Didn’t have a very good day today. Izzy was teething and unsettled so I had to attend to her, so KJ got bored and destructive, I got angry and frustrated…it wasn’t a good time. So there wasn’t much art done. The only thing I managed was a doodle at the last minute in front of […]
I’ve been drooling over mandalas for some time now, so yesterday I decided that today’s art project as part of Art Every Day Month would be a mandala. I had no idea what I was doing other than I was doing it. It needed to be round, so I dug up my compass set and […]
Saturday I felt like doodling and since the Drawing Lab Challenge I had missed involved doing exactly that, I did some. I grabbed my oil pastels, a piece of watercolour paper and just drew some swirls. No plan, no design beyond the idea that I’d like to play with some graduated colour (I followed the […]
I love making macro photography (photographing the small) as there is so much tiny beauty we miss. I’m very amateur, however, and there are masters out there (and people who actually know how to use a camera, unlike me :D) I have long adored the works of Jenni77 over at Red Bubble. I particularly adore […]
So what’s been happening in my creative neighbourhood this week? Melissa Dinwiddie completed a stunning piece of calligraphic art. Melissa Moss has released her 2011 calendars. Hurry to grab one of these lovely pieces of work as it is a limited print. Kristin Dudish is about to launch her 30 in 30 for 30 challenge. […]
Okay, I flunked badly this week. Left it to the last minute and that minute was smothered by the children and the pile of necessary things that need to be done. But! This week is Catch Up Week. This is the time to have a go at any of the exercises you missed from the […]
Frozen rivulets, acrylic on cartridge, approx. 50 x 50 mm. Got a chance to play with some paint again today (I should have been doing my taxes, but KJ wouldn’t go to bed, so we ended up in the backyard painting together). This is a followup experiment from my One centimetre paintings. These ones are […]
Creative Tuesday‘s challenge this week was ‘curtains’. And the first curtains that came to my mind were these: Blue Curtains, graphite and watercolour pencil on cartridge paper, approx. 250 x 200 mm. I am really happy with this piece. It is simple, but I think it does communicate what I wanted it to communicate. It […]
Here it is, the project that has been taking me that extra bit of time to finish. It is an experiment, well, for me as I haven’t done one of these before. Done totally on the fly. Beyond deciding the pallette beforehand, I just cut and stuck squares of card. This is what I came […]
So what’s been happening in my creative neighbourhood this week? Chasing Purple Dreams had the opening night of her solo exhibition, ‘Emerging‘. Congratulations, and I hope it all went well. There are some beautiful paintings in her collection. My favs are ‘Optimism’ and ‘Flight’. I’m a sucker for good colour manipulation. Juliette Crane was interviewed […]
