This was a wonderful lesson called Honouring Your Inner World with Serena Bridgeman, I pretty much just followed the lesson with this one, (not something I usually do) as the imagery was so beautiful. Blending and shading with the water-soluble crayon was a bit of a challenge and took many many thin layers mixed with…
Category: Art
Limited colour palette – Scary Vampire Woman
This Lifebook 2014 class required us to use a limited colour palette, I used 3 colours of acrylic paint on some pretty cheap watercolour paper from The Works… the paper started flaking off after a few layers so will be sticking to the Langton paper for heavily layered work. I blended the acrylics using both…
Lifebook – Honouring Your Inner World
I LOVED making this, it was soo soothing and relaxing, I used complimentary colours and handmade stencils for the background and sketched the seated figure with charcoal. I also got to use my new neocolor II watercolour crayons.. :) This picture makes me want to climb inside the painting and sit cross-legged whilst doing breathing…
Lifebook – In the moment
In this lesson we had to find all sorts of mark making tools from around the house and use them to make a layered abstract background. I used a sanding tool, some skewers, a crochet doily, a square metal tube, some lace and various other odds and ends. It felt very freeing to create with…
Lifebook – Quirky Animals
In this Lifebook lesson we had to choose animals to represent how we were feeling, and then make a quirky totem with them. My animals are bird = free, cat = relaxed, shrew = excited, Elephant = I wanted a pedicure :) Sloth = I wanted to wash my hair…
Papercut mixed media collage inspired by Karl Blossfeldt
This was supposed to be an Anna Dabrowska Lifebook lesson using photographs and bits of metal but I decided to use papercuts instead.. The plant shapes are inspired by the work of Karl Blossfeldt, I’ve blogged about him before here
Wading bird painting
I made a picture of a wader bird inspired by yesterday’s visit
Lifebook 2014 – Tree of Life
I found this lesson hard, not sure why, but I did enjoy painting the tiny flowers and plants as well as practicing lettering. The chaos…
Lifebook 2014 – Positive Life Connections
In this class we had to emphasise positive connections in our lives via mixed media, using layering and brayering and a paint over collage technique for the face. I think everyone should have butterflies in their hair…
Lifebook – The joy of intention
This Lifebook lesson required us to ‘be in the moment’ and use layers of acrylic ink, paint and collage to make a statement about the now. I really enjoyed writing with a brush and inks. I made an art journal page with the left over paint.
