My nephew made this fab table centrepiece a couple of weeks ago in school. He's really, really proud of it, so I wanted to paint it for posterity.
Dan - you did a fabulous job making this! Well done, from Auntie Tina xxx
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My nephew made this fab table centrepiece a couple of weeks ago in school. He's really, really proud of it, so I wanted to paint it for posterity.
Dan - you did a fabulous job making this! Well done, from Auntie Tina xxx
Since the weather has turned 'nitheringly' cold, all I seem to want to do is knit warm things! Hardly surprising really... This picture is of my current work in progress, a bumpyknit piece that looks a little like a scarf with self-coloured acne. Very odd, but quite quirky and cute :)
This hairgrip bemuses me. For a start, it's really quite large - about three times the length of an ordinary brown kirbigrip - and it's so incredibly detailed. It's more reminiscent of a Victorian antique than its actual origins - the local chemist shop. And - it refuses to be lost! I've had it for years and despite losing many, many other hairgrips, this one just refuses to go to wherever lost things live. It's like it has some kind of homing signal.
I'll admit that I did this a few weeks ago. I just haven't been in the 'zone' for drawing in the last few days! It was drawn with pencil, then inked and I used some watercolours.
Stunning, stunning sunrise this morning. Freezing cold and the grass crunched beneath my feet as I wandered into the garden to take this picture [whilst still in PJs]. This is the Yorkshire Plain at its' best!
The downside is that at 4pm yesterday afternoon, when I decided to do a quick 'chocolate run', it took me a good ten minutes to scrape the half inch thick ice off my car. Even worse, I managed to convince myself that if I was going to go to all the bother of scraping the car, then I'd better get a LOT of chocolate to make it all worthwhile.
The Christmas lard-fest starts here!
This is a little bit different to my usual style! I've been playing around with various art tools in the ArtRage software, and came up with this. It's a digital combination of pencil, pen and airbrush. I've also used different layers for the background and foreground.
I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this image. It seems a bit dark and broody. Bizarrely, I was thinking about Christmas when I did this!
I'm starting to get used to the Wacom tablet now. It's a strange way to create art if you're used to actually using pencils and brushes, but I do like that you can change your medium halfway through a painting and it won't ruin it. And the 'Undo' function is great. There's something very freeing about that, I know I can be as loose and experimental as I like and I'm not wasting good art materials. I think this is the greatest benefit of the tablet, although it's a whole new learning curve to transfer what I've learned with traditional methods to software. I feel like I'm learning to draw all over again!
Another day, another experiment! This time it was masking fluid on this watercolour. I like the effect, but I still felt compelled to add a little pen over the top for definition. The pre-pen version is below. It just didn't look, well, finished...
This is my first quick try at drawing with oil pastels. They're metallic, so they have a lovely shimmer in real life but the scanner seems to have killed the subtle sheen in this image! Shame.
This is a combination of different layers of only five pastel colours, with the earlier layers being treated with white spirits (we didn't have any turps in class today, which you're supposed to use). The end effect was everyone in the class had a great time because we were all as high as kites on the fumes! I'm not sure if it improved our efforts...I now have a headache. I'm going to lie down.
Have a lovely day xxx
UPDATE: Here's a picture of a few members of the Hudswell Art Class - Merry Christmas ladies and I'll see you on January 10th for the next term :)
I might do a wee bit more work on them when the paper is fully dried, but I like the effect so far.
I am LOVING art! It's taken a good while to get the basics, but the effort is worthwhile. BLISS.
Enjoy!
I've had this replica mini statue for years. A friend of mine, Margaret, gave it to me for Christmas some time back in the last century, and I've never really known what to do with it. It's adorned various pieces of furniture in homes all over the country, but it's never really had a purpose... until now. She's fabulous to draw!
I used a very soft Derwent pencil, a 6B I think, and followed the flow lines of the body curves. I love the way that the roughness of the sketching paper lends an extra element of texture.
Thank you for all the comments and emails about my little teapot. I think a lot of people felt that they needed a little colour yesterday. So did I!
Hmmm.... I can feel another loose and colourful picture coming on....
Have a lovely day xxxx