Category: illustration friday

  • Paint Party Friday

    Paint Party Friday

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    Liz

    This painting was done nearly two years ago (full post about it here) and was also for Illustration Friday. Done in craft paint before I had any idea of what I was doing and while my youngest ws still a baby so done at the speed of light, but I have to say, despite its…

  • Illustration Friday – Teacher

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    Liz

    It has been a long time since I’ve participated in Illustration Friday, (past efforts) but it is a great challenge to play in with some absolutely fantastic artists participating, so I’ve been looking for some inspiration in response to their challenges for some time now. I finally was determined enough to sit down and actually…

  • Illustration Friday & Sunday Sketches – Swept Away

    Illustration Friday & Sunday Sketches – Swept Away

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    Liz

    I had several technical difficulties with this piece as it is a very new medium to me. I made some dumb-ass mistakes, but I’ve learnt and hopefully won’t do them again.

  • Lesson – more experiments with watercolour pencils

    Lesson – more experiments with watercolour pencils

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    Liz

    I did little more than fifteen minutes of art today. I didn’t time myself, so it could have been up to half an hour, but it was at least fifteen minutes. The new challenge for Illustration Friday was released and this is the painting that came to mind.

  • Illustration Friday – A bicycle in 15 minutes

    Illustration Friday – A bicycle in 15 minutes

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    Liz

    It has been a while since I’ve attempted an Illustration Friday topic, and in the past all my entries have been paintings. But yesterday I needed a prompt to try something out, and I happened to remember that this week’s IF was bicycle. So we have bikes.

  • Illustration Friday, Sunday Sketches and AEDM

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    Liz

    So do you think I have enough challenges tied into this post? ::grin:: Don’t worry, I have a piece for each as today was a good art day. Exhilaration, acrylic on board, approx. 300 x 300 mm. Savour the exhilaration. ‘Savour’ is the challenge word this week over at Illustration Friday. All I could think…

  • Colour experiments – Fallen

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    Liz

    And Art Every Day Month strikes again 😀 Fallen, acrylic on board, approx. 300 x 300 mm. This is a follow on from my first acrylic painting, Embers. It turned out to be in a completely different style (I don’t seem to have a set style or medium, I’m higglety-pigglety), but is still an experiment…