Stop thinking of letters as ‘writing’. Think of them as little works of art. Let go of the need to have everything straight, uniform and regular. Lettering can bring a whole new dimension to whatever you create, from scrapbooks and journals to canvas paintings & fabric art. All you need is a few simple tools, a [...]
Sorry everyone but I have no Internet, just 3G on my phone while I’m out with the dog, so there won’t be a live show this afternoon. I’l be back next week though so see you all them. For today I’m going to take advantage of the oddly summery weather by slathering on some sunblock [...]
It’s been a bit quiet around here lately and there’s a reason for it. I’m busy working on not just new classes, but a whole new site to host them on. The new site is a dedicated classroom environment (not a ning site!) where everyone can feel free to post their work for constructive critique [...]
Here’s the piece from today’s UStream. Stephanie had asked for a watercolour pencils tutorial, and for once I actually stuck with just doing those and not throwing everything at it! To add a little twist (and since I don’t actually have watercolour pencils in portrait colours) I did a portrait in non-natural colours. I think [...]
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Tomorrow’s UStream class as requested by Stephanie is about using Watercolour Pencils, and I’ll be doing this in the context of journal art. NOTE! USA SUMMERTIME KICKED IN THIS WEEK BUT BST DOESN’T START TIL 25TH MARCH. EST IS CURRENTLY 4 HOURS DIFFERENT INSTEAD OF THE USUAL 5, FOR THIS SHOW.
Yesterday’s class on UStream was FUN! Cyn asked for mixed media including oil pastels, which just so happens to be how I do my portraits in my art journal, so I pulled a reference photo from a magazine to use for hair and pose reference and off we went.
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