I practiced drawing a face using my Lifebook lessons. I can’t quite believe that a week ago I wouldn’t have been able to do this. Thank you Tamara and all the other teachers at Lifebook 2014 Everyone should do this course! :)
Category: Art
Lifebook 2014 – Shading a face with blended acrylic paint
Lifebook week 5 gave an introduction to shading with acrylic paint. We had to make a quirky lady with cotton candy hair, so please meet ‘Sugar’, she’s quite sweet! I enjoyed learning the acrylic blending technique in this lesson and realised the value of under painting with darker shades.
Lifebook 2014 – mixed media collage
The Lifebook 2014 week 4 lesson was all about collage, we had to pick items that were ‘true’ to us and make a mixed media composition with them. I enjoyed doodling on this one…
Lifebook 2014
I joined Life Book 2014!! Hurray. It’s a year long mixed media art journaling course run by the delightful Tamara Laporte, more info here http://willowinglove.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page_4.html The first few lessons explored our word for the year, we learnt more about colour theory and drawing an anatomically proportioned face. Here is my first ever stylised painted portrait,…
Saturday morning 29.3.2014
On Saturday I spent time playing with watercolour paints in purples and greens, first painting some mandala type patterns These patterns came from a recently bought mandala colouring book, I scanned in the images then edited them in Photoshop using the magic eraser tool to remove the slightly grey background, I then reduced the opacity…
The Penguin Book of Ducks
A while ago I purchased some old natural history books on Ebay, including this stunning book of ducks. Whilst researching the illustrator of the book Peter Shepheard I discovered that he was an English architect who worked for the London County Council in the 1960’s. My house is an ex LCC building which I like…
Cellcutz – video paper designs
When I got my Silhouette Cameo electronic cutter in 2012 I bought quite a few svg files from other designers before starting to make my own. Some of these were stunning geometric designs which I repurposed for use in video work :) https://vimeo.com/61560947
The Northern Lights seen in the UK
Last night the Aurora Borealis gave a spectacular display over the UK due to solar winds from a coronal mass ejection reaching the UK. Unfortunately I was tucked up in bed sound a sleep whilst it happened but here is a lovely picture from the BBC Website. Nature is beautiful..
Nubian Treasure SVG Paper Cutting Template
The Nubian Treasure paper cutting template is now available in my store here I was inspired to create this svg paper cutting template after creating the artwork for a Kudu antelope vector file. I added a dimensional mask card with adinkra symbol motifs, which is ‘sculpted’ by gently folding along the perforated lines. I then…
Saturday Morning 22.2.2014
It was a delightful morning here in London so I decided to go shopping and pick up a package from the post office. I live in Bromley which is just at the edge of London and Kent, Bromley town centre has recently been revamped with a few new shops so I decided to check them…
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