pair #2
I was catching up on blog feeds and YouTube subscriptions and there was a project that used Brusho, I don't remember exactly what it was, but it got me thinking about whether it was actually possible to use water-activated pigment powders (like Brusho and PaperArtsy Infusions and various other brands) with stencils without making a… Continue reading Monstera leaf pair #1
I was checking through my to-do list and it reminded me that I was going to do a quick update post. It's not often I go back and make changes to past projects — I might add a sentiment to a card that didn't have one, but that's about the extent of it — but… Continue reading Update: resin-glazed dragon
After a really productive August, September just went downhill. It took me nearly half the month just to finish a handful of outstanding blog posts, never mind actually starting any new projects. And it's not even creative block or lost mojo. I have plenty of ideas for things I want to make and experiments to… Continue reading Butterflies
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