Series: Wanderlust 2021 #33 I'm being a bit more selective over which lessons I do at the moment and I nearly skipped this one because of the drips. Me and drips don't really get on, they always seem like a good idea but then look either too messy or too contrived if I've tried too… Continue reading Wanderlust: flowing rainbow
The next instalment of twinchies created for the Mindful Art Studio Inchie Challenge. Twelve days of creating two-inch-square artworks in response to a prompt word. These are all created as ink drawings coloured with watercolours. The pen I used was a Winsor & Newton fineliner and the watercolours were a mix of Derwent Graphitint and… Continue reading Inchie Challenge 2021 #7–9
Series: Wanderlust 2021 #32 One of the favourite pieces I made during Wanderlust 2019 was in the inspired by an artist theme where we had to draw influences from two artists. Similarly, this piece draws on another artist's style, but it won't be counting in my favourites from this year. The idea was to look… Continue reading Wanderlust: colourful landscape
The next instalment of twinchies created for the Mindful Art Studio Inchie Challenge. Twelve days of creating two-inch-square artworks in response to a prompt word. These are all created as ink drawings coloured with watercolours. The pen I used was a Winsor & Newton fineliner and the watercolours were a mix of Derwent Graphitint and… Continue reading Inchie Challenge 2021 #4–6
Another challenge! I had been doing some colouring for the latest Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge when Amy from Mindful Art Studio announced her Inchie Challenge. Twelve days of creating two-inch-square artworks in response to a prompt word. I decided that I would follow along and make mine as ink drawings coloured with watercolours.… Continue reading Inchie Challenge 2021 #1–3
Series: Wanderlust 2021 #31 I very nearly didn't do this lesson; this is another one from the Wanderlust guest host Kate Crane and the foundation process is quite similar to that used in the Found Poetry page I made earlier in the year. But, I enjoyed making that one so I decided to do this… Continue reading Wanderlust: painted texture
The last of the stripy art cards and, in fact, the last of the art cards in this clear-up batch. As with the crossing stripes art card, this was a case of creating the stripy piece, gluing it to the art card and then figuring out what to do next. I started by drawing swirly… Continue reading Art card: Stripes & Oil
Series: Wanderlust 2021 #30 A new theme and this time it's texture. I love a bit of texture with my mixed media so this theme should be perfect for me. Though I am being a bit more selective (picky!) at the moment so I've only actually completed two of the four classes and, to be… Continue reading Wanderlust: leaf in texture
Yes. They do look like googly eyes. No. That wasn't the intention. But, yes, it does amuse me 🙂 More thin strips of card. This is a great way to use up those odd offcuts of patterned or painted papers and makes an interesting, more individual, alternative to using patterned paper straight out of a… Continue reading Art card: Stripes & Circles
Q. What to do with an offcut of lino that is too big to throw away but not really big enough to create a detailed scene...? A. Use it to practise carving smooth curving lines and delicate straight ones. the carved lino (even though it looks like the lines are raised) Q. What to do… Continue reading Lino print: Curved lines
The only problem with making art out of the odds and ends left from other projects and experiments is that it can be hard to identify some of the components. The pink is obviously left over from playing with alcohol ink, but I'm not sure about the brown — I think it's a scrap from… Continue reading Art card: Crossing Stripes
This started out as a piece of card with some drywall tape stuck to it. I had these flowers which were an offcut from last year's Mother's Day card andI knew I wanted to use them on this art card, but they needed some more contrast. Several thin layers of paint gave me the sort… Continue reading Art card: Bleeding Hearts
I had only done one proper linocut (rather than stamp carving) before I made this one in June last year. I was prompted, quite literally, to do it by the announcement of that month's printing prompt from Handprinted (a UK shop dedicated to all supplies print-related) over on Instagram. The theme was experiment. the design… Continue reading Lino print: Experiment
I think the colour on the background is alcohol ink, although it could be Copic markers, or refills... I have a vague recollection of getting a few drips of whichever on a piece of kitchen roll, quite liking the effect, and then deliberately adding a few more. It was quite a while ago, and it… Continue reading Art card: Crackle Vase
The base layers of these were made from a fabric-coated paper sample that I suspect is well over twenty years old — all things get used eventually 🙂 I left one of them plain and coloured the other with Copic markers. I can't remember exactly what the next layer was made of — I think… Continue reading Art card: Scattered Stars I & II
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