Month: April 2011

  • 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.

  • The Creative Drive

    The Creative Drive

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    Liz

    Do you find yourself driven to make something? If given homework at school, did you hand yours up neatly written, but plain, or neatly written and decorated with multicolour penwork? What do you think is the force behind this need to create, make, or otherwise construct something out of anything?

  • Spectrum Square – Really the last colour

    Spectrum Square – Really the last colour

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    Liz

    It has been some time since my last post to this challenge, but I am hoping you are still out there waiting to complete this project. My many apologies for the delay. How are you doing? There has been plenty of time to catch up due to my absence. Will you be ready to post…

  • 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.

  • Tools and Techniques – Watercolour lifting out and scrubbing

    Tools and Techniques – Watercolour lifting out and scrubbing

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    Liz

    As a bonus, I started reading one of my watercolour painting books, and encountered the technique of lifting off. The book basically described how you can lift off paint by wetting the dried paint with a brush and then blotting with tissue. When I experimented with acrylic glazing, I wiped the glaze with a cloth…

  • Inspirations for May 2011

    Inspirations for May 2011

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    Liz

    I would be very interested in knowing what you would like to see on this blog. I’ve been presenting some regular segments here with mixed results. What are your thoughts on those? What do you prefer? What else would you like to see here? I really would like to present what you want to see,…

  • Paint Party Friday – more experiments with acrylics

    Paint Party Friday – more experiments with acrylics

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    Liz

    I actually managed to do some painting today! I didn’t complete what I started out to do, but I have made good progress and a painting is emerging.

  • Sunday Sketches – experiments in hand drawn animation

    Sunday Sketches – experiments in hand drawn animation

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    Liz

    Sunday Sketches… I actually did some sketching this week as part of my current venture into animation. When I say animation, I mean very basic animation. I did the sketches below as an experiment to see how the process works. I have since decided to use another method and another character, so these drawings are…

  • Paint Party Friday – Pastel frangipanis

    Paint Party Friday – Pastel frangipanis

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    Liz

    After a nasty week involving sick children, sick hubby, sick sister and sick me, I am slowly surfacing back into the real world. Very little art was done this week. Very little of anything was done this week. But on Monday, before the worst of it hit, I had a short time to play with…