So, I finally managed to complete a new whimsical illustration! Yay! It felt so good to be painting with bright colours using some of my favourite supplies. It also amazed me as to how easy it was to get back into the flow of it.. I guess painting is like riding a bike, you can’t…
Kathy Orta ‘File Under M for Memories’ mini album with DCWV ‘Once Upon A Time’
Hello! I recently finished a new mini album using a pattern made by Kathy Orta of Paper Phenomenon, I love Kathy’s patterns and also love the patterned paper made by Die Cuts With A View (DCWV) so chose to use their ‘Once Upon A Time’ paper stack with this album, and it worked really well!…
Better late than never :)
Hello! :) I’ve finally finished the March calendar art journal page and yes it is late but at least I completed it :) I wanted to try creating papercut hot air balloons from scratch using a hand drawn image that was scanned and traced using the silhouette cameo software. I really enjoyed making this page,…
Long time :)
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,…
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…
I’m still here…
Hi all, things have been a bit quiet here of late, but I am still here! :) I basically had to ban myself from painting during most of February so that I could work on other projects. Painting is so addictive, once I’ve set up all my gorgeous colours and surrounded myself with tubes, pots,…
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…
Phloem 