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
This was the last lesson of the Wanderlust "rivers" theme and we were back with Kasia Avery (website, Instagram). I was working out of order here. I'd put off starting this lesson because it felt like it was going to take a while to do. Rather than just a single page in an art journal,… Continue reading Wanderlust: concertina flow
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #07 For this one, I returned to my default, bold, Copic colouring style, taking extra care with the shading. I wanted to create a rainy feel to the background; I laid down a gradient of three blues and then drew sketchy lines over it in the same colours. I… Continue reading Rainy rabbit
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #06 My other half backed Stephanie Law's Succulent Dragons book on Kickstarter for me last year. The book has a mix of full page and smaller images and this is a section from one of the smaller ones. I'm rather taken with these slightly surreal hares. After I stuck… Continue reading Surreal hares
The last week of the Wanderlust "Patterns" theme and we're back with the organiser Kasia Avery (website, Instagram). It was too much to hope that there wouldn't be any more faces... and as for creating an "abstract self-portrait", well, it's only my determination to have a go at all of the Wanderlust lessons that meant… Continue reading Wanderlust: pattern portrait
