Hello! :) it’s been a while since I’ve been here but I decided to take a break in order to focus on a few other things. I think balance is an important part of life, I tend to work all the time as I have loads of interests and am curious about pretty much everything,…
Category: Art
February’s Calendar Art Journal Page
Hi, here is February’s calendar art journal page. It’s a relatively quick one as I was still on my self imposed painting ban :) It was inspired by the half light of February when the sun struggles to peep through grey skies, I also wanted to try to create a mosaic effect with pieces of…
Using a Paperchase scrapbook as an art journal?
I recently bought a Paperchase scrapbook album to use as an art journal because I want to do more sketching and playing around with paint and ideas. I also found that I was trying to complete a finished painting every week without spending much time sketching or having fun in my other journals. So decided…
Painting x-ray style flowers – January calendar journal page
Phew! I just managed to get January’s calendar art journal page uploaded in time :). This month I tried to create flowers in an x-ray style using both transparent and opaque acrylic paint. The technique involved creating wispy smoke-like paint strokes on a dark background of black gesso. I have a process video below the…
Pink Lady is finished
This was a painting made for a Willowing Fabulous Faces class on limited colour portraits. I worked up a sketch that had pretty quirky facial proportions then added hair (I need to work on hair) and other embellishments including a rose and a scrolling design which is now mostly covered over. I started by creating…
Pink Girl – working up a sketch
I’ve been working on this picture of a limited colour portrait which was part of a Willowing, Fabulous Faces lesson. It’s going quite slowly as the facial proportions are a bit quirky and I had to use neutrals in order to attain the values needed for shading. I used a stencil and clear gloss gel…
RIP David Bowie
A bowie-esque image I made a while ago…, Bowie had a huge impact on me, seeing him at Live Aid, watching ‘The man who fell to earth’ in a university library I used to sneak into whilst at school, hearing ‘Heroes’ playing during the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics. He is a real icon…
Watch me paint a woman’s back with angel wings
I made a fast forward painting video of a woman’s back in acrylic and water-soluble crayon.
New painting – a woman’s back
I recently finished this painting of a woman’s back inspired by a life book 2015 class by Donna Downey. I also have a process video to share tomorrow.
Smoky wings
I’m currently on a painting ban until next weekend (as I have to complete some other stuff) but couldn’t help sneaking in a practice of some smoke that I wanted to make into the shape of wings for a mixed media painting. I’ve never painted smoke before and its really hard, but I started with…
Phloem 