Hello everyone, I finished another Life Book inspired painting which I’ve named ‘From the Ashes’. I painted it to explore the situations we can sometimes find ourselves in, when going through a hard time in life, we can feel destroyed, burnt to the ground in a pile of ash on the floor. I wanted this…
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Life Book 2017 painting – Finding Peace
I finished another life book lesson! This painting represents finding peace within a busy urban environment, as some of you may know in 2015 I experienced a huge change in the peacefulness of my area when a concentrated flight path for Heathrow Airport was diverted to over my home with no warning!!! I am moving!!
New Painting – Inner Strength
I managed to complete a painting over xmas :) it was actually inspired by a Life Book 2017 lesson but looks nothing like it. It features the solar plexus chakra ‘Manipura’ as I do believe that chakras exist, I’ve only drawn a guy about 3 times so it was a good practice :)
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 :)
Bronze leaping cat, Zhou Dynasty, China 400 bc painting
Hi all, I’m sharing some of my painted sketches from a few months ago starting with this one of a bronze leaping cat, I saw it at the British Museum and adored the design, style, aesthetic, the form and colour. It is simply adorable so I decided to sketch it too.. I love this cat..
Watch me paint this whimsical girl with her pet ginger tom cat
Hello again, I am back with the video of my sweet girl and cat painting, I’ve added text to explain the steps taken towards making her and set it to relaxing music. This weekend will be a busy one for me as I have a number of different projects to catch up on and new…
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…
RIP David Bowie
A bowie-esque image I made a while ago…, Bowie had a huge impact on me, seeing him at Live Aid, watching ‘The man who fell to earth’ in a university library I used to sneak into whilst at school, hearing ‘Heroes’ playing during the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics. He is a real icon…
December calendar art journal page
I managed to complete my December calendar art journal page just in time yay! It has been a challenge to work on a page of this size and dimension, being long and thin, but that has made it really interesting and I will be continuing using the same calendar in 2016. This month I decided…
November calendar art journal page
My November calendar art journal page is finished, I used paper cuts and hand painted elements on this page to give the feel of a whimsical winter landscape. It also features my little bird called Fredi who seems to have popped up in a lot of paintings recently. I painted some of the paper cuts…
Phloem 