After spending my ten minutes drawing my stag beetle and then dashing off to attend to Izzy, I was left with a feeling of incompleteness. This feeling only intensified when I started looking at what the other participants in the workshop had come up with according to the same instructions. I was a little flabbergasted. […]
Tree of Cyclones, approx. 750 x 550 mm, soft pastel on black pastel paper I started this piece just before the Creative Colour Challenge started and has been on hold for over a month. Today my wonderful Hubby took little Izzy for me for most of the day and I was able to finish it. […]
Sunset Falling, Deviant Art Muro, by mouse on lounge chair arm Just a quick last minute scribble for the Creative Color Challenge #5 – Lavender Purple. It certainly came out more purple than I expected, and oddly watercolourish. This was one of those paintings that evolved as I painted. I started with the idea of […]
Purple Dragon, DeviantArt Muro, by mouse, lounge chair arm, very, very rushed and unfinished There’s a long story behind this one. I think it is jinxed. Those of you who follow me on Facebook would have seen my many exclamationed post a few days back where I declared I had just lost an entire piece […]
I made a deal with hubby tonight. I’d take little Izzy for the night (KJ was already in bed) so he could have some free time, and I’d take tomorrow morning to do some painting. He was happy with that. So I sat in the lounge with bubs in my arms and played one handed […]
I had big plans for this challenge – sea dragons and serpents. I drew a roaring picture of a sea serpent, twisting slimy, scaly body, ready to be traced down onto pastel paper and brought to life by my pastel pencils (I needed a little more detail than I was capable of with my soft […]
By Moonlight, 420mm x 230mm, Soft pastel & charcoal on black pastel paper I had decided on this subject before the challenge had even been announced. I had been watching a David Attenborough documentary and thought fish might be an interesting topic to play with as scales can be mesmerising (and time consuming, though they […]
Blood Lily, 300 x 300 mm, soft pastel & charcoal on black pastel paper And this is my entry for the second Creative Color Challenge – Raspberry Red. It proved to be an interesting challenge despite me having drawn many flowers before. Firstly, this flower does not exist, I made it up from various references […]
Streaming Headlights, soft pastel on black paper, 300 x 420 mm This is my entry for the first Creative Colour Challenge. The challenge was Sunflower yellow and I spent some time trying to work out what to do. I wanted to use my pastels as the media I am currently experimenting with and they also […]
I mentioned in my last post that a purple flower in my backyard inspired the initial thought to create my Cyclones painting (which is still in progress, painting day tomorrow!). This is that flower. It is a rannunculus (think Poppy), one of the first to bloom in our veggie garden (yes, we have flowers in […]
