Helloooo! Happy Saturday! I’ve literally just finished sketching this horses head in charcoal, it’s the first time I used charcoal and it’s so lush. The background was made from layers of gold, yellow and brown paint. I need to make another of these in black paint as that was the original idea, but will keep…
Category: Saturday morning
Design Museum 2017 – **video
Hello, I visited the new Design Museum in London last month as it had moved from the South Bank near London Bridge to it’s new home in Kensington High Street on the site of the former Commonwealth Building. I initially went on a hunt for images of the Technics 1200 turntable for a project that…
Video** Painting the watercolour mix tape cassette
I made a video of myself painting the watercolour mix tape and there is a special visit to the Design Museum in London at the end. I hope you enjoy it :)
Art journaling in bed
Watercolour and gouache Inktense blocks and a Geninne Zlatkis journal activity page
Elephant Hawkmoth painting
I decided to paint an Elephant Hawkmoth for use in another painting as a collage element.
New art journal page – Seek
I made an art journal page using some of my Lifebook lessons. I used acrylic paint, watersoluble crayon, gesso, acrylic ink, posca pens and inktense to create it, with about 10 million layers :P As the lady appeared I thought she looked like a nomad, which brought up a question in my mind about seeking,…
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…
Drawing faces
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! :)
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…
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…
Phloem 