I enjoyed the spray ink lesson so much that I decided to make another one, this time using layered papercuts. I sprayed and splattered Dylusions ink sprays onto the page, sketched out the side profile head and checked the placement of the painted silhouette cameo paper cuts. Then I added details to the face.
Lifebook 2014 – Spray ink Ostara
In this lesson we had to use spray inks, negative space and a side profile head. This is Ostara and she is carrying springtime in her hair :)
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! :)
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,…
Earth Hour 2014
I observed Earth Hour on sunday, switched off all the lights in my house and drew a Pulmonaria leaf by candle light. I think I’ve always been an environmentalist, as a child I spent much of my time reading nature encyclopaedias and going on city nature trails. I also studied environmental biology at university. I…
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…
Cute slimline planner
I now have a super cute handbag sized slimline planner in addition to my A5 sized one. Both are keeping me busy with to do lists and journal pages, I seem to be getting loads more done since returning to a paper planner. This weekend I have a huge list of things to do including…
Geninne’s scented candles
Geninne Zlatkis was the woman who inspired me to start painting and creating a few years ago. She is based in Mexico and recently posted a notice on her blog about her designs being featured on a series of scented candles being sold at a large chain store here in the UK. I am so…
Phloem 