Month: February 2011

  • My Creative Neighbourhood – Pencil portraiture

    My Creative Neighbourhood – Pencil portraiture

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    Liz

    After dipping my hand back into portraiture a couple of weeks ago with my sketch of KJ, I thought I would poke around my creative neighbourhood and look for some magic pencil wielders. For I know my portraiture skills are minimal and there are some true masters out there. I certainly found some.

  • Sunday Sketches – Seascape

    Sunday Sketches – Seascape

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    Liz

    There is no official Sunday Sketches this week, but I’ve done one anyway, so I’m going to post it. Drop by at Blue Chair Diary for some great Sunday Sketches in the future.

  • Drawing Lab Challenge #16

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    Liz

    This is the sixteenth challenge post for the Drawing Lab Challenge. Grab your copy of ‘Drawing lab for mixed media artists: 52 creative exercises to make drawing fun‘ and join us as we tackle the book together. Details of the challenge and joining can be found here. This week the challenge is… Lab 11 (Page…

  • How I learnt portraiture – Inspiration Point

    How I learnt portraiture – Inspiration Point

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    Liz

    I’m a Star Trek fan. Trekkie, Trekker, odd-ball and nerd, I’m a fan of the original 1965 television show, Star Trek. I have a book collection, a comic collection, all the films and television episodes on DVD with several documentaries kept on good ol’ VHS. I have a model of two different Enterprises on my…

  • Spectrum Square – Ultramarine violet

    Spectrum Square – Ultramarine violet

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    Liz

    A new colour for the Spectrum Square challenge.

  • Beware of the dangers of creativity

    Beware of the dangers of creativity

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    Liz

    Creativity has been my life. I’ve only just recently surrendered to that fact, but despite my denials over the past thirty odd years, it has always crept up on me and taken over whatever project I’ve been working on. This has been both an advantage and a disadvantage. The advantages are obvious, creativity added to…

  • My Creative Plumbing

    My Creative Plumbing

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    Liz

    It has been nearly a week since I have created some art. Do you find that if you don’t create regularly, you start fraying at the edges? For me, usually a maximum of around four days of no creative time for myself will start sending me a touch crazier than usual.

  • Sunday Sketches – Concept drawings

    Sunday Sketches – Concept drawings

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    Liz

    I’ve been building a universe to support a sketchy plot I have. The main star is a human, but the co-star is an alien and when I started profiling him, I found I needed a much clearer picture in my head as to what he might look like. So I got out my sketchbook and…

  • Shadow Shot Sunday – Spots in the shade

    Shadow Shot Sunday – Spots in the shade

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    Liz

    For this week, for Shadow Shot Sunday, since it has been pouring with rain for the last few days, I’m offering an interesting, kinda abstract, shot I took a couple of weeks ago.

  • Drawing Lab Challenge #15

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    Liz

    This is the fifteenth challenge post for the Drawing Lab Challenge. Grab your copy of ‘Drawing lab for mixed media artists: 52 creative exercises to make drawing fun‘ and join us as we tackle the book together. Details of the challenge and joining can be found here. This week the challenge is… Lab 18 (Page…